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Blatchley Nature Study Club Scholarship Undergraduate Requirements

Blatchley Nature Study Club Scholarship Undergraduate Requirements

Blatchley Nature Study Club Scholarship

This scholarship was established in 1989 by the Blatchley Nature Study Club of Noblesville, Indiana.

Eligiblility

Juniors with a declared major from the IUB Department of Biology who plan to apply to a graduate Plant Biology or Ecology and Evolutionary Biology degree program. Graduating seniors are not eligible to apply.

Also open to Bloomington graduate students in Plant Biology, or Evolution, Ecology and Behavior.

Criteria

Serious candidates should have a minimum grade point average of 3.0 and have financial need. First preference is given to qualified candidates who have Indiana residency. Not sure you are a resident? See the Rules Determining Resident and Nonresident Student Status on the Registrar’s website.

Recipient MUST be willing to prepare and present a program to the club at a mutually agreed upon time, usually the following spring. (Research conducted through Biology L490 or its equivalent could provide material for this.)

Award

$500

How to apply

Applications for this award are due Monday, February 20, 2017.

Application instructions Application form

Submit all materials listed on the application instructions plus a brief description of your research. A letter of support must be submitted separately by a faculty member.

To apply, save the application form to your computer. Fill out the form using Adobe Acrobat Professional DC. (Acrobat Pro may be downloaded for free from under the "Design & Production" section of IUWare.) Choose "Save as" and rename your completed form as your Lastname_firstname_2017.pdf (Example: Wyss_kathy_2017.pdf). Mac users: Please take the extra step of opening your completed form in Preview, select "print," and then use the "Save as PDF" option to resave the form to ensure your application is readable in Windows.

Recipients of this award will be recognized at a student awards ceremony held on Friday, April 28, 2017, at 3:30 p.m.

Faculty/Postdoc Fellows: Please upload student award nominations and recommendations to the "Recommendations" dropbox.

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Matthew Helm, 2015 Blatchley Scholar

In the spring of 2016, recipient Matthew Helm will visit the Blatchley Nature Study Club. While there, he will give a presentation featuring the results of his research on conferring disease resistance to the viral pathogen Soybean Mosaic Virus in soybeans. Matt is a member of Roger Innes’ lab, where research suggests that endogenous soybean resistance genes (R genes) can be modified to confer durable resistance to the Soybean Mosaic Virus. The aim of this work is to generate crop plants with wide-spectrum, agronomically useful disease resistance.

Matt Helm in one of biology's greenhouses. Photo by Terri Greene.

About the club

Dr. Earl Brooks, who was president of the Kiwanis Club, established the Hamilton Nature Study Club in 1922. The club's name was later changed to honor Indiana naturalist and state geologist, Dr. W. S. Blatchley. The group has a dedicated nature preserve and clubhouse located in Noblesville, Indiana. In keeping with their mission to promote educational study and scientific research of the Natural Sciences, they established the Blatchley Nature Study Club Scholarship here at Indiana University.

Blatchley Nature Study Club Scholarship Undergraduate Requirements