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LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas Tech University announced that an estate gift of more than $30 million from Richard E. Davis will be received by the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering. The gift is the largest in the history of the college and sets a university record for estate giving.
Although Davis was an alumnus of the College of Arts & Sciences, he chose to use his gift to honor his family’s legacy, including his father, Lt. Gen. Waymond Austin Davis, a distinguished alumnus of the Whitacre College of Engineering…