PHILADELPHIA - Axalta Coating Systems has endowed the Axalta Coating Systems Chair in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering in the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. The two million dollar chair will also receive funding from the Office of the President of the university.
The endowment is a response to the university’s multi-year campaign, themed “Lead By Example,” which is designed to provide adequate resources to help solve a variety of real-world challenges that its students are being equipped to address. According to Axalta, it is one of the most ambitious fundraising programs ever undertaken by a public university in the United States.