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Alum donates three scholarships for CoE students

Michigan Engineering
January 7, 2015
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Shivam Parikh (BSE Aero ’05) of Little Ferry, New Jersey, has provided three $1,000 expendable scholarships to the College of Engineering.

The gifts will be allocated as follows: $1,000 to an undergraduate with New Jersey residency; $1,000 to an undergraduate with need; and $1,000 to an undergraduate for non-tuition expenses.

Shivam is president of Visual Image Display.

This story was written by Byron Roberts. 

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