A. James Clark Scholars Program

The University of Maryland today announced that its A. James Clark School of Engineering will become the permanent home of a multi-university program that provides holistic support to exceptionally talented students with financial need, thanks to a $20.6 million investment from the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation.

The A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation welcomes the 120 Clark Scholars who are entering its signature engineering program — the A. James Clark Scholars Program

“It’s such an honor to see these graduating Clark Scholars carry on my father’s legacy,” said Courtney Clark Pastrick, Board Chair of the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation.

116 high achieving undergraduates enter prestigious A. James Clark Scholar Programs at eleven of the nation’s top engineering universities.

“It’s such an honor to see these graduating Clark Scholars carry on my father’s legacy,” said Courtney Clark Pastrick, Board Chair of the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation.

A great profile of Clark Scholar Mackenzie Sicard featured on the Georgia Tech website

Ezekiel Volk thought Virginia Tech was out of the question. Then, he earned a spot in the prestigious Clark Scholars Program.

Alahna Smith discovered she wanted to be an engineer at the age of eight. For five years, her mom enrolled her in a National Society of Black Engineers summer program for young students in Washington D.C.  From there, Smith continued pursuing her interests at an engineering magnet school, where she found her introduction into the field. Now […]

“I was born in Bulgaria and immigrated here as a child, and I like to keep my culture with me everywhere I go. I love cooking Bulgarian food for my friends here at Vandy,” she said. “My family in the U.S. and in Bulgaria are truly my inspiration.”  

Ishpreet Singh didn’t expect to spend so much of his time in college thinking about playground equipment, but it’s been a preoccupying issue in one of his classes.

The Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering’s newest Clark Scholar, Vincent Bell, refuses to take sides in a debate that often divides engineers of a certain ilk. 

Chris Rowe, School of Engineering associate dean for external relations, has received the 2019-2020 K.C. Potter Outstanding Service to Students Award, which is given to a faculty member who provides outstanding service consistently to individual students or student groups through personal advising, development of programs, or improvements to university systems and policies that affect students.

Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark Scholars Program received an email from Natalie Grandison, director of engineering initiatives at the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation, with an ask: At a time when Clark Scholars are looking for ways to help, how can the Clark Foundation serve as a conduit? […]

When Victoria Lynn first visited campus as a sophomore in high school and set her eyes on Tech Tower, she instantly knew that Georgia Tech was her dream school. Lynn joined the robotics team in her junior year of high school, helping her discover her passion for engineering and further confirming that Tech was where […]

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Tonya Peeples, associate dean for equity and inclusion and professor of chemical engineering in Penn State’s College of Engineering, and Penn State chemical engineering and Schreyer Scholar alumna Paula Garcia Todd recently received Million Women Mentors (MWM) Trailblazer Awards. These awards were presented by STEMConnector, the nation’s largest professional services organization dedicated […]

While pharmaceutical companies globally vie to develop a vaccine to make COVID-19 a problem of the past, a University of Maryland student is working to tackle one of the complications of a pandemic that’s still very much with us. Emily Cho ’22, a mechanical engineering major, co-founded a multi-institutional team of students brought together by […]

First-year student Eileen Liu from the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) did not always know that she would end up studying engineering.