(Left to right) Jim Nichols, General Manager Large Motors Operation, Ron Osborne, Vice-President and General Manager, GE Canada Nuclear, Bonnie Patterson, Trent President and Vice Chancellor, Professor Jim Jury, Computer Studies Department.

At a presentation today at GE's Peterborough Office, the GE Fund pledged $75,000 (US) to establish seven GE Fund Ontario Undergraduate Awards for Aboriginal students participating in Trent University's Administrative Studies or Computer Studies programs. These awards will recognize and reward student academic achievement, taking into consideration the financial needs of the individual student.

Ron Osborne, Vice-President and General Manager, GE Canada Nuclear, Jim Nichols, General Manager Large Motors Operation, and Warren Hope, GE Industrial Systems Human Resources Manager presented a cheque from the GE Fund to Professor Jim Jury, Computer Studies Department and Bonnie Patterson, President and Vice Chancellor, for the first of three payments of a three year pledge of $75,000 (US) towards the Beyond Our Walls Campaign.

On September 28th, the University announced that the Beyond Our Walls Campaign had successfully raised over $17 million, including the establishment of over 97 scholarships, bursaries and awards. In recognition of General Electric's contribution, through this grant from the GE Fund, Bonnie Patterson presented local General Electric representatives with a framed plaque.

The GE Fund, the philanthropic foundation of the General Electric Company, invests by improving educational quality and access and in strengthening community organizations in GE Communities around the world.