UI establishes scholarship to honor Sen. Stan Weaver UI President James J. Stukel has announced the Stanley B. Weaver Scholarship program to honor the long-time state senator whose district included the Urbana-Champaign campus. “There will be six Stanley B. Weaver Scholarships,” Stukel said. “Each of them will reflect the interests and the values of the extended Weaver clan. And all of them will reflect the Weaver family’s emphasis on higher learning and, specifically, the University of Illinois.” Weaver, 78, represented the 52nd District in the Illinois Senate since 1970, after a single term in the Illinois House and a dozen years as mayor of Urbana. After 22 years as assistant senate leader, he was named senator majority leader in 1997 and held that post until his retirement last January. “I am honored by the university’s establishment of these scholarships,” Weaver said. “While I am not sure I am deserving of this honor, I am sure there is no shortage of students who will benefit from them – and that makes me very happy.” Stukel said the scholarship program will begin in fall 2004 and will be funded by an endowment created in the UI Foundation by the President’s Office. The Urbana-Champaign campus, however, will administer the program, which will provide $2,500 scholarships to undergraduates in civil engineering, special education, finance, chemistry, food science and human nutrition, and natural resources and environmental sciences. The academic areas in which the scholarships will be given relate to personal or professional ties to the university by members of the Weaver family.
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