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IEEE-USA Joins Science and Engineering Community in Sponsoring Scholarship Fund for Victims of 11 September

Families devastated by the events of 11 September will face one less hardship in years to come, thanks in part to the generosity of the science and engineering community. Technical and scientific societies representing more than one million members have joined together in sponsoring the Science and Engineering Scholarship Fund. Financially needy dependents of both domestic and foreign victims of the terrorist attacks can rely on the fund to help them pursue science and engineering degrees at U.S. colleges and universities. The endowment is part of the broader Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund™, which is benefiting from a campaign led by Bill Clinton and Bob Dole to raise $100 million through fund-raising events and gifts from corporations, foundations and individuals.

To make a donation or learn about the Fund visit: www.aps.org/sciencefund.html. Or, for more information, contact Sarah Davis at the American Physical Society: (301)209-3223, davis@aps.org.

Sponsors: 

• Acoustical Society of America

• American Association for the Advancement of Science

• American Association of Engineering Societies

• American Astronomical Society

• American Chemical Society

• American Crystallographic Association

• American Geological Institute

• American Institute of Biological Sciences

• American Institute of Chemical Engineers

• American Institute of Mining

• Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers

• American Institute of Physics

• American Mathematical Society

• American Meteorological Society

• American Physical Society

• American Psychological Society

• American Society for Cell Biology

• American Society of Civil Engineers

• American Society for Information Science and Technology

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers

• American Society of Parasitologists

• American Society of Plant Biologists

• Association for Women in Science

• Computing Research Association

• Council of Scientific Society Presidents

• Ecological Society of America

• Estuarine Research Federation

• Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

• The Institute of Navigation

• IEEE-USA

• The International Society for Optical Engineers

• Materials Research Society

• Optical Society of America

• Research!America

• The Science Coalition

• Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

• Society of Toxicology