Department of Plant Biology
Department of Plant Biology
Gift code: A504
Description: Programmatic/Expendable.
E James E. Rodman Botany Scholarship Endowment
Gift code: A50415
Description: The scholarship is to be awarded to an undergraduate major or graduate student selected on the basis of academic achievement, and enrolled in a program of study or research in the plant sciences, broadly construed to include mycology, with a preference for, but not restricted to, the field of Systematics.
E Norman A. Good Endowed Student Award
Gift code: A50405
Description: Eligible recipients shall be undergraduate or graduate students in the Department of Plant Biology. Awards may include scholarships and fellowships, summer Plant Biology, research support, funds to support a student's travel to a professional meeting, to bring to campus preeminent scientists in the field who will substantially enrich our student's educational experience, to bring a piece of scientific equipment for promising student research projects.
E E. A. Bessey Memorial Fund
Gift code: A504010
Description: This fund supports graduate students in Plant Biology.
E Dr. Leo W. Mericle and Dr. Rae Phelps Mericle Memorial Scholarship
Gift code: A50402
Description: Recipients of this award indicate promise of making a professional contribution
to the study of genetics of higher plants. Demonstration of financial need shall be
considered, however, it should not be the primary consideration. Special consideration
will be given to those studying the effects of ionizing radiation on the genetics
of higher plants. Recipients must be studying genetics of higher plants and be enrolled
in one of these departments: Crop & Soil Science, Forestry, Horticulture, Plant Pathology
or Plant Biology.
E Botany and Plant Pathology Academic Enrichment Endowment Fund
Gift code: A50403
Description: This fund is for graduate recipients and visiting scholars to provide
the costs associated with research which can only be conducted elsewhere. Funds may
also be used to support travel to conferences, symposia, and professional meetings
which offer unusual educational opportunities.
X Plant Biology Undergraduate Scholarship Fund
Gift code: A50404
Description: Undergrad/Expendable.
E Michigan State University Herbarium Endowment
Gift code: A50412
Description: Awarded to a MSU undergraduate or graduate student, or a student at another
institution that is planning to study at the MSU Herbarium, and their research must
include a component that is based on herbarium specimens.
X Danny Schnell Plant Biology Post-Doc Fund
Gift code: A50418
Description: Expendable.
E John H. Beaman Memorial Herbarium Fund
Gift code: A504130
Description: Expenditures from the Endowment will be used to support the MSU Herbarium.
The endowment will support collection management salaries and supplies, curatorial
expenses, collecting expeditions, specimen digitization or other high priority needs.
Expenditures are at the discretion of the Director of the Herbarium as authorized
by the Chair of the Department of Plant Biology as administrator of the MSU Herbarium.