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FMC fellowships awarded

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Three University of Illinois doctoral students – two of them from the Urbana campus – will each receive a $20,000 FMC Technologies Inc. fellowship for the 2011-12 academic year. Five master’s students will each receive $12,000.

The fellowship program, established in 1971, annually honors outstanding graduate students in business administration, economics, engineering, finance or related fields.

The 2011-2012 doctoral recipients from the Urbana campus: Arun Gain, civil and environmental engineering, and Sachit Goyal, chemical and biomolecular engineering. From the Chicago campus: Morten Kallberg, bioengineering.

Master’s winners: Mark Agerton, of Chicago, economics; Bryan Bell, of Urbana; mechanical sciences and engineering; Christina Geyer, of Dunlap, Ill., business administration; Alexander Lorch, of Warrenville, Ill., electrical and computer engineering; Smarika Paudel Sitaula, of Evanston, Ill., electrical and computer engineering.

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 with a donation from U. of I. alumnus Bert A. Gayman.

A few years later, Link-Belt merged into the FMC Corp., which later became FMC Technologies Inc.

Intending to provide education and research opportunities, the fund now provides more than $360,000 annually for undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships at the University of Illinois.

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