ConocoPhillips donates to CU building

BOULDER – Houston-based energy firm ConocoPhillips Co. plans to give $3.5 million to the new Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building for a wing to house the University of Colorado’s department of chemical and biological engineering.

ConocoPhillips plans to follow up a $1 million cash gift made in January with planned future gifts of $2.5 million over the next two years, the CU Foundation said in a statement.

The Chemical and Biological Engineering department will be one of three-CU-Boulder departments to occupy the new 330,000-square-foot building on the east campus. The other two will be the Division of Biochemistry and the Colorado Initiative…