University of Oklahoma President David Boren says the school will receive a combined $15 million in gifts from Chesapeake Energy Co. and its chairman and chief executive officer, Aubrey McClendon.

Boren told university regents Thursday that Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake is giving $2.5 million to benefit the university's Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy and the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences.

The remaining $12.5 million will be a personal gift to the university from McClendon and his wife, Kathleen McClendon.

That gift will benefit the university's Honors College and debate program. It also will fund two major athletic projects, the construction of a boathouse along the Oklahoma River in Oklahoma City and a new housing facility for university athletes on the Norman campus.

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