Russell Cody of Clarksburg, a retired entrepreneur, has made a $50,000 gift to create the Joseph Cody and Teresa Cody History Scholarship at West Virginia University.

The scholarship endowment honors his parents, Joseph and Teresa Cody, and will provide student scholarship aid for undergraduate students enrolled in the Department of History in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences.

The scholarship will be used in support of the WVU Scholars Program, which was founded in 1987 to attract outstanding students to the University.

Eberly Dean M. Duane Nellis said”significant scholarship aid like the Cody Scholarship continues to strength a unit such as history which is a strong department in the College with a vibrant and growing undergraduate program.”

This is the third WVU scholarship created by Cody. A $230,000 gift created the Phyllis Christine Gango Cody Undergraduate Nursing Scholarship in the School of Nursing and the Phyllis Gango Cody and Philip Vincent McGance Environmental Scholarship in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

The recipient of the gift, the WVU Foundation, is a private non-profit organization and the designated agency to receive and administer gifts from private individuals and organizations for the benefit of West Virginia University.