The Dona G. Graam Fellowship is the result of a bequest from Dona G. Graam to assist female graduate students in the IUB Department of Biology who are engaged in research work and/or as teaching assistants in zoology, providing support toward the payment of salaries as teaching or laboratory assistants. The fellowship is given out intermittently as funds accrue in the account.

Dona Gayler Graam (1892-1979) taught at West Terre Haute and Indiana State University. Graam also opened a medical laboratory in Terre Haute and worked in the laboratory for eight years.