This award is made possible thanks to a bequest from Dixie Westlake Floyd, the wife of Colonel Bayard Franklin Floyd.
Floyd Plant and Fungal Biology Summer Fellowship
Read about Col. Bayard Franklin Floyd at the bottom of the page.
Floyd Plant and Fungal Biology Summer Fellowship Requirements
Eligiblility
The Floyd Plant Summer Fellowship is available for students conducting thesis research related to plant or fungal biology in Biology faculty labs. Doctoral students may be from any graduate program; master's students must be from a Biology graduate program.
To be eligible students must be making progress towards their degree and be engaged full-time in dissertation or thesis-related activities (research and/or classwork) during the summer.
Note: Students whose research deals with plant-microbe interactions and focuses mostly on the microbial side should apply for the Floyd Microbiology Fellowship.
Award
The award is a stipend and varies depending on the applicant’s departmental stipend. (Students can accept competitive awards on top of these funds without being penalized.)
How to apply
Applications for this award are due by 11:59 p.m. on February 8 each year.
To apply for the Floyd Plant & Fungal Biology Summer Fellowship, fill out the application form; save the form and all required application materials into a single PDF file labeled with the name of the fellowship, year, and your last name; and submit to the IU Biology Grad Office's dropbox by the deadline.
Your advisor must submit separately to the IU Biology Grad Office's dropbox by the deadline a short assessment of your progress, indicating whether s/he is in agreement with your projected date of degree completion and whether s/he supports your request for Floyd summer stipend support.
About Bayard Franklin Floyd
Bayard Franklin Floyd (1882-1945) earned an A.B. in Botany from Indiana University in 1905 and an A.M. in Botany from the University of Missouri in 1907. His wife, Dixie Westlake Floyd (1881-1955), was also a student at the University of Missouri, and the two were married on June 29, 1910.
After earning his Master’s degree, Floyd was hired as a plant physiologist at the Florida Agricultural Experimental Station, working there from 1910-1917, when he left to serve in the U.S. Army during World War I, earning the rank of colonel. He returned to the Florida Agricultural Experimental Station (later called the Citrus Research and Education Center) and worked as a plant physiologist there until 1920. Floyd was well known for his research on fertilization methods of citrus trees in Florida soils and contributed significantly to the Florida citrus industry when he discovered that the state’s trees were suffering from copper deficiency, resulting in die-back. In 1921 he was named vice president of the Wilson and Toomer Fertilizer Company, a position he held until his death on November 8, 1945.
Floyd served as Secretary of the Florida State Horticultural Society for 27 years. He also served on the Research Advisory Committee of the Florida Citrus Commission and on the Florida Agricultural Research Bureau. Floyd was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was a member of the American Society of Plant Physiology, the American Chemical Society, and the American Society of Agronomy. He was inducted into the Florida Citrus Hall of Fame in 1962.
His wife created the Colonel Bayard Franklin Floyd Memorial Fund via a bequest made at the time of her death, and this award is funded from that bequest.
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