sentences:  In 2002 a former student and protégé of Adams, MSU Trustee Randall L. Pittman, along with his wife Mary, donated USD $6 million to restore and update Marshall Hall, a former bacteriology laboratory which has long held offices of the Department of Economics.For their generosity the Pittmans were allowed to append a name to the building, and they chose to honor Walter Adams.The building is now known as Marshall–Adams Hall.