This scholarship was established by Prudence L. Clark for the purpose of encouraging scholarship in botany, soil building, and plant breeding.
Juniors or seniors with a declared major from the IUB Department of Biology who are interested in botany, soil building, and plant breeding.
GPA of 3.3 or better.
$750
Applications for this award are due Monday, February 20, 2017.
Submit all materials listed on the application instructions. 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.
Rachna Chaudhari is earning a B.S. in Biology. She conducts research in Sidney Shaw’s plant cell biology lab, studying microtubule organization in the Arabidopsis plant. Rachna is involved with a number of student groups at IU: she’s the advertising chair for the Minority Association for Pre-Medical Students, the media director for the Biotechnology Club, and is a member of the Indian Student Association. She plans to attend medical school and hopes to one day participate in the Doctors Without Borders program. Rachna also received the 2015-2016 Arlene Ferguson Internship at Hilltop Gardens.
Prudence L. Clark established the Clark Scholarship to honor her husband, Howard Walton Clark. He earned two degrees in Botany from IU, an AB in 1896 and an AM in 1902. They were married for 34 years. Howard was Curator of Ichthyology for the California Academy of Sciences at the time of his death in 1941. In establishing the award, Prudence advised that the scholarship be given to those students whose "young souls thirst for knowledge."
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