November 28, 2005

Engineering Receives Student Science Enrichment Program Grant from Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Dr. Laura Bottomley presents awards to students from the Haliwa-Saponi Tribal School following project competitions during the 2005 Middle School Summer Engineering Camp held at NC State University. (Photo: Jennifer Weston)

The College of Engineering at North Carolina State University has received a Student Science Enrichment Program (SSEP) award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF). The $131,280 grant, to be distributed over three years, will provide support for engineering outreach activities, including Engineering on the Road, the expansion of the Middle School Engineering Camp to year-long activities, and a newsletter for middle and high school students and their parents.

BWF gave 14 SSEP awards this year, totaling $1.7 million, to nonprofit organizations serving North Carolina middle and high school students.

Dr. Laura J. Bottomley, director of Women in Engineering and Outreach, and Heather S. Maria, coordinator of K-12 Outreach, will serve as the principal investigators for the grant. Bottomley said, “This SSEP grant will let us do things that we have wanted to do with our outreach programs for a long time. Thousands of students in the state of North Carolina will benefit from these funds.”

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For more information about the BWF and SSEP awards, go to this website: www.bwfund.org/.

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