FCFC Non-Portal Scholarships
Below are the W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation scholarships and travel awards that do not use the scholarship portal to gather applications. Please click on the Application Information links under each award listing for more details on how to apply.
FRANKE SUSTAINABILITY FELLOWSHIPS
Deadlines: April 6 and November 6 each year
Applicants: Undergraduate
Description:
The Franke Sustainability Fellows Program supports students who are studying and/or practicing sustainability projects in either domestic or international settings. These fellows are a prestigious cohort of our top students who will participate in off-campus exchange or education programs or complete a field project or research. The W.A. Franke Sustainability Fellowship Program was made possible through a gift from William A. and Carolyn Franke and their family.
Applicants should submit application materials 8 weeks prior to the proposed fellowship activities in order to allow enough time for review.
The University of Montana Global Engagement Office has specific deadlines for study abroad programs for the following semester. The FSFP Committee will review application packets and students will receive notification no more than 30 days after submitting their application. The committee will work closely with the Financial Aid office and applicants to ensure that awards are released at a time when they are compatible with students’ financial aid package.
MATTHEW HANSEN ENDOWMENT
Deadline: Friday, April 19, 2024
Applicants: Graduate / Undergraduate
Description:
The Matthew Hansen Endowment was established in 1984 as a memorial to Matthew and his ideals. The Endowment provides funding for historical research, creative writing, and wilderness studies projects that explore Montana's land and people. We hope, as Matthew did, that projects awarded under this fund will encourage mindful stewardship of the land, both wild and cultivated, and contribute to the preservation of Montana's cultural heritage. The Endowment encourages proposals from anyone interested in furthering this goal.
ALABACK AND BREWER MELIPAL FELLOWSHIP
Deadline: Applications are no longer being accepted. Please check back in January.
Applicants: Graduate / Undergraduate
Description:
The Alaback and Brewer Melipal Fellowship supports undergraduate or graduate research and public education focused on conservation and sustainable development in Latin America. Resource Conservation students who wish to work in Chile or Argentina are given priority, but the award is available to students in any FCFC degree program working on these topics anywhere in Latin America.
IRENE EVERS' COMPETITIVE UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS
Deadline: Applications are no longer being accepted. Please check back in January.
Applicants: Undergraduate
Description:
The W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation provides Irene Evers’ Competitive Undergraduate Research Scholarships (IECURS) to support undergraduate research projects. Recipients must be an undergraduate of at least sophomore standing and must be enrolled in a degree program in the W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation at the University of Montana for the fall semester following the award and have a GPA of 3.2 or higher to qualify for this award.
WILDERNESS INSTITUTE MEIER GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP
Deadline: Applications are no longer being accepted. Please check back in December.
Applicants: Graduate
Description:
Fellows will work with a faculty advisor to develop a graduate research or creative scholarship project or field-based experience with a focus on Wilderness or wildlands. Fellows will document the meaningful impacts and transformative nature of their experience to a larger audience in a format suitable for sharing through WI communications. Graduate students in the WA Franke College of Forestry & Conservation, as well as graduate students advised by Wilderness Institute faculty with primary appointments in other UM units, are eligible to apply.
ZUURING-MAGIP GRADUATE GIS SCHOLARSHIP
Deadline: Applications are no longer being accepted. Please check back in December.
Applicants: Graduate
Description:
The Zuuring-MAGIP Graduate GIS Scholarship provides scholarships for first-year graduate students who are in good standing at the University of Montana. Recipients may study any discipline, but must be working on a project that incorporates Geographic Information System sciences and technologies as a significant part of their thesis or dissertation research. Projects must have a reasonable chance of completion within 1.5 years or less and selection shall be weighted heavily on the strength of the proposal. (Strength of GIS sciences and technologies is more important than financial need; however, financial need may be used as a secondary criterion in recipient selection.)
UM MONTANAVIEW FELLOWSHIPS
Deadline: Applications are no longer being accepted. Please check back in December.
Applicants: Graduate / Undergraduate
Description:
Open to University of Montana undergraduate, graduate, or post-baccalaureate students in any discipline who are working on a project that uses remote sensing. The preference is for projects directly related to
Montana’s agricultural, range, forest, wild lands, urban, or other resources. Recipients will be expected to present their research at a forum with the other winners in April.
PHILLIP L. WRIGHT MEMORIAL RESEARCH AWARD
Deadline: Applications are no longer being accepted. Please check back in December.
Applicants: Graduate / Undergraduate
Description:
The Five Valleys Audubon Society established the annual Philip L. Wright Memorial Research Awards to honor Wright's contributions to science and the community. He was a professor of zoology at the University of Montana who taught mammalogy and ornithology and established the zoological museum that bears his name on the UM campus. These awards provide support for students undertaking research in the fields of ecology, wildlife biology, animal behavior, environmental biology, and conservation biology. Research awards have been in the range of $500 to $2,000.