Scholarship Update:

The Ohio Rubber Group has selected two students at The University of Akron to receive the ORG Graduate Student Award for 2011.  PhD Candidates Diya Bandyopadhyay (Polymer Engineering) and Emmanuel Pitia (Polymer Science) each received an award of $3000 at a luncheon held at the Goodyear Polymer Center on the campus of The University of Akron on March 1, 2011.  Both recipients plan on presenting overviews of their research at the fall 2011 meeting of the Ohio Rubber Group on September 20, 2011.  They were also presented with gratis student memberships to the ORG. (ORG membership is free to any interested student).  Diya and Emmanuel were both very grateful to the ORG for these awards, and look forward to meeting its members in person.

The ORG Graduate Student Award was created to promote the academic efforts of graduate students in the College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering.  Each year with the assistance of the Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering Departments, candidate students submit applications along with transcripts and letters of recommendation to the ORG Scholarship Committee.  This information is then used to select a group of students for face-to-face interviews with the Committee.  The very high caliber of the candidates makes the final selection very difficult, but the democratic process of voting is used to make the determinations.

Pictured above (L to R): Dr. Ali Dhinojwala - Chair: Polymer Science, Dr. Alamgir Karim - Goodyear Tire & Rubber Professor of Polymer Engineering, Diya Bandyopadhyay - Polymer Engineering, Joel Neilsen - Sid Richardson Carbon & Energy Co., Emmanuel Pitia - Polymer Science, Dr. Sadhan Jana -Chair: Polymer Engineering 

 

Pictured above (L to R): Joel Neilsen - Sid Richardson Carbon & Energy Co. , Diya Bandyopadhyay - Polymer Engineering

Pictured above (L to R): Joel Neilsen - Sid Richardson Carbon & Energy Co. ,  Emmanuel Pitia - Polymer Science 

Funds for the scholarship are provided by The ORG Endowed Scholarship Fund and from Ohio Rubber Group's fund raising events. Our goal is to grow The Fund to a self-sustaining level.  This goal has not yet been reached.

Donations are welcome and can be mailed to:

ORG Endowed Scholarship Fund
PO Box 341
Bath, OH   44210