Thomas C. Marshall Scholarship

The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), has established an endowed scholarship fund in memory of Thomas C. Marshall (1935-2021), Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics (APAM). Professor Marshall's former student, APAM alum, Dick Post (PhD '73), was instrumental in the creation of this fund which will be awarded annually to an undergraduate student in the APAM Department.

Professor Marshall joined Columbia University in 1962 as a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. He became a Professor of Engineering Science in 1970 and was a member of the Plasma Physics Committee where he launched groundbreaking experimental research into the physics of plasmas, relativistic electron beams, and free electron lasers. Professor Marshall was one of the nine founding faculty members of the Department in 1978, becoming one of Columbia’s first Professors of Applied Physics. He was awarded Columbia’s Great Teacher Award in 1995. During his forty-four years at Columbia University, he has supervised or co-supervised 44 doctoral students. During the decade before he retired in 2006, Professor Marshall was the dedicated faculty advisor to our students in the Medical Physics Program.

The Marshall Scholarship will be awarded to a student in the Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Department starting in Fall 2022. To contribute to the fund, please see: Thomas C. Marshall Scholarship.