The Dr. Lee N. Bolen, Jr. Scholarship is designed to provide income for scholarship assistance to deserving students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Mississippi. Recipients will be full-time undergraduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
About the donor(s)Dr. Bolen (1937-2016) a native of Memphis, received his undergraduate degree at UM and completed his master’s and doctoral studies at the University of Virginia. He joined the physics faculty at UM in 1964 where he taught for 35 years, specializing in nuclear physics. Dr. Bolen was active in the Mississippi Association of Physicists and worked with other physics faculty to bring the National Center of Physical Acoustics to the university.