New Scholarships Support EME Students
March 2006
Thanks to the generosity of our alumni and friends, next year's EME students will benefit from the largest pool of departmental scholarship funds to date. This is in no small part due to the three new industry-sponsored scholarships donated this year.
Core Laboratories, Inc. has pledged $200,000 to establish the Core Lab Scholarships in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State. The purpose of this scholarship will be to provide recognition and financial assistance to outstanding undergraduate students majoring in petroleum and natural gas engineering. The main goal of this scholarship is to recruit new students into the PNGE program at Penn State. The recipients of these scholarships shall be known as "Core Lab Scholars."
"Core Laboratories will continue to support the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State," said chairman, president and CEO David M. Demshur ('77 Geosciences). "The oil and gas industry will need highly qualified graduates to meet tomorrow's increasing challenge to find and produce the energy supplies needed for future global prosperity and Penn State will play a large role in meeting these challenges."
"We are delighted that Core Labs has made such a generous commitment to support our undergraduate students. As the demand for qualified professionals in the petroleum and natural gas engineering industry continues to grow, the College remains committed to producing top notch PNGE graduates. The new Core Labs Scholarships will go a long way in helping us to recruit talented students to the field," said Eric J. Barron, dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.
Similarly, two new scholarships have been established to help recruit new students to the Mining Engineering program. The Alpha Natural Resources/Amfire Mining Company Scholarship and the Peabody Mining Scholarship will both be used in conjunction with a targeted marketing campaign to attract incoming students to Mining Engineering.
All told, over $254,000 will be utilized for undergraduate scholarships in 2006/2007.