UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS
Jack D . Gaskill Endowed Scholarship in Optical Sciences
For 20 years , professor Jack D . Gaskill served as OSC ’ s associate director for academic affairs , where he played a key role in shaping the graduate curriculum and starting the undergraduate program ; he also recruited students and mentored them as they pursued their degrees . In 1999 , he commemorated his retirement from teaching by contributing a very generous leadership gift for an undergraduate student scholarship in optical sciences .
Many alumni followed his excellent example in order to endow the Gaskill Scholarship . These donations help ensure that promising students of optical sciences will have the resources to complete their baccalaureate degrees and continue the great tradition of OSC for years to come .
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