Geography Scholarships
Scholarship: Charles Malcolm & Geraldine Vrbka Collins Geology Scholarship
Award: $1,000
Purpose: To provide undergraduate scholarships for geology and geoscience
students at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Scholarship: Peter E. Galli Memorial Economic Geology Scholarship Endowment
Award: $1, 000
Purpose: To provide scholarships to graduate economic geology students at the
University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Scholarship: Albert E. and Shirley M. Belon Scholarship
Purpose: To provide scholarships for University of Alaska Fairbanks students
with a graduate focus of study on physics or geophysics, or with an
undergraduate focus of study in nursing. This scholarship is restricted to
residents of the United States because Shirley wished to honor her late
husband who immigrated to the United States in 1949 and later became a
citizen himself, and who believed strongly that his decision to become a
permanent resident of the U.S. made him a true U.S. citizen.
Scholarship: John M. Murphy Memorial Geology Scholarship
Award: $1,000
Purpose: To provide scholarships to students attending the
University of Alaska Fairbanks who are pursuing, as a senior,
an undergraduate degree in the field of geology or, as a graduate
student, a graduate degree in the field of geology.
Scholarship: The Peter MacKeith Memorial Endowment for Geological Sciences
Purpose: To financially support student research in the fields of glaciology
and glacial geology, particularly in relation or volcanoes and volcanic activity.
Scholarship: Brian R. Zelenka Memorial Scholarship
Award: $500
Purpose: To provide scholarships to juniors and/or senior geology
students. This scholarship is not for the academically elite but rather
the individual with interest, dedication and demonstrated skills in the geology field.
Scholarship: Don Hodges Memorial Scholarship
Award: $500
Purpose: To provide scholarships to juniors and/or senior geology students.
This scholarship is not for the academically elite but rather the individual
with interest, dedication and demonstrated skills in the geology field.
Scholarship: Albert O. "Ole" Wahto Memorial Scholarship
Award: $1,000
Purpose: To provide scholarships for junior or senior students in
geology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Scholarship: David C. Edmunds Memorial Scholarship
Award: $500
Purpose: To support military veteran students at the University
of Alaska Fairbanks majoring in Geosciences.
Scholarship: Wesley K. Wallace Field Studies
Award: $1,000
Purpose: To provide financial assistance to University of Alaska Fairbanks
graduate students for geological fieldwork and research in the general area
of structural geology or tectonics in Alaska. The funds may also be used for
field supplies and logistics, summer or academic year stipends where needed,
sample analysis and lab supplies, and other expenses related to graduate
thesis and dissertation research.
Scholarship: Charles Malcolm & Geraldine Vrbka Collins Geology Scholarship
Award: $1,000 per annual year
Purpose: To provide undergraduate scholarships for geology and geoscience
students at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Scholarship: Richard Grey Smith - rotates between Geography and Arctic/Northern Studies
Award: $500 per annual year
Purpose: To provide funding on a rotating annual basis for undergraduate
students in Geography and for graduate students in the Arctic and Northern
Studies program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Funds can be used for,
but not limited to: supplies/materials and associated with research projects.
Funds cannot be used to travel to conferences or similar academic meetings.