Contact: Phil Hearn
STARKVILLE, Miss.--ExxonMobil is providing more than $38,000 to Mississippi State for support of engineering, business and cultural diversity programs.
The $38,600 grant was designated to four departments of the Bagley College of Engineering, one program of the College of Business and Industry and to the university's Holmes Cultural Diversity Center. It is part of $1.6 million the worldwide energy producer is distributing this year to 88 colleges and universities nationwide to support various academic programs.
"ExxonMobil is a strong believer in supporting colleges and universities that maintain programs that effectively prepare our future employees," said Ed Price, U.S. recruiting manager for the company.
"We are proud to provide Mississippi State with this grant so the university can allocate the funds to further enhance the excellence of those programs that produce such highly-skilled students who ExxonMobil seeks to hire," he added.
The grants allow selected academic departments to allocate the money for various educational purposes--including scholarships, field trips, visiting speakers, equipment purchases, and student-faculty travel to academic-related activities.
For MSU, ExxonMobil provided:
--$27,600 to the engineering college, including $10,100 to chemical engineering, $10,500 to mechanical engineering, $4,000 to electrical engineering, and $3,000 to computer science and engineering;
--$6,000 to the College of Business and Industry's management information systems program; and
--$5,000 to the Holmes Cultural Diversity Center, the Division of Student Affairs' former office of minority affairs that works to enhance the college experiences of a culturally diverse campus.
"The Bagley College of Engineering has enjoyed a long and mutually beneficial relationship with ExxonMobil and we look forward to continued interactions well into the future," said Dean Kirk Schulz.
For more information, contact Julie Lemons at (662) 325-8098 or jlemons@engr.msstate.edu.