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Established in March, 2000, the Pasto Undergraduate Co-Op Fellowship provides funding for an outstanding student in the Department of Chemistry to complete a research co-op within the department. Dr. Daniel J. Pasto graduated from RIT's chemistry program in 1958. He later earned the Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Iowa State University and served on the faculty at Notre Dame University. Dr. Pasto established an endowed fund to support RIT's Department of Chemistry with a generous gift from his estate. That endowed fund generates the co-op fellowship which carries his name because Dr. Pasto remarked that the co-op program was a most important factor in acquiring the professional and technical skills required in his career. Funds will be awarded as a fellowship, intended to provide the same type of experience gained during a cooperative education experience within industry but housed within the Department of Chemistry at RIT. A student must have completed at least 90 credit hours of study and hold a minimum GPA of 3.0 for eligibility to receive the award. The student will select a research project to be supervised by a member of the chemistry department faculty. The research project can be completed any time of the year with preference given to summer quarter. Two students have been selected by the Department of Chemistry Awards Committee to receive the first Pasto Undergraduate Co-op Fellowship. They are Julie Leiston and Scott Luzzi. Both will complete their co-op during the 2000-2001 academic year. The James Wilson Memorial Scholarship, established in 1999, provides academic scholarships annually to students in RIT's College of Science. It honors the late Professor James Wilson, who was born in Scotland, worked for a short time at Merck & Co., and served on the faculty of RIT's College of Science until his retirement as professor of organic chemistry in 1976. He was committed to RIT, to its students and to the teaching of chemistry to those students. Mr. Andrew N. Wilson established the James Wilson Memorial Scholarship in memory of his brother noting that "because of Jim's commitment to RIT, to its students, and to the community, I felt this was the least I could do to further his interest into the future by helping those students to the best education possible. I feel privileged to do so." Recipients of the James Wilson Memorial Scholarship must be full-time, undergraduate students enrolled in RIT's College of Science who demonstrate financial need. Chemistry students Ryan Donnelly and Susan Eustis received scholarships from the fund this year. 1 June 2000