The Loren G. Hill Biological Station Endowment provides scholarships for students attending summer session classes at the University of Oklahoma Biological Station. These scholarships help defray the costs of tuition and are primarily merit based, but financial need is also taken into consideration. Students with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher will be considered first. Scholarship applications will not be processed without the required names and contact information of two references and disclosure of previous assistance received.

The May session scholarship application deadline is April 25, 2008 and the August session application deadline is July 3, 2008. One scholarship application may be submitted to apply for both sessions. Scholarship decisions are made solely by the UOBS Scholarship Committee.

SCHOLARSHIP AMOUNTS FOR SUMMER SESSION COURSES

Students are also encouraged to apply for assistance through the Financial Aid Services at financialaid.ou.edu. The College of Arts and Sciences web site also contains information about additional scholarship opportunities.

GRADUATE SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP 2008
Application - pdf version

UOBS offers two $2500 fellowship for graduate-level (i.e. either M.S. or Ph.D-level) summer research. Research Topics: Research should focus on either field or laboratory experimentation/observations of natural ecological systems or studies of natural history, evolutionary ecology, population biology, and/or genetics of natural populations/species. It may or may not be related to the student’s thesis/dissertation research theme. Example topics are provided below:

PROPOSAL APPLICATION AND GUIDELINES:

The student must be enrolled as a graduate (i.e. M.S. or Ph.D.) level at an accredited university or college.
The student must work with faculty mentor or adviser throughout the project period.
The student must demonstrate high academic standing and potential to successfully complete the proposed research project.
The faculty mentor/adviser must agree to provide necessary support and advising throughout the project period.
Successful applicants must comply with guidelines for research at the UOBS. See the UOBS Web site: ou .edu/uobs for details. In particular, be sure that your proposal includes a listing of required laboratory/bench space needs as well as the need to access specific pieces of equipment (e.g. microscopes, computers). If you have any questions related specifically to research facilities/equipment available at UOBS, please contact:
Donna Cobb,
(405) 325-7430
The successful applicant will be required to submit a final (1-2 page) report to the UOBS Director upon completion of the project, along with providing copies of any subsequent reprints of work done as part of this fellowship program. (Reprints will be added to the UOBS library collection.) As a courtesy, we would expect that UOBS would be properly acknowledged in these publications.

PROPOSAL DEADLINE: March 10, 2008

AWARD NOTIFICATION DATE: March 31, 2008

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Lawrence J. Weider, Professor and Director of UOBS
Phone: (405) 325-4766 or (405) 325-7438
Fax: (405) 325-0835 or (580 )564-2479