Arthur “Art” T. Corey, emeritus professor at Colorado State University, worked as a civil engineer at Colorado State from 1956 to 1958 before becoming a founding member of the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand. He returned to Colorado State in 1962 as a professor of agricultural engineering and served there until 1977. After stints at universities in Oregon, Sri Lanka, Ireland, Michigan and Alabama, he returned to Colorado State in 1994 as a faculty affiliate and professor emeritus.

Corey obtained his master’s degree at Colorado State (then Colorado A&M) and his doctoral degree at Rutgers University. He began his professional career as a physicist in the petroleum industry. His research and teaching at Colorado State was in multi-phase flow in soils and porous rocks, ground water hydraulics, irrigation, agricultural drainage and engineering mechanics.

The Arthur T. Corey Scholarship is awarded annually to a graduate student who shows interest in agricultural or environmental engineering and demonstrates financial need and merit.