Margaret P. Benson Memorial Scholarship
Application Deadline: February 10, 2012
The Margaret P. Benson Memorial Scholarship recognizes qualified female applicants who demonstrate financial need and are committed to women’s issues, diversity, and social activism. One or two awards are available each year. Awards generally range from $1000 to $2000 per academic year to be applied toward tuition, fees, living expenses, or books. The Women’s Resource and Action Center’s Advisory Board selects the recipients.
Jane A. Weiss Memorial Dissertation Scholarship
Application Deadline: February 10, 2012
A $3,000 scholarship will be awarded to a University of Iowa Ph.D. candidate whose dissertation focuses on issues pertaining to women.
Graduate students from all disciplines are encouraged to apply. Applications and supporting documents must be received by February 10, 2012.
The selection committee is facilitated by the Women’s Resource and Action Center and the Department of Women’s Studies.
Downloadable application materials for the 2012-2013 Scholarship:
The Jean Y. Jew Women’s Rights Award
Nomination Deadline: February 23, 2012
The Women's Resource & Action Center and the Council on the Status of Women are accepting nominations for the 2012 Jean Y. Jew Women's Rights Award.
The award, given annually by the Council on the Status of Women and the Women's Resource and Action Center, honors a faculty, staff, or student member of the University community who has demonstrated outstanding effort or achievement in improving the status of women at the University. The award comes with a $1,000 stipend.
The award will be granted at the Annual Celebration of Excellence and Achievement Among Women on April 3, 2012, at 3:30 pm in the Old Capital Museum.
The criteria for selecting the awardees are a strong record of support for women’s rights in a board sense, a commitment to women’s rights at The University of Iowa and one or more of the following related to women’s rights: particular contributions to the University of Iowa, accomplishments with national scope or impact, a long-standing record of leadership, effort and activism. The Women’s Resource and Action Center and the Council on the Status of Women sponsor the award.
Downloadable material for the 2012 Scholarship:
The following Scholarships are from affiliated sites at The University of Iowa.
Adele Kimm Scholarship
Deadline: February 10, 2012
The 2012-2013 Adele Kimm Scholarship will be awarded to a graduate student involved in the Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies Department through coursework or service. One award of $1000 will be given. Please note this award will be dispersed during the next academic year (2012-13), and the recipient must be registered as a full-time student during both semesters.
Send completed application and supporting materials electronically to:
Ada Johnson/Otilia Maria Fernandez Scholarship
Deadline: February 10, 2012
In honor of Ada Johnson, one of the first black women students to graduate from The University of Iowa (1912) and Otilia Maria Fernandez, one of the first Hispanic woman graduates (1924), Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies has established an annual scholarship of $1000 for a woman student of color who has taken courses in the Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies Department or whose academic interests include some aspect of women's culture or experience.
The 2012 Ada Johnson/Otilia Maria Fernandez Scholarship will be awarded to an undergraduate student. Awards will be presented on the basis of academic performance and commitment to issues relevant to women of color.
APPLICATION MATERIALS SHOULD INCLUDE:
A. Application form
B. A one-page statement describing your academic or career goals, and some ways in which these reflect a concern for women’s lives;
C. two letters of recommendation;
D. transcripts of all undergraduate work.
Send completed application and supporting materials electronically to:
The UNIVERSITY CLUB SCHOLARSHIP
Visit their website at: www.uiowa.edu/~uwc
As a part of our commitment to the University of Iowa and our community, The University Club has been very proud to have been able to fund scholarships for qualified University of Iowa female students. These scholarships were funded from the interest on an invested fund from our reserves and over the years we have been able to provide scholarship support for two students per year. In 2000, with the decline in the economy and declining interest rates, the Board examined options to ensure that the club could continue our tradition of providing scholarships in perpetuity.
It was decided to create an endowment at the University of Iowa Foundation. With donations from excess funds at that time in the club's budget and with the generous support from our members, the fund ($30,000 minimum) has been fully endowed during the last few years. We are now able to provide two scholarships each year to deserving women. These students are generally 4.0, female students of junior standing and who have graduated from an Iowa high school. The scholarship office rotates the scholarships among different departments.
