During the 2006-07 academic year, the ASME Auxiliary will award $104,500 in scholarships.

At its National Board Meeting in San Francisco last month, the Auxiliary approved the following scholarships and the money allocated to pay for them:

• 18 Undergraduate Scholarships totaling $36,000;

• Eight Marjorie Roy Rothermel Scholarships totaling $16,000 for students earning their master's degrees;

• Three Elizabeth M. and Winchell M. Parsons Scholarships totaling $6,000 for students earning their doctorates;

• Three Rice-Cullimore Scholarships totaling $6,000 for non-U.S. students studying for either a master's or a doctorate at universities in the United States;

• Three Clarke Scholarships (half funded by the ASME Auxiliary and half funded by the ASME Foundation) — which go to Departments of Mechanical Engineering to be given to beginning freshman — totaling $18,000; and

• Nine FIRST Clarke Scholarships (also co-financed by the ASME Auxiliary and the ASME Foundation) totaling $22,500 for beginning freshmen.

— Ella Baldwin-Viereck
Auxiliary publicity chair

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