ILMA announces 2015-2016 scholarship award recipients
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—The Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association (ILMA) ILMA is proud to announce that 14 new students will be awarded $34,500 in scholarships for 2015-2016 through the ILMA Foundation. Please click HERE to see the complete list of winners.
The ILMA Foundation and Board of Directors are passionate about supporting future leaders through the Scholarship Program. Since the start of the program in 2000, with member support, ILMA has awarded over $350,000 in scholarships to a total of 117 students. Of these, 75 have graduated from college and 28 are still receiving funding and working toward their degrees. Click HERE to see a list of this year’s contributors.
Three new scholarship awards were distributed for 2015-2016: The Taglia Award, The Elmer B. Cleves Award and the Robert F. Jackson Award for graduate students.
The Taglia Scholarship
This year’s Taglia Scholarship winner is Logan Pack of Minster, Ohio. Pack is a freshman at Toledo University studying Bioengineering. His father, Todd Pack, works for Hangsterfer’s Laboratories, Inc.
James A. Taglia is an ILMA Past President, 2004-2005, and served on the ILMA board from 2000 to 2013. Taglia formed ILMA’s Industry Task Force, which initiated the Association’s signature testing program. He served as the Industry Task Force chair until 2014. Jim’s wife, Mary Anne Taglia, was a founding member of the WILMA (Women of ILMA) Book Club, and a regular ILMA meeting attendee.
The Taglia Scholarship is awarded to qualified applicants at the discretion of the ILMA Foundation Board. The winner is an outstanding student, preferably majoring in chemistry, and preferably from the Taglias’ home states of Minnesota or Ohio. The scholarship provides $2,500 per year.
The Elmer B. Cleves Scholarship
This year’s Elmer B. Cleves Scholarship winner is Shea Stewart of Glen Rock, Pennsylvania. Stewart is a freshman at Penn State University studying Chemistry. His father, Matthew Stewart, works for Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC.
Elmer B. Cleves excelled both in the classroom and athletic pursuits. He played minor league pro baseball for the Saint Louis Cardinals and in the Canadian League. He also managed minor league professional baseball teams in the U.S. and Canada. After leaving baseball, Elmer worked in chemical engineering and formed his own company, Interlube Corporation, a long-standing ILMA member. Cleves received ILMA’s Distinguished Service Award in 2001.
The Elmer B. Cleves Scholarship is awarded at the discretion of the ILMA Foundation Board to a scholar-athlete who lettered in at least one varsity sport in high school, and who is going on to study science and/or entrepreneurship in college. The scholarship provides $5,000 per year with a possible maximum of four years per student.
The Robert F. Jackson Award
This year’s Robert F. Jackson Award winner is Xiaohan Zhang, a Ph.D. student at Auburn University. The goal of her graduate research is to evaluate the importance of roughness at multiple scales on boundary and mixed lubrication.
The purpose of the Robert F. Jackson Award is to encourage graduate students to pursue graduate degrees or a career in tribology by providing the opportunity for them to participate in tribology research. The student must be enrolled in a graduate engineering or science curriculum. The award provides one award of $5,000 to the student. $4,000 will be awarded at the beginning of the research and $1,000 after the report summarizing the research is received by the ILMA Foundation. Students will be selected on the basis of grade point average, relevance of the research to tribology and quality of the proposed research experience.
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Established in 1948, ILMA (the Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association) is the voice of independent businesses who formulate lubricants and metalworking fluids to improve performance and increase efficiency. Our members make specialized lubricants for everything from backhoes to bone screws. Our products keep planes in the air; cars on the road; and the machines in businesses, households and hospitals running efficiently. Without lubricants and metalworking fluids, American businesses and manufacturing would grind to a halt. In an accelerating global market with little concern for proprietary boundaries, ILMA’s singular voice for independent innovation and competition has never been more important!
