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Overview
Scholarship type
Merit based
Number of scholarships to award
Multiple
Grant
$1,500
Scholarship coverage
- tuition fee reduction
Description
The Bob and Doris Tracy Memorial Undergraduate Scholarship Award was created to support and encourage first- and second-generation undergraduate students enrolled in the Department of Biology who are studying mechanistic natural history (ecology, evolution, physiology, etc.) of vertebrates. The highest priority in awarding the scholarship will be to first-generation college students.
However, second-generation students are also encouraged to apply. The most competitive applicants will be students who are concentrating on the mechanistic natural history of vertebrates: this “interest” criterion will be evaluated liberally, however.
These scholarships are named in memory of Bob and Doris Tracy, who believed in the important of higher education. Although they could not afford college for themselves, they struggled to provide this experience for their children. Unfortunately, Bob and Doris passed before witnessing the manifold successes that higher education brought to their children.
The intent of these scholarships is to honor Bob and Doris’s supportive spirit by “paying it forward” or helping first-generation biology students who have ambitious goals to learn and use what they learn to benefit society.
Benefits
The scholarship is worth $1,500.
Eligibility
- Must enroll in 6 units or more for the current Spring term.
- Must be an undergraduate student in the biology department majoring in Mechanistic natural history (ecology, evolution, physiology, etc.) of vertebrates.
- Must have a GPA greater than or equal to 3.0.
Scholarship requirements
Disciplines
Biology
Locations
United States
Nationality
Any
Study experience required
High school
Age
Unknown
Application
Application deadline
03 Mar 2027
Must request (2) letters of recommendation via the _my_Matador Scholarships portal. (One letter must from a Biology faculty member).
Upload: unofficial transcripts.
Submit a brief personal statement. (must be typed, single-spaced and no longer than page in length) Please acknowledge your status as a first- or second-generation college student, recount significant experiences in mechanistic natural history of vertebrates while at CSUN, and describe your future professional goals.
If selected as the recipient, you agree to write a* thank-you letter to the donor(s) and be willing to meet with the donor(s) or designee(s). Both will be coordinated by the College’s Director of Development.