AWG Scholarships
(application deadlines shown in parentheses)
- Chrysalis Scholarship - Amount varies up to $2,000 (Usually March 1) (a PDF version is also available)
- The Chrysalis Scholarship provides degree-completion funding for women geoscience graduate students whose education has been interrupted for at least one year. The awards are intended to cover thesis/dissertation costs such as typing or drafting expenses, child-care, or anything necessary to assist a degree candidate during those critical, final days.
- AWG Minority Scholarship - $6,000 (June 30)
- This scholarship encourages young minority women to pursue an education and later a career in the geosciences. It provides financial aid and matches the student with a mentor in the same field who will offer guidance and support. This exchange will enhance the student’s experience and provide a view of the world ahead.
- AWG Winifred Goldring Award - one-year membership to the Paleontological Society and AWG (September 15) (a PDF flyer is also available)
- Applicants may be either undergraduate or graduate students; the recipient must be enrolled as a student during the period of the award, and proof of student status is required.
- AWG Crawford Field Camp Scholarships - Two $500 awards (February 16)
- These scholarships will be awarded to promising women students who will be attending field camp during the summer months.
- Lone Star Rising Career Scholarship - Up to $1,000 (December 31)
- The AWG Lone Star Scholarship provides professional development funding for women in the geoscience profession who wish to resume their geoscience careers after having been out of the work force.
- William Rucker Greenwood Scholarship - $1,000 (approx. April 30)
- The William Rucker Greenwood Scholarship is awarded each year by AWG-Potomac through the AWG Foundation to honor and provide support for outstanding minority women geoscience students.
- Penelope Hanshaw Scholarship - $500 (approx. April 30)
- The Penelope Hanshaw Scholarship is awarded each year by AWG-Potomac through the AWG Foundation. Eligible candidates are women who are currently enrolled as full-time, graduate or undergraduate geoscience majors in an accredited, degree-granting college or university in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, or West Virginia.
- Janet Cullen Tanaka Scholarship - $1,000 (December 1)
- The Pacific Northwest Chapter offers the Janet Cullen Tanaka scholarship each year to an undergraduate woman committed to completing a Bachelor's Degree and pursuing a career in the geosciences. Eligible canditates are sophomore, junior, or senior women enrolled in a university or two-year college in Oregon or Washington State.
- Susan Ekdale Memorial Scholarship - $2,000 (April 14)
- The scholarship, offered by the Salt Lake Chapter of AWG, is available to a woman geoscience student attending college or university in Utah, who must attend field camp this summer as part of her graduation requirements.
- Osage Chapter Scholarship (April 1)
- Invites applications from undergraduate women pursuing independent research in geosciences for merit based research grants up to $500
