Advancing Knowledge in Simulation, Ocean Engineering and Energy
The mission of the Link Foundation is to perpetuate and enhance the recognized Link legacy of technical leadership and excellence established by the founders in their fields of interest — simulation and training, energy resources development and conservation, and ocean engineering and instrumentation — while also continuing the support of organizations consistent with the founders’ interests.
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.
Doctoral Fellowship Programs
The doctoral student fellowships are awarded by a national competition in the following programs:
- administered by the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College
- administered by Georgia Tech Research Institute
- 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 , these include high school student awards and college-level 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 (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 .
- 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
- . High school student awards in Binghamton, NY.
The Link Collection
The Bartle Library at ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ, 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 ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ’s Bartle Library.