Before an engineer or computer scientist can solve the world’s most challenging problems and invent what was thought to be impossible – they are students working towards graduation. Providing scholarships to these students is an investment not only in them but in our own futures. Scholarships allow these promising students the ability to focus on their classes and pursue the degree they want without added worry.

Gifts from Syracuse University alumni can support scholarships for young engineers and computer scientists and give them an important boost as they prepare to start their careers. A chemical engineering degree opened many doors for Fadi Bahouth ’78 and he is grateful for the faculty, university staff and fellow students who helped him complete his degree after arriving in Syracuse as a refugee from the Lebanese civil war.  Now Bahouth and his wife Debra want others to have the opportunity he had at the College of Engineering and Computer Science no matter what financial challenges they may face. The couple have established The Cedars Scholarship to do just that.

“Without that help and the SU degree that resulted from it, the life that I have enjoyed since then would not have been possible,” says Bahouth. “I hope that this scholarship endowment would play a part in giving others the chance to earn an SU engineering degree and allow them to achieve their dreams just as I did.”