Civil Engineering Students Receive 2022 Moles Scholarship

POSTED ON: June 21, 2022

Image
Left: Lionel Gilliar-Schoenenberger. RIght: Qasim Akhlaq

Left: Lionel Gilliar-Schoenenberger. RIght: Qasim Akhlaq 

Senior civil engineering students, Qasim Akhlaq and Lionel Gilliar-Schoenenberger, were both awarded a $6,500 scholarship from The Moles Charitable Fund, Inc


The Moles’ scholarship funds are presented annually to academically qualified and deserving students at participating colleges and universities. Recipients are selected by the Dean and faculty representative from their respective Engineering School. The Cooper Union’s faculty representative is Vito A. Guido, Professor and George Fox Chair of Civil Engineering.


"With humility and great appreciation, I thank the Moles for their generous support to venture further into the world of heavy civil and engineering." – Lionel Gilliar-Schoenenberger


“I am honored to be selected as a recipient of The Moles scholarship! I’d like to sincerely thank The Moles Charitable Fund for their support towards the next generation of Civil Engineers." – Qasim Akhlaq

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.