Michael & Pauline Forster Scholarship

This scholarship, established in memory of Michael and Pauline Forster by their children, seeks to provide financial support to students in the physical sciences and School of Nursing. Michael Forster was a Ph.D. in physics (Notre Dame, 1951) specializing in polymer research. Pauline Forster was an R.N. (Meyer Memorial, 1945) who worked in the areas of public health, newborn nursery, and surgical medicine.

Awarded on a bi-annual basis, The Michael and Pauline Forster Scholarship Fund is to provide two years of financial support to a student in one of the polymer disciplines, alternating with two years of support for a student in the School of Nursing. Award selection is to be made by those colleges, in conjunction with the Office of Student Financial Aid, on the basis of financial need and academic merit.