CAS and Polytechnic Institute Establish Thornton Tomasetti Scholarship

      NYU’s College of Arts and Science (CAS) and Polytechnic Institute of NYU recently announced the new Thornton Tomasetti Scholarship, which will support students with interests in civil engineering, architecture and building design, the building industry, urban planning, and building materials.
      The scholarship is funded by the engineering firm of Thornton Tomasetti, which provided structural engineering for the two tallest buildings in the world—Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Taipei 101 in Taiwan. The scholarship will support a CAS student to take a class in a subject related to engineering at Poly and a Poly student to take a liberal arts class at the college.
      The founding principals of Thornton Tomasetti are Charles H. Thornton and Richard L. Tomasetti, who serves on the CAS Dean’s Advisory Council. Both graduated from NYU’s Heights Campus.
      This year’s Thornton Tomasetti Scholarship winners are Matthew Bouton, a senior in CAS’s Urban Design and Architecture Studies program, and Welkinson Robert, a junior majoring in civil engineering at Poly.
      The scholarship celebrates Brooklyn Polytechnic University’s July 2008 affiliation with NYU.


—James Devitt