Horticulture and Crop Science
Application Procedures
Crop Science: The faculty will consider all crop science majors who fill out the departmental scholarship application found here. 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.
Horticulture: A departmental application required of declared horticulture students will be available early winter quarter and must be submitted by March 13, 2009. 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 scholarship Web site for more information.
Contact
Tom Shockey
Rm 355G Howlett Hall
Phone: 614-292-3846
E-mail: shockey.2@osu.edu
Crop Science
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.
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.
PGM/Turfgrass Science
The Columbus, Ohio Chapter, Executive Women's Golf Association Scholarship
Income provides scholarships in support of educational diversity and will be awarded in furtherance of the diversity mission of OSU with particular attention to, but not limited to, female studnets enrolled in the PGM program.
The John Zoller - Morty's Kids PGM/Turfgrass Science Scholarship
Income provides financial support to an undergraduate student in PGM or Turfgrass Science based on leadership, scholarship and service with significant emphasis placed on leadership contributions made in development activities in terms of participation in organizations such as Morty's Kids or the Morton Foundation.
The Toro Company Scholarship
Income provides scholarships to freshmen, sophomores or students pursuing international internships and are enrolled in the turfgrass major at OSU.
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.
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.
