Student Academic Grants and Awards

Welcome, students! In these pages we will introduce you to a myriad of opportunities, and provide a range of resources to help you decide where you are going and how to get there. Here you'll find information on a variety of competitive grants and scholarships, links to scholarship foundation home pages, and plenty of practical advice from programs and past applicants to help you put together an outstanding application.

Welcome, faculty! Here you will find advice about writing recommendation letters, and samples of letters that can help you understand what specific programs look for in applicants and recommendations.

Internal Scholarship Awardees

2023-2025 Presidential Scholarship


Milo Maltz (2025)

Analyzing Personality Characteristics of Border Patrol Officers and the Contributions of Childhood Abuse and Antisocial Personality Traits to Dispositions for Violence

Sponsor: Erik Noftle, Psychology

Ella Ashford (2024)

Identifying Barriers to Ocean Literacy Education in American Samoa to Inform Future Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Curriculum Development


Sponsor: Scott Pike , Environmental Science

Matthew Mahoney (2023)

Exploring the Dalian Imagination: Studies into Salvador Dali's Prints in the Hallie Ford Museum of Art and Theories of Art


Sponsor: Ricardo De Mambro Santos, Art History

2025 Carson Undergraduate Student Research Grants


Edhel Brual

Sponsor: Juwen Zhang, Global Cultural Studies


Alyssa Diggdon

Artistic Expression as Economic Independence Across the American West

Sponsor: Holden Head, Studio Art


Hunter Shinn

Artistic Expression as Economic Independence Across the American West

Sponsor: Holden Head, Studio Art


Eva Floyd

Making Music in Prisons

Sponsor: James Miley, Music


Rose Grimson

Plants, People, and Common Ground: Restoration Ecology at the Nexus of First Foods, the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, and Soil Science

Sponsor: David Craig, Biology


Maddy Maes

Building a Grief-Informed Willamette

Sponsor: Maegan Parker Brooks , CCM


Tiffany Truong

Exploration of Language Barriers in Application to Salem’s Chinese American Community

Sponsor: Juwen Zhang, Global Cultural Studies

2025 College Colloquium Student Research Grants



Violeta Basenko

“Songs of Resistance” Documentary

Sponsor: Sarah Clovis Bishop , Global Cultural Studies


Ernest Jones

The Relationship Between Urbanicity and Food Environments in Ohio


Sponsor: Michael Lockard and Nicole Iroz-Elardo, ExHS and PHEAL


Ellie Starr

Beyond the Land Acknowledgement: Paying Back A Debt


Sponsor: Emily Drew, Sociology

 

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Student Academic Grants and Awards

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