THE LINK FOUNDATION IS PROUD of its record of supporting doctoral fellowships in these areas of endeavor pursued by Edwin A. Link and also supporting educational institutions in the communities where its founders, Edwin and Marion Link lived. Since its inception, the Link Foundation has provided more than $20 Million in grants to support worthy programs consistent with its mission. With your support the Link Foundation will expand its grants program to advance knowledge in these important fields for the betterment of humankind.

The Link Foundation supports programs to foster the theoretical basis, practical knowledge, and application of energy, simulation, and ocean engineering and instrumentation research, and to disseminate the results of that research through lectures, seminars and publications.

 

At the present time the Link Foundation is committed to the support of these existing programs and therefore cannot accept applications in new areas.

 

Attention former Link Foundation Fellows: It is wonderful to hear from our Link Fellows and to learn more about your research and about how the Link Foundation Fellowship has made a difference in your research, your life, and your career.  Your story infuses life into our mission and we would be honored to feature you in our electronic Newsletter.  Please let us know where you are and what you are doing.  We would love to hear from you!

 

Doctoral Fellowship Programs

The doctoral student fellowships are awarded by a national competition in the following programs:

• Energy Fellowship Program administered by the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College
• Modeling, Simulation and Training Fellowship Program administered by Georgia Tech Research Institute
• Ocean Engineering and Instrumentation Fellowship Program administered by Florida Atlantic University Foundation

   

Other Major Programs

• The Link Foundation Distinguished Scholar Awards are offered to Indian River State College (IRSC) students. Eligibility Criteria: IRSC student with a 3.3 or higher cumulative GPA and pursuing one of the following degrees - BS in Biology, AS in Aquaculture Management, AS in Computer Information Technology, or AS in Electronics Engineering Technology. The award recipients are required to maintain a 3.3 or higher cumulative GPA and must be enrolled full-time to remain eligible for the award.
• Oceanographic Research Projects. Supervised by Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University, these include high school student awards and college-level summer internships in ocean engineering and marine science.
• Link Scholars Program.  Co-sponsored by the Evans Library of the Florida Institute of Technology, this program awarded stipends from 2000-2005 to technically gifted Florida Tech students to evaluate, select, describe, categorize, and make accessible on the Library Information Network (the LINK), scholarly information resources germane to the mission of the Link Foundation: energy, simulation, ocean engineering, and instrumentation research.  Continued funding of this project allowed for digitization of the materials to form the Edwin A. and Marion Link Digital Collection.
• Smithsonian Institution. Graduate fellowships awarded for research in marine science and, in 2022 the first Smithsonian Link Postdoctoral Fellow was awarded at the Smithsonian Marine Station, Fort Pierce, Florida
• Community Foundation for South Central New York. High school student awards in Binghamton, NY. www.cfscny.org

Did you know that the Bartle Library at Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, and the Evans Library at Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, are home to the archival collections of Edwin A. and Marion C. Link? The Link Collections and the Link Foundation archives are housed in Binghamton University’s Bartle Library. Several documents and photos are available digitally at:

• https://www.binghamton.edu/libraries/about/special-collections/research-and-collections/link/
  
• https://digcollections.lib.fit.edu/items/browse?collection=1
• https://repository.lib.fit.edu/handle/11141/1664