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Shell Oil Company Foundation Supports University of Texas' Center for Energy and Environmental ResourcesHOUSTON (Feb. 20, 2002)-The Shell Oil Company Foundation has awarded a $20,000 departmental grant to The University of Texas' Center for Energy and Environmental Resources. The purpose of the Shell Departmental Grants is to strengthen activities in specified academic areas in colleges and universities with well-developed areas of teaching and research. The Center for Energy and Environmental Resources used the grant in support of continuing efforts to analyze the data from its Texas Air Quality Study 2000 (TexAQS 2000), which focuses on the analysis of emissions of ozone precursors and the fate of those emissions in the Houston area. The Shell Foundation contributed $172,000 in departmental grants to The University of Texas in 2001 in the following areas: accounting, business administration, communications (journalism), aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics, chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, petroleum engineering, chemistry, energy and environmental resources, computer science, geology, geophysics, and physics. Overall giving from the Shell Foundation to the University of Texas in 2001 totaled $576,463. The Shell Oil Company Foundation focuses on making a difference in the communities where Shell people work and live. In 2001, the Shell Foundation awarded approximately $27 million in gifts to qualified organizations focusing on areas of civic and public policy, community involvement, culture and the arts, education, environment and health and human services. For more information about the Shell Foundation, visit http://www.shellus.com/community/involvement/shell_foundation.html.
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