Archives
Four Urbana campus graduate students win FMC Fellowships
Mare Payne,
News Bureau
217-333-0567; mlpayne@uiuc.edu
5/17/2006
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. —
Each of nine University of Illinois graduate students – including
four from the Urbana campus – has been awarded a $9,000 FMC Technologies
Inc. Fellowship for the 2006-2007 academic year.
The annual fellowship
program, established in 1971, honors outstanding graduate students in
business administration, economics, engineering, finance or related
fields. FMC is a Chicago-based corporation that produces chemicals and
machines for agriculture and industry.
The recipients from the Urbana campus are Maria Cardador of Champaign,
who is pursuing a doctorate in business administration; Robert Kidd
of Urbana, who is pursuing a master’s in electrical and computer
engineering; Alexander Spektor of Glenview, who is pursing a master’s
in electrical and computer engineering; and Carlos Torelli of Urbana,
who is pursuing a doctorate in business administration.
The winners were chosen by a committee representing FMC, the U. of I.
and the
U. of I. Foundation.
The FMC Technologies Inc. Scholarship Fund, formerly called the FMC
Educational Fund, was established as the Link-Belt Educational Fund
in 1963 by a donation by U. of I. alumnus Bert A. Gayman, a Link-Belt
executive. A few years later, Link-Belt merged into FMC Corp.
Gayman, a Champaign native who earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical
engineering at the U. of I. in 1897, spent his entire career with the
Link-Belt Co. in Chicago and chose to remain an anonymous donor to the
educational fund until 1973, a year before his death.
The fund provides more than $100,000 annually for undergraduate scholarships
and graduate fellowships at Illinois.
