UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES - current and recent Scholarships/Grants/Awards/Fellowships

Undergraduate scholarships available from UC Davis

Careers, scholarships, etc. at CLCA

CA NRCS Graduate Scholarship

The Roseheart Center has a prized contest to design a zen garden and labyrinth.

Diablo Women's Garden Club Scholarship
The goal of our club is to create, promote and further develop interest in horticulture, gardening, floral and landscape design, and to encourage civic planting and conservation.
Awards range from $500 to $2,000
Eligibility requirements:
*Open to undergraduate students in the fields of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture
*Scholarships are merit and need based
Application requirements:
Submit a letter describing yourself, your academic history, and
your career goals. In addition, if awarded a scholarship, how will you use the money? Include a copy of your transcripts, and a letter of recommendation from a faculty member or employer. Be sure to include your address, phone number and email address.
Application deadline: April 15, 2009
Mail To: Diablo Women's Garden Club c/o Dolores Geisler P. O. Box 626 Diablo, CA 94528
 
LDA or pre-LDA majors: want to show-off your personal design abilities and get a $50 bookstore certificate? Here is a chance if you join our design competition! The competition is to graphically design the commencement program for the 2009 LDA graduation ceremony.
Design requirement:
Design the first page of the 2009 Commencement Program.
The design should include text "2009 Graduation Reception Program" on the front cover and 2009 Graduating Seniors on the back section (remember to provide space for the actual list of names).
Your final submission will be a PDF file (landscape orientation 8.5" x 11") with the front and the back covers on the same side of the page. LDA's 2007 Commencement Program is available here for an example.
Please submit your design by emailing to Sharla or Venus by Mar 27th, 2009.

The American Society of Landscape Architects has released its 2009 professional and student call for entries.

Wayne Grace Memorial Student Design Competition.

UCD Prized Writing competition: this competition is designed to select and publish the best expository writing produced by UC Davis undergraduates during the 2008-2009 academic year. Contestants must be undergraduates whose work was written for a UC Davis course during the 2008-2009 academic year beginning with Summer Session I, 2008. Winning entries will be published in Prized Writing: The Essay and Scientific & Technical Writing , which will be sold in the UCD Bookstore and used in writing and GE courses. All winning entries will receive individual awards. There is also a contest for the cover.

2009 Hart Howerton Fellowship Program for graduate and undergraduate students in planning, architecture and landscape architecture, due 1/12/09.

LAF Scholarships

KEARNEY FOUNDATION UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

VAN ALEN INSTITUTE NEW YORK PRIZE FELLOWSHIP

The Damaris Horan Prize: Landscape History Fellowship with Britain's National Trust 2007

The Plant Conservation Programme at Knightshayes Court offered by The Royal Oak Foundation

ESRI-sponsored (and non-ESRI-sponsored) grants

National Low Impact Development Student Design Competition

Teaching Resources Center, UCD

The Garden Club of America

The Garden Club of Virginia

Landscape Architecture Foundation

Landscape Architecture Research Award (LDA Seniors). Students apply for grants (funds vary) for Senior Projects (research). The award process is managed by whomever is in charge of Senior Projects that Spring quarter.

 
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