Dow Corning Provides Fellowship at MTU
The fellowship is initially provided for one year to support students in the area of computational modeling of advanced electronic materials. University officials are exploring ways to implement the fellowship on a permanent basis. "With this fellowship, Dow Corning is expanding its traditional academic sponsorship role into new, increasingly important areas that can be described as the 'physics of the silicon bond,' "said Pandey. "The fellowship is intended to enable the transfer of concepts between chemical synthesis, physical models of molecules, and the properties of materials derived from these." Pandey said the gift will also provide Dow Corning with access to young, motivated scientists with an interest in silicon-containing materials and with training in general physics as well as in material-specific scientific methods of investigation. ### 08/24/00-MTN346
HOUGHTON--The Dow Corning Foundation has provided $20,000 to Michigan Tech to establish the Dow Corning Fellowship in Advanced Materials to support graduate and senior level undergraduate students working under the direction of Dr. Ravi Pandey in the University's Physics Department.