Horticulture and Crop Science

Application Procedures

Horticulture: A departmental application required of declared horticulture students will be available early winter quarter and must be submitted by March 1. Applicants must have above average GPA and a specified interest in horticultural careers. Selection will be made spring quarter by the Horticulture Scholarship Committee and an interview may be required for some scholarships. See the department's Web site for more information.

Crop Science:

The faculty will consider all crop science majors for departmental scholarships without an application. Recipients will be chosen by the Crop Science Scholarship Committee and the donors following an interview spring quarter. Applicants must demonstrate above average GPA and an interest in careers in the industry.

Contact
Tom Shockey
Rm 216 Howlett Hall
Phone: 614-292-3846
E-mail: shockey.2@osu.edu

Crop Science

Agronomy Student Loan Fund

Short term loans to crop science students with emergency needs.

Roy O. Becker Crop Science Scholarship Fund

Income provides scholarships to crop science students with a strong interest in small grains.

Linville-Shoemaker Scholarship Fund

Income provides scholarships for outstanding sophomore or junior crop science majors with professional attitudes and devotion to crop science.

Ohio Agribusiness Assn.- Crop Science Scholarship

Annual gift supports an undergraduate student in crop science with an interest in agribusiness sales/ management in the grain, feed, seed, fertilizer, and chemical industries.

Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. Scholarship in Crop Science

Fund provides scholarship support to a junior/senior student in crop science.

Dr. Dale A. Ray Memorial Fund

Income provides an annual award to an outstanding grain crop student. Additional income is used to support teaching programs in hort and crop science, purchase equipment and provide support for attending conferences.

Landscape Horticulture

Wilhelm and Eleanor Beckert Scholarship Fund

Income funds scholarship and stipends to students in horticulture working in the department under the supervision of a faculty member in horticulture.

G. Walter Burwell Memorial Scholarship

Income provides scholarships for sophomore, junior or senior landscape horticulture majors.

L. C. Chadwick Scholarship

Annual support provides a scholarship for an undergraduate landscape horticulture student with above average grades.

Columbus Horticultural Society

Annual gift supports an undergraduate student in landscape or floriculture.

Franklin Garden Club

Annual gift provides an undergraduate scholarship for any student in landscape horticulture.

Alpha and Paul Haffey Scholarship Endowment

Income provides scholarships to undergraduate and/or graduate students in the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science with a preference to those with an interest in floriculture marketing.

Gustav W. Huhn Endowed Scholarship Fund

Income provides scholarships for students in the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science with preference based on a concentration of study in floriculture.

Thomas B. Kyle Scholarship Fund in Horticulture

Income provides undergraduate scholarships for high-quality students who are seriously interested in career opportunities in the areas of business and industry, research and/or education involving ornamental horticulture, nursery management, landscape contracting and/or marketing of horticulture related products.

Donald D. Mayhew Memorial Fellowship Endowment Fund

Annual income will support undergraduate student stipends for work in the Chadwick Arboretum under direction of a faculty member in tree and forestry improvement.

Gary J. Nicholson Memorial Scholarship in Horticulture

Income provides scholarships for undergraduate and/or graduate students in horticulture with floriculture marketing interests. Preference is given to Canadian applicants.

OFA / D. C. Kiplinger Scholarship

Annual gift provides scholarship support for a junior floriculture student with above average GPA, financial need and leadership ability.

OFA / Jerry Robertson Scholarship

Annual scholarship supports a junior or senior student in floriculture with above average scholastic achievement.

Ohio Association of Garden Clubs Horticulture Scholarship

Income provides a scholarship for an academically able junior or senior, with preference to students in floriculture or landscape horticulture.

Ohio Fruit Growers Society-Fred Hartman Scholarship Endowment

Income provides scholarship for an undergraduate or graduate student enrolled in the College or the Agricultural Technical Institute. Preference will be given to students in Horticulture and Crop Science and /or students demonstrating an association or involvement with the Ohio fruit industry.

Ohio State Floriculture/Landscape Horticulture Alumni Association Fellowship

Annual income will support undergraduate stipends.

Max V. and Carolyn Martin Puderbaugh Bonsai Scholarship Fund

Income provides a scholarship with preference for, but not limited to, students in the College, enrolled in the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science. Academic achievement and interest in the art and culture of bonsai shall be criteria for the scholarship.

William J. Skou Memorial Scholarship

Income provides scholarships for students in the upper third of their high school class entering or continuing studies in floriculture and/or greenhouse production of flowers or ornamentals, without regard to parent's income. Unused portions designated for undergraduate use at the Columbus campus may be used for support of a graduate associateship in the field of floriculture or greenhouse production of flowers or ornamentals.

Dorothy Kuder Smith and Floyd F. Smith Scholarship Fund in Floriculture and Entomology

Income provides scholarships divided equally between the floriculture (Department of Horticulture and Crop Science) and the Department of Entomology.

Marion K. Thomas Horticulture Fund

Income provides scholarships for undergraduates in the area of landscape horticulture.

Dean and Lucille Tresch Scholarship Fund

Income provides a scholarship for a sophomore, junior or senior student majoring in pomology or food processing and technology in the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science.

Carl Weals Scholarship

Annual gifts provide scholarship support to students in floriculture and landscape horticulture.

Gene Wittmeyer Vegetable Scholarship Endowment

Annual income supports an undergraduate or graduate student in the college with preference to students in good standing with an interest in vegetable crops in the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science and /or students demonstrating association or involvement with the Ohio vegetable industry.