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Scholarships Offered by the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences


The scholarship application deadline for Spring 2008 awards is Wednesday, March 26th by no later than 4:00 PM. Below are links to Microsoft Word Document Templates that will allow you to fill out and print application forms to submit. Applicants will also need to submit an unofficial transcript and an informal statment concerning your current funding sources and a brief statement of your accomplishments at UNM. These items are explained more extensively on the application form.

For ease in completing and printing the form, your should click on the links below to download the appropriate document template to your computer and fill it out. (Documents will download into a new browser window and load directly into Microsoft Word; close that window when done to return to this page).

Any of the Windows computers in the department computer lab (Northrop 209) may be used to do this. If you have trouble downloading or using the form, see Cindy in the main office who can give you a paper copy of the form to complete.

Undergraduate Scholarship Application

Graduate Scholarship Application

Completed printed forms need to be turned in to Cindy in the main office by no later than 4:00 PM on March 26th, 2007.


On this page are listed most of the scholarships which may be awarded to graduate and/or undergraduate students by the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. The Caswell Silver Fellowship is awarded by the Caswell Silver Foundation and is not detailed on this page. Most of the scholarships awarded by the department are the result of generous contributions from alumni and friends of the department.

For more information about any of the fellowships, scholarships, assistantships or other awards listed here please contact the Department by phone at (505) 277-4204 or Email at epsdept@unm.edu.

Albert and Mary Jane Black
and E.E.E. Graduate Assistantship.

Douglas Brookins Memorial Scholarship
General Thomas D. Campbell Memorial

Chair’s Discretionary Fund

Collections Development Fund

Energy Exploration, Education Fund

Geology Alumni Scholarship

Vincent C. Kelley Memorial Scholarship
Paul Kelley Memorial Scholarship
Harry Leonard Scholarship

Jean-Luc Miossec Memorial

James Drew Pfeiffer Memorial Award

Rodney C. Rhodes Memorial Scholarship

Gratton Simons Endowment

Richard P. Vann Memorial Scholarship

Alexander and Geraldine Wanek Graduate Scholarship

Dr. Sherman A. Wengerd and Florence Mather Wengerd Traveling Fellowship


Please send comment about this site to connolly@unm.edu.

Please direct inquiries about the Department and its programs to epsdept@unm.edu


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