CAMBUS Scholarships have been awarded to five student employees for the spring 2024 semester. Many talented and well-qualified CAMBUS student employees applied for academic scholarships. After reviewing all spring 2024 candidates, the following student staff were given scholarships:
Katrina Aljets, driver
Adam Heflin, driver
Neil Smithson, scheduling supervisor, dispatcher
John Underwood, student mechanic
Parker Volkman, dispatcher
The CAMBUS Scholarship program, which began in 2021, provides scholarships to CAMBUS student employees who have made positive contributions to CAMBUS and served the university community. Candidates are chosen based on their job history and written responses to an application.
About the CAMBUS scholarship
Doug Couto, a 1972 UI Tippie College of Business graduate and CAMBUS alumnus, developed the CAMBUS scholarship program. Couto and a few pals developed a volunteer shuttle service from the west resident halls to the main campus while attending Iowa.
When UI President Sandy Boyd heard about this study, he officially financed it as a university program in 1972. Following a student naming contest, the system was given the name “CAMBUS”. Couto worked in transportation after graduating from Iowa and has focused his philanthropic efforts to the establishment of the CAMBUS Scholarship in 2021.
