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Fulbright College Department Scholarships

FOR NEW FRESHMEN

ANTHROPOLOGY
Contact: Jerry Rose, jcrose@uark.edu, or Carl Hitt, 575-2508, chitt@uark.edu

Robert L. Stigler, Jr. Scholarship. Residents of Jefferson County, Arkansas, interested in archeology.

ART
Contact: Nan Lawler, nlawler@uark.edu, 575-5202

Okerbloom Awards. Incoming freshmen are eligible for Okerblooms, typically four awards of $500 to incoming feshmen and one scholarship of $1,000 to an incoming MFA student.


CHEMISTRY
Contact: Bill Durham, bdurham@uark.edu, 575-4601

DuPont Chemistry Scholarship. Chemistry/biochemistry majors; freshmen; ACT scores, letters of recommendation. Renewable for 8 semesters with 3.0 GPA.
Jacob & Wilma Sacks Scholarship. Chemistry/biochemistry majors; freshman; academic ability; ACT; letters of reference; 4-year renewable; 3.0 GPA.
Samuel & Betty Siegel Scholarship. Chemistry majors; freshman; high school transcript; ACT/SAT; recommendations; renewable; 3.0 GPA.


 

DRAMA
Contact: Andy Gibbs, dagibbs@uark.edu, 575-2953

Wally & Mary Ingalls Drama Scholarship/Award. Drama majors
George & Portia Kernodle Unitrust Scholarship. Drama students; actively engaged in his/her art or craft; contribute to drama program; academic performance.
Theodora M. Hallin Endowed Memorial. Speech-communication or theatre arts majors; Fayetteville High School graduates; 3.0 GPA; active in theatrical productions or debate; community activities; financial need.



HISTORY
Contact: Jeannie Whayne, jwhayne@uark.edu, 575-3001

David Edwards Scholarship.
History majors, financial need Mary Dengler Hudgins Arkansas History Research Fund. Graduate students in history performing research in Arkansas history.
Mary D. Hudgins Endowed Scholarship. Undergraduate or graduate history majors with a special interest in Arkansas history.
Sidney A. Moncrief Scholarship. History majors or minors, interest in Black history, academic ability, entering students, four-year renewable.
George William Ray Memorial Award Fund. History majors.



MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
Contact: Gloria Young, gyoung@uark.edu, 575-3351

John & Faye Keesee Award.
Undergraduate mathematics major; high school GPA, high ACT.
Davis P. Richardson Scholarship. Mathematics majors.


MUSIC
Many scholarships are available for incoming freshman, both music majors and non-majors, and are generally linked to ensemble participation.
   For music scholarships (voice, strings, piano, some winds), contact Stephen Gates, sgates@uark.edu, 575-4701.
   For band scholarships, for students who participate in the Razorback Marching Band, contact Connie Vick, cvick@uark.edu,
   575-4100.
   For applications and more information on music or band scholarships, visit the department Web site.

FOR NEW TRANSFER STUDENTS

ANTHROPOLOGY
Contact: Jerry Rose, jcrose@uark.edu, or Carl Hitt, 575-2508, chitt@uark.edu


Robert L. Stigler, Jr. Scholarship. Residents of Jefferson County, Arkansas, interested in archeology.


DRAMA
Contact: Andy Gibbs, dagibbs@uark.edu, 575-2953

Wally & Mary Ingalls Drama Scholarship/Award. Drama majors
George & Portia Kernodle Unitrust Scholarship. Drama students; actively engaged in his/her art or craft; contribute to drama program; academic performance.


HISTORY
Contact: Jeannie Whayne, jwhayne@uark.edu, 575-3001

David Edwards Scholarship.
History majors, financial need
Mary D. Hudgins Endowed Scholarship. Undergraduate or graduate history majors with a special interest in Arkansas history.
Sidney A. Moncrief Scholarship. History majors or minors, interest in Black history, academic ability, entering students, four-year renewable.
George William Ray Memorial Award Fund. History majors.


FOR CURRENTLY ENROLLED STUDENTS

ANTHROPOLOGY
Contact: Jerry Rose, jcrose@uark.edu, or Carl Hitt, 575-2508, chitt@uark.edu


Robert L. Stigler, Jr. Scholarship. Residents of Jefferson County, Arkansas, interested in archeology.
The Samuel C. Dellinger, Margaret J. and Michael P. Hoffman Scholarship. Annual award to outstanding undergraduate major.
Richard G. Condon Prize. Outstanding student in cultural anthropology.
Davis Internship in Public Archeology. Graduate student pursuing an internship in public archeology.


ART
Contact: Lynn Jacobs, 575-5202, ljacobs@uark.edu

Bedford Camera Prize and Collier Photo Prize. Bedford Camera awards $125 in photo supplies/services, while Collier Photo gives $100 in photo supplies and services. No restrictions.
David Durst Art Award.
One award of $500 to a continuing MFA student, based on art ability and financial need.
Blanche Elliott Award. Given for the best art history paper.
Blanche Elliott Fund.
Art students; sophomores, juniors, or seniors; aptitude in the creative arts.
Tom Turpin and Neppie Conner Prizes. Turpin prize to a rising sophomore; Conner prize to a rising junior.

Note: One competition is held each year for all awards and scholarships, except the incoming freshman, MFA, and David Durst graduate awards. Students do not need to apply for a particular award; students with the most votes from all entries will receive the highest awards.


BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Contact: Kim Smith, 575-3251, kgsmith@uark.edu

David Causey Prize for Graduate Study.
M.S. or Ph.D. students; not renewable.
Dr. Allan Arthur Gilbert Sr. Endowed Scholarship. Pre-med majors; academic standing; renewable.
William M. Harris Memorial Pre-Med Award. Pre-med students; outstanding seniors; accepted to medical school; financial need; active in Alpha Epsilon Delta.
Mary & Leta Potter Endowed Scholarship. Pre-medical majors; Arkansas residents; academic achievement, financial need.
Delbert Swartz Memorial Award. Majors in botany/microbiology/bacteriology; outstanding senior.


CHEMISTRY
Contact: Bill Durham, 575-4601, bdurham@uark.edu

Barbara Wertheim Campbell Award. Chemistry majors; seniors; undergraduate work completed at Fayetteville campus, 3.5 GPA.
A.W. Cordes Teaching Award. Chemistry/biochemistry majors, graduate assistants; student course evaluations.
Arthur Fry Scholarship Fund. Chemistry/biochemistry majors; sophomores, juniors, or seniors; 3.0 GPA preference: planning to teach or conduct research; financial need.
Coulter Jones Scholarship. Chemistry/biochemistry majors; Arkansas residents (native Arkansans); financial need; preference: undergraduate students.
Frederick A. Kekule Award. Chemistry majors; outstanding sophomores; emphasis on organic chemistry; scholarship; professional promise.
Kathy Noland Chemistry Award. Freshman/outstanding laboratory work.
William K. Noyce Scholarship. Chemistry/biochemistry majors; academic achievement; financial need; active in department and professional organization.
Jacob Sacks Award. Chemistry majors.
Jacob & Wilma Sacks Scholarship. Chemistry/biochemistry majors; freshman; academic ability; ACT; letters of reference; 4-year renewable; 3.0 GPA.


COMMUNICATION
Contact: Myria Allen, myria@uark.edu, 575-4601

Richard S. Arnold 1st Amendment Research Excellence Award. Honors award for 1st Amendment studies and research.
M. Blair Hart Scholarship. Communication majors; scholarship, leadership, school activities, college service, financial need.


DRAMA
Contact: Andy Gibbs, dagibbs@uark.edu, 575-2953

Wally & Mary Ingalls Drama Scholarship/Award. Drama majors
George & Portia Kernodle Unitrust Scholarship. Drama students; actively engaged in his/her art or craft; contribute to drama program; academic performance.


ENGLISH
Contact: Lyna Lee Montgomery, montgo@uark.edu, 575-4301

Baucum-Fulkerson Memorial. Competitive award, fiction or drama.
Claude W. Faulkner Endowed Award. English majors, outstanding graduate students, teaching and academic performance.
Ben Kimpel Memorial. English majors, graduate students, literary scholarship, GPA.
Felix Christopher McKean Memorial Award. English students, prizes for literary works.
Blair Rouse Scholarship. English majors, graduate students, superior intellectual capability, financial need.
Vance & Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship. English majors in language, literature or folklore; academic achievement; leadership, graduate students.
Lily Peter Creative Writing Fund. English students, graduate creative writing majors, achievement, promise.


FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Contact: Diane Ogden, dogden@uark.edu, 575-2951

Lisa Huffington Duque Award. Foreign language majors in Spanish, study abroad.
Holly Turner Meeks Endowed Scholarship. Foreign language students studying abroad.
Holly Turner Meeks Endowed Scholarship. Foreign language major or minor in Spanish, study abroad.
Cecilia Russell Memorial. Foreign language majors or minors, French; study abroad.


GEOSCIENCES
Contact: Doy Zachry, dzachry@uark.edu, 575-3355

W. Joe Edwards, Jr. Scholarship. Geology majors; geological studies.
Dan Gabor Memorial Field Camp Scholarship. Undergraduate or graduate geology students, academic potential, financial need, participate in geology field camp.
Mark & Theresa Gentry Land & Water Resources Scholarship. Undergraduate or graduate geology majors, full-time, demonstrate academic achievement, potential leadership and financial need; interest in land and water resources management; renewable; preference given to Arkansas residents.
Jack D. Mussett Scholarship. Undergraduate or graduate geology majors, academic achievement, leadership, renewable for four years.
Vernon Peppard Scholarship. Undergraduate or graduate geology majors, academic achievement, financial need.
James Harrison Quinn Memorial Scholarship. Undergraduate or graduate geology majors, academic achievement, financial need.
James Elliot Sherman Loan & Scholarship Fund. Geology majors, undergraduate scholarships and graduate study loans, academic record and financial need.
Robert L. Tucker Memorial Endowed Undergraduate Scholarship. Geology majors, academic ability and financial need.


HISTORY
Contact: Jeannie Whayne, jwhayne@uark.edu, 575-3001

David Edwards Scholarship.
History majors, financial need
Arkansas History Research Fund. Graduate students in history performing research in Arkansas history.
Mary Dengler Hudgins Arkansas History Research Fund. Graduate students in history performing research in Arkansas history.
Mary D. Hudgins Endowed Scholarship. Undergraduate or graduate history majors with a special interest in Arkansas history.
Sidney A. Moncrief Scholarship. History majors or minors, interest in Black history, academic ability, entering students, four-year renewable.
George William Ray Memorial Award Fund. History majors.


HONORS PROGRAM
Contact: Mary Ellen Hartford, mhartfo@uark.edu, 575-2509

Harold D. Hantz Honors Award. Highest ranking graduates in program.



JOURNALISM

Contact: Martha Langley, langley@uark.edu, 575-3601

Wanda Belzung Scholarship. Journalism majors pursuing a career in advertising.
A.W. Blake Journalism Scholarship Journalism majors, undergraduate students, financial need, merit
Ernie Deane Journalism Award. Journalism majors.
Edsel Ford Journalism Scholarship. Journalism majors, preference given to financial need, merit.
James Jones Memorial Scholarship. Journalism majors. Richard Koch Memorial Scholarship Journalism majors, preference given to older journalism majors and/or veterans.
Jim Morriss Journalism Scholarship
. Journalism majors, preference in print, academic leadership, junior or senior.
Memphis Gridiron Larry Williams Endowed Scholarship. Journalism students, preference from Memphis, TN or mid-South, financial need and merit.
John Rosso Endowed Scholarship. Journalism majors.
Joseph A. Thalheimer Scholarship. Journalism majors.
W. J. Lemke Scholarship. Journalism majors.
For more information on department awards, go to the journalism department Web site


MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
Contact: Gloria Young, gyoung@uark.edu, 575-3351

Droke-Dunn Scholarship in Mathematics.
Mathematics major, outstanding Senior planning to continue graduate work in mathematics.
John & Faye Keesee Award.
Undergraduate mathematics major; high school GPA, high ACT.


MUSIC
Contact: Stephen Gates, sgates@uark.edu, 575-4702

Arkansas Territorial Sesquicentennial Scholarship. Music majors, students in piano, organ, violin, or voice.
Margaret & George Bowen Scholarship. Music majors/instrumental; junior, senior, or graduate students; participants in the North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and the University Chamber Orchestra; full-time students; 4-year renewable; 2.5 GPA.
Margaret Windsor Clark Endowed Scholarship. Music majors.
Bing Cunningham Memorial Scholarship
. Junior or senior music majors, piano.
Robert P. and Carolyn Simms Evans Music Scholarship. Financial assistance for exceptional undergraduate students in music, with preference given to piano majors.
William C. Gant Scholarship. Freshman music majors, piano, financial need, potential for excellence in piano and pedagogy.
Mary Dengler Hudgins Arkansas Music Scholarship. Music majors.
Anne Kitrell Memorial Music Scholarship. Music students, Arkansas residents.
Presser Scholarship. Presented to the outstanding rising senior; $1,500 from the Presser Foundation and $750 from the university. Selection by chair and faculty.
Wayne Alan Stevens Memorial Scholarship. Undergraduate music majors, ability and talent, three-year renewable.
James E. Tancred Memorial Scholarship. Music majors, piano.
Alcia Yoes Scholarship. Student must be actively participating in one of the fine arts—music, art, dance, architecture, or theatre. Must be a junior or senior, an Arkansas resident, and be employed or earning part of his or her University expenses. Requires a 2.5 GPA.

For applications and more information on music scholarships, visit the department Web site.


PHILOSOPHY
Contact: Sherry Sparks, ssparks@uark.edu, 575-3551

Philip S. Bashor Scholarship. Graduate philosophy majors.
Dr. Harold D. Hantz Scholarship. Undergraduate philosophy majors, academic excellence, financial need a secondary consideration, application required.


PHYSICS
Contact: John Stewart, johns@uark.edu, 575-2506

Admiral William C. Bryson Scholarship. Physics majors, interest in astronomy, preference given to academic achievement and progress, 3.0 GPA, renewable.
Steve T. Hildebrand Endowed Fund. Supports exceptional students in physics.
George D. Lingelbach Memorial. Undergraduate physics majors, given at Honors Day.
Robert D. Maurer Physics Research Fund. Physics majors; scholarships, fellowships and research.
Charles B. Richardson Senior Fellowship. Junior or senior physics majors, 3.0 GPA, undergraduate research.
Paul C. Sharrah Scholarship
Physics majors.


POLITICAL SCIENCE
Contact: Todd Shields, tshield@uark.edu, 575-3356

Dr. Henry M. Alexander Memorial Award. Senior political science majors, highest GPA.
William Jennings Bryan Award. Political science majors, outstanding students.
Minna Rosenbaum Divers Endowed Scholarship and Award. Undergraduate political science majors, merit and academic record, interest in public service.
Hugh T. Henry Endowed Memorial Fund. Master of public administration candidates.


PSYCHOLOGY
Contact: Douglas Behrend, dbehrend@uark.edu, 575-4256

Lynn Waite Dunlap Memorial Fund. Undergraduate or graduate psychology majors.
Walter J. Richards Memorial Award. Psychology majors, awarded Honors Day.
R. H. Waters Memorial Psychology majors.
Marie Wilson Howells Trust Fund. Provides graduate student stipends and graduate assistantships.


SOCIOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Contact: Bill Schwab, bschwab@uark.edu, 575-3206

Stephen Stephan Memorial Scholarship. Sociology major, academic excellence and leadership. Amount: $1,500. Deadline: February 1.

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