The University of Central Arkansas in Conway announced Monday that it had received $300,000 from Southwestern Energy Co. to support undergraduate and graduate student research through a new endowed fund that bears the utility’s name.
The announcement was made at the newly constructed on-campus Conway Corporation for Sciences.
The money will be available to students conducting research in environmental science, geography and physics.
Graduate student Christopher Robinson was named the first Southwestern Energy/Steven L. Mueller Research Fellow. The Texas native came to Arkansas to earn a master’s degree at UCA and study the prairie lizard with assistant professor Matt Gifford. The $1,500 grant from the fund will allow him to quantify this research for his master’s thesis.
A selection committee of UCA professors will recommend an annual awardee, who will receive at least $1,500.
UCA President Tom Courtway said in the release that the company’s gift shows the value of student research in those fields and “will help us attract and retain the best and brightest students in these disciplines because they know they will have opportunities early in their educational career to engage in research projects.”
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