Scholarships

New and continuing students in the Biology Department apply for scholarships through one application made on the Murray State Scholarships Office website. Students will automatically be considered for any scholarships for which they qualify. The Department of Biology has a number of scholarships that are given out to students in specific fields such as Pre-medical, Pre-dental, Wildlife and Conservation or Aquatics students, as well as scholarships that can be granted to any student in the Biological Sciences. Our students receive > $50,000 in scholarships each year from the Scholarships listed below.

We greatly appreciate the contributions to scholarship funds that make these scholarships possible. If you would like to contribute to these funds to help our students succeed, please make a donation to the specific fund at this link.

Scholarship Name	Student Specialization
Charles G. Smith Future Physician's Scholarship	Pre-medical
Charles Leroy & Kate Eldridge Scholarship	Biology and Agriculture
Clark Conrad	Biology
Connie Crittenden Lowry Pre-Medical Scholarship	Pre-medical
Dr. Jonathan Nicholas Terhune Memorial Scholarship	Biology
Dr. Liza Spann Scholarship	Biology
Dr. Morgan Emery Sisk, Jr. Alumni Scholarship	Aquatics
Dr. Stephen B. White Wildlife Biology Scholarship	Wildlife and Conservation Biology
Dr. Thomas Timmons Scholarship	Student research projects
Dr. WJ and Martha Pitman Endowed Scholarship	Biology and Chemistry
Emily and Alfred Wolfson Scholarship	Biology
Hal E. Houston Endowed Fund for Excellence in Biomedical Science	Pre-medical internships
Hugh Houston	Biomedical sciences
Jesse & Deborah Jones Scholarship	Sciences
Larry D. Harris Memorial Wildlife Biology Fund	Wildlife and Conservation Biology
Murray Calloway County Scholarships	Pre-Health Professionals
Thomas N. and Marjorie J. Weems Scholarship	Pre-medical and pre-dental
Three River Coon Hunters	Wildlife and Conservation Biology
Ken Maddox Renewable Scholarship*	Herpetology
Wayne T Harrell Memorial Alumni Scholarship*	Pre-medical
Ann Ross Evans Biology Scholarship*	Biology
Ashbrook Endowed Scholarship*	Biology
Jane Henry*	Biology/Chemistry/Physics
Jeanne and Roy English*	Biology/Chemistry/Nursing
Brian Ray Smith*	Biology

*These funds are not yet endowed. Please donate to them!

Some scholarships do not go through Scholarship Office; instead there is a separate application for each of them:

Biology Study Abroad Scholarships (apply through the Murray State Study Abroad Office)

Research grants (apply through the Office of Research and Creative Activity or ORCA)

Grants for Murray State students to study biodiversity in our region - Upper Delta Region Biodiversity Scholarship for graduate and undergraduate students (apply at this website to participate at Murray State).