Graduate Aid
College of Agricultural & Life Sciences (CALS)
Contact: Associate Dean, Dr. Mark Rieger,
P. O. Box 110270, 2002 McCarty Hall; www.cals.ufl.edu
UF Endowed Scholarships and Fellowships
The following endowed scholarships and fellowships are administered by the UF Foundation. For information, check with the departmental contact or the Foundation Web site.
- Agronomy-Soils Club/Florida Foundation Seed Producers Scholarship Fund
Contact: Department of Agronomy
Eligibility: members of the Agronomy-Soils Club who are majoring in agriculture; based on academics and leadership.
Value: $600, six awards - Wilmer W. and Melda Bassett Endowment Fund
Eligibility: 4-H members or students studying dairy science.
Value: Varies - Victor W. Carlisle Fellowship
Contact: Soil and Water Science
Eligibility: graduate students who meet one of the following conditions: 1) studying pedology or soil mineralogy in the department, or 2) pursuing MS or Ph.D. degrees with a course of study leading to a thesis or dissertation that will emanate, in whole or in part, from scientific investigation of Florida soils; preference to students who have academic excellence and leadership ability as indicated by departmental service and extra-curricular activities (such as participation in student club activities, soil judging, and departmental social activities); selected by Awards/ Scholarship Committee of the Soil and Water Science Department on the basis of merit, and, to the extent possible, without consideration of any other awards or stipends a potential recipient may have received.
Value: $1,000 - William C. and Bertha M. Cornett Fellowship
Eligibility: agriculture majors.
Value: varies - George K. and Ruthanna Davis Scholarship
Eligibility: graduate students studying nutrition or any nutrition-related area at UF; recipients may include graduate students studying human or animal nutrition in IFAS, medicine, or other related fields.
Value: varies - Davidson Graduate Travel Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: agriculture majors.
Deadline: 15 Nov for spring travel, 15 may for fall travel
Value: $300 domestic, $650 international - James and Margaret Gahan Scholarship Fund
Contact: Entomology and Nematology
Eligibility: superior undergraduate scholars admitted to graduate programs in entomology.
Value: $12,500 plus tuition waiver - J. R. Greenman Memorial Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: junior, senior, or graduate food and resource economics majors; also, academic merit, professional potential, leadership ability and financial need.
Value: varies - Homer and Dolly Hand Fellowship Fund
Eligibility: graduate students who are supervised by a faculty member at the IFAS Everglades Research and Education Center.
Value: varies - Paul R. Harris Fund
Eligibility: agronomy majors.
Deadline: October 21
Value: up to $500 and a plaque - Philip L. Herdon Endowment in Economics
Eligibility: graduate students studying citrus-related economics in food and resource economics on campus or through a distance education program; must maintain a miniumum 3.0 GPA.
Value: $1,000 - Elton Hinton Memorial Scholarship Fund
Contact: Agricultural Education and Communication
Eligibility: graduate students in the Department of Agricultural Education and Communication; outstanding scholarship, leadership, and professional potential.
Value: varies - Hunt Brothers Endowment for Fellowship in Citrus Research & Education, Lake Alfred
Contact: Agricultural Education and Communication
Eligibility: graduate students.
Value: $300 per semester, spring and fall, for research and study of citrus - Harold E. Kendall, Sr., Endowed Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: graduate students studying subtropical fruit with an emphasis on limes, avocados, and mangoes, including their production and marketing.
Deadline: July
Value: $2000 - Calvin L. Korf Turfgrass Research Fund
Eligibility: students pursuing turfgrass studies through UF's Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center.
Value: varies - Pauline O. Lawrence Fellowships Endowment
Contact: Entomology and Nematology
Eligibility: master's or Ph.D. students in insect physiology and biochemistry in the Entomology and Nematology Department; consideration to students from Caribbean.
Value: varies - Fountain H. May, Sr. Scholarship/Fellowship Fund
Contact: North Florida Research and Education Center,155 Research Road, Quincy, FL 32351-5677; Phone: (850) 875-7100; Email: adw@ifas.ufl.edu
Eligibility: students pursuing studies at UF's North Florida Research and Education Center in Quincy, Fla.
Value: varies - Milk Bottle Promotion Fund
Contact: Food Science and Human Nutrition
Eligibility: students enrolled in or accepted into a graduate program in food science.
Value: varies - Cope and Edna Newbern Fund
Contact: Agricultural Education and Communication
Eligibility: graduate students in any option in agricultural education and communication; scholarship, leadership, and professional potential.
Value: varies - Robert H. Olson Graduate Fellowship Fund
Contact: Animal Sciences
Eligibility: students enrolled in or accepted into a graduate program in food science.
Value: varies - S. Polston Memorial Fund
Eligibility: graduate students in soil and water science, based on academic and research efforts in soil and water science and in conservation of natural resources.
Value: $1,000 - William K. “Bill” Robertson Endowment Fund
Eligibility: outstanding graduate students in soil and water sciences.
Value: $1,000 - J. E. Ross International Travel Award Fund
Contact: Food and Resource Economics
Eligibility: graduate students in Food and Resource Economics.
Value: varies - John W. Sites Memorial Graduate Scholarship
Contact: Horticultural Sciences
Eligibility: outstanding students in fruit crops; based on scholarship and leadership.
Value: $500 - Don M. Smith Marine Scholarship/Fellowship Fund
Contact: Dr. William Lindberg, P.O. Box 110500; http://fishweb.ifas.ufl.edu
Eligibility: graduate students in the fisheries and aquatic sciences engaged in research related to sustainable marine fisheries.
Value: varies - William F. Ward Memorial Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: outstanding juniors majoring in citrus studies; graduate or undergraduate students in an area of horticulture; academic record and potential of student.
Value: $1,200 - Wedgworth Graduate Fellowship
Eligibility: graduate students working at the Everglades Research and Education Center at Belle Glade.
Value: varies - Jennings Scholarship
Eligibility: incoming students, excellent academics, professional potential, financial need, leadership skills, and extracurricular activities
Value: new undergraduates, $500; new graduate students, $1,000
Scholarships
- Agricultural Women's Club Scholarship
Eligibility: female U.S. citizen enrolled in or accepted to graduate school in any CALS major; minimum 3.5 GPA.
Deadline: late February; applications available in 2002 McCarty
Value: $500 - American Dietetic Association Scholarship
Contact: Food Science and Human Nutrition
Eligibility: upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, or students in internships or AP4 programs majoring in dietetics for study leading to scientific and educational advancement in dietetics; must be members of the Association; forms available from FSHN Undergraduate Student Services Office; applications must be postmarked by February 15.
Value: varies, applicants notified mid-June - Award for Graduate Student Excellence in Soil and Water Science
Contact: Soil and Water Science Department
Eligibility: demonstrated leadership, academic achievement, thesis or dissertation quality, research achievement, and personality.
Value: $250 - Charles E. Dean/Fred Hull Award
Contact: Agronomy Department
Eligibility: outstanding agronomy student.
Deadline: December 13
Value: $300 to $500 - Florida Dietetic Association
Contact: Food Science and Human Nutrition
Eligibility: dietetic students; ADA membership.
Deadline: March each year
Value: $600–$1500 - Florida Federation of Garden Clubs Scholarship in memory of H. Harold Hume
Contact: Environmental Horticulture
Eligibility: environmental horticulture students.
Value: $1,500 minimum - Earl Wilmont Hartt Scholarship
Contact: Food Science and Human Nutrition
Eligibility: full-time students; based on scholarship and leadership.
Value: $250–$1,000 - A. S. Herlong Graduate Fellowship
Eligibility: students in agricultural and biological engineering, botany, entomology and nematology, food and resource economics, food science and human nutrition, horticultural science (fruit crops), microbiology and cell science, plant pathology, and soil and water science; academic merit, research plans, leadership ability, and professional potential.
Deadline: July
Value: $2500 - Lena B. Hughes Estate
Contact: Horticultural Sciences
Eligibility: students majoring in the fruit crops curriculum; scholarship, leadership, and interest in Florida citrus industry.
Value: $2,500 and a plaque - J. N. Joiner Scholarship
Contact: Environmental Horticulture
Eligibility: environmental horticulture students with expressed interest in entering environmental horticulture industry upon graduation.
Value: varies - J. N. Joiner Graduate Student Scientific Presentation Scholarship
Contact: Environmental Horticulture
Eligibility: students presenting papers at scientific meetings.
Value: $300 toward meeting travel expenses - Richard F. Matthews Graduate Scholarship
Contact: Food Science and Human Nutrition
Eligibility: scholarship, professional potential, and research proposal to accompany application.
Value: $1,500/year - Poultry Science Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Contact: Dairy and Poultry Science
Eligibility: nominated students bringing most credit to poultry science discipline and poultry industry; grades, participation, and leadership in Poultry Science Club; presentation/publication of scientific papers while at UF; UF activities.
Value: $100 - Roger Rottman Memorial Scholarship
Contact: Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Eligibility: upper-level undergraduate or graduate students in fisheries or aquaculture.
Value: varies - Muriel Rumsey Foundation Fellowship
Contact: Graduate Coordinator, Horticultural Science
Eligibility: horticultural science students admitted to candidacy for a Ph.D.
Value: $2,000 - William Paul Shelley, Sr., Memorial Fund in Forestry
Contact: School of Forest Resources and Conservation
Eligibility: graduate students working at the Everglades Research Education Center at Belle Glade.
Value: $5,000 - Soil and Water Science Department Scholarship Award
Contact: Soil and Water Sciences
Eligibility: outstanding soil science students.
Value: $100 - Frederick B. Smith Scholarship
Contact: Soil and Water Sciences
Eligibility: outstanding undergraduates in soil and water science; graduate students considered if no qualified undergraduates.
Value: $500 - Vance Publishing Corp. Scholarship
Eligibility: fruit crops majors; scholarship, leadership, interest in Florida citrus industry.
Value: $1,000 - F. A. Woods Awards
Eligibility: academic excellence in graduate student research in plant pathology.
Value: $500, two awards - Florida Wildlife Federation Scholarship
Eligibility: undergraduate and graduate students; merit-based; keen interest in Florida wildlife; professional promise with intent to pursue a career in wildlife ecology or conservation in Florida after graduation.
Value: up to $500, awarded to both undergraduate and graduate students - African Safari Club of Florida Scholarship
Eligibility: wildlife ecology and conservation majors, U.S. citizenship, Florida residency, supportive of sport hunting as a valid form of recreation, interested in a wildlife ecology/ management career, financial need, academic performance and professional potential.
Value: $2,500, one award to an upperdivision senior or junior, two to graduate majors