Penn State Mining Engineering Students Receive Gimme Foundation Scholarships
May 2008
Congratulations to Penn State Mining Engineering students Matt Mowry and Vance Rumbaugh, who received $3,000 scholarships from The Gimme Foundation, Inc. The Gimme Foundation scholarship initiative is designed to help offset the high costs of education and to bolster the Mining Engineering profession. Requirements for the scholarship include a demonstrated financial need, good class standing, a recommendation from a professor or supervisor in a related field of study and a 500 word essay that describes the student’s career goals. The Pittsburgh Section of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME) assisted the Gimme Foundation in contacting students about the scholarship at both Penn State and West Virginia Universities. Dr. R. Larry Grayson, Undergraduate Program Officer in Mining Engineering, Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, at Penn State provided oversight and assistance to Matt and Vance in the preparation of the scholarship materials.
The scholarships were presented to Matt and Vance on May 5, 2008 by James J. Bryja, President of The Gimme Foundation, Inc. and Senior Vice President-Operations, Foundation Coal Corporation.(see photo). The Gimme Foundation intends to award additional scholarships for the spring semester of 2009. Scholarship application forms and instructions will be forwarded to the Mining Engineering units at both the West Virginia and Penn State Universities. A call for applicants and scholarship materials will also be posted on the Pittsburgh Section web site at www.smepittsburgh.org.