A new scholarship has been established at Butler Community College by Dale Corson, a Kansas native and the former president of Cornell University.

Corson established the Margaret and Burt Bowles Scholarship to honor his younger sister and her husband, a former student at Butler who later became one of the school's trustees. This week the Bowles decided to match Corson's funds for the scholarship, which is for or math and science majors.

"We're interested in the academic side of the college and believe there should be a greater push in science and math," Burt Bowlus said in a release.

Before starting a teaching career at Cornell, a Ivy League school located in Ithaca, N.Y., Corson helped a group of scientists at MIT develop air-to-ground radar during World War II. He retired as Cornell's president in 1977.

Corson is a graduate of the University of Kansas, as are both the Bowles.

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