Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships

Scholarships

Private/Donor Scholarships

The following scholarships have been added since this list was last updated:

  1. ABBOTT AND FENNER BUSINESS SCHOLARSHIP
  2. TRUMAN D. PICARD SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

ABBOTT AND FENNER BUSINESS SCHOLARSHIP

Eligibility:

  1. This scholarship is available to all high school juniors and seniors, as well as all students currently registered in any accredited post secondary institution. 
  2. Students must be between the ages of 16 and 30. 
  3. To apply for this scholarship students will need to write an essay on one of the two following topics:

    If you could have lunch with any famous person, either living or dead, whom would you choose and why?  Describe your conversation at lunch. 

    When you look back on your life in thirty years, what would it take for you to consider your life successful?

Deadline: 6/19/2010

Scholarship Amount: $1000
  • Paper application available: No

  • Online application available: Yes

Scholarship contact information:
Abbott and Fenner Business Consultants - Organizational Information:

AFRICAN AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIPS

Eligibility: Out of its more than 60 scholarship funds, the Seattle Foundation offers numerous scholarships for African American students across a wide sprectrum of professions.  Please access the web site listed below for details.

Deadline: 3/1/2010

Scholarship Amount: Varies

  • Paper application available: No

  • Online application available: Yes

Scholarship contact information:

Seattle Foundation - Organizational Information:

Offers scholarships.

  • Web: http://www.seattlefoundation.org
  • Email:
  • Phone: (206) 622-7673

AMERICORPS

Eligibility:  

  • Applicants can gain new skills and work experience.
  • Applicants can pick their own program. 
  • Applicants get living expenses and money for college. 
  • There are opportunities nationwide. 

  • Applicants can do work that is really needed.

Deadline: Not specified

Scholarship Amount: Not specified

    • Paper application available: No

    • Online application available: Yes

Scholarship contact information:
Americorps - Organizational Information:

DFW INT'L COMMUNITY ALLIANCE GUIDE TO SCHOLARSHIPS FOR 
NEW AMERICANS AND MINORITIES

Eligibility: DFW International is the portal to the international N. Texas, a region in which 40% of the residents are New Americans of 1st or 2nd generation. Their mission is to build mutual understanding and respect by linking diverse international cultural communities.  Scholarships are awarded to empower members of the ethnic community.

Deadline: Not specified

Scholarship Amount: Varies
  • Paper application available: No

  • Online application available: Yes

Scholarship contact information:
DFW International Community Alliance - Organizational Information:

DFW international's is the portal to the international N.Texas, a region in which 40% of the residents are New Americans of 1st or 2nd generation. Their mission is to build mutual understanding and respect by linking diverse international cultural communities.

EASTERN WASHINGTON CHAPTER OF THE ACADEMY OF CERTIFIED
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS MANAGERS SCHOLARSHIP

Eligibility:

  1. Students must be undergraduate or graduate-level, enrolled in a university or college in the Eastern Washington Chapter area (includes portions of Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon, Idaho and Montana). 
  2. Students can also be undergraduate or graduate-level with a parent/grandparent/spouse who is a current (2009) member of the EWC/ACHMM; 
  3. Students must be majoring in a science or engineering field with the intent to pursue a career related to hazardous materials management (e.g., environmental science, public health, industrial hygiene, chemical safety, and hazardous waste disposal technology); 

  4. Have good academic standing.

Deadline: 11/1/2009

Scholarship Amount: Not specified

  • Paper application available: No

  • Online application available: No

Scholarship contact information:

More details:

Submit along with the completed application form an essay explaining the applicant's interest in pursuing a career related to hazardous materials management.  This can be substituted with an article written by the applicant discussing a current or emerging issue on hazardous materials management.

Academy of Certified Hazardous Materials Managers Eastern Washington Chapter - Organizational Information:

FILM & FICTION SCHOLARSHIPS

Eligibility: For young filmmakers & writers exploring the principles of a free society.

Deadline: 1/15/2010

Scholarship Amount: Up to $10,000

  • Paper application available: No

  • Online application available: Yes

Scholarship contact information:

  • Web: http://www.TheIHS.org.mfa
  • Email:
  • Phone: (800) 697-8799

  • Address: 3301 North Fairfax Drive Suite 440, Arlington, VA  22201-4432

Institute for Humane Studies - Organizational Information:

GLAMOUR MAGAZINE'S 2009
TOP 10 COLLEGE WOMEN COMPETITION

Eligibility:

  1. Applicants must be female students in their junior year (third year) from the United States or Canada attending a college or university. 
  2. They must have exceptional achievements and academic excellence in their academic careers.

Deadline: 12/1/2009

Scholarship Amount: $3,000

  • Paper application available: Yes

  • Online application available: Yes

Scholarship contact information:

Glamour Magazine - Organizational Information:

HEARING & SPEECH CENTER SCHOLARSHIP

Eligibility:

  1. Awarding of this scholarship will be based on documented hearing loss or speech/language disorder;
  2. Academic performance;
  3. Communitty involvement/leadership;

  4. Student essay; Financial need.

Deadline: 2/28/2010

Scholarship Amount: Not specified

  • Paper application available: Yes

  • Online application available: No

Scholarship contact information:

More details: To get an application, please contact the WSU Office of Scholarship Services, Washington State University by e-mailing at scholarships@wsu.edu, phone-(509) 335-1059, or come by the office on the 3rd floor of the Lighty building, just past the Financial Aid Office.

Hearing & Speech Center - Organizational Information:

HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND (HSF)

Eligibility:  

  1. Be of Hispanic Heritage. 
  2. Be U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents of the U.S. 
  3. Must have a minimum GPA of 3.0. 
  4. Must apply for federal financial aid using the FAFSA.

Deadline: Not specified

Scholarship Amount: Varies
  • Paper application available: No
  • Online application available: Yes

Scholarship contact information:

Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF)/ National College Scholarship Program - Organizational Information:

INSTITIUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES FELLOWSHIPS

 

Eligibility: This fellowship is for outstanding undergraduate and graduate students exploring the principles underlying a free society.

Deadline: 11/15/2009

Scholarship Amount: Up to $12,000

  • Paper application available: No

  • Online application available: Yes

Scholarship contact information:

  • Web: http://www.TheIHS.org
  • Email:
  • Phone: (800) 697-8799

  • Address: 3301 North Fairfax Drive Suite 440, Arlington, VA  22201-4432

Institute for Humane Studies - Organizational Information:

KID'S CHANCE WASHINGTON SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

Eligibility: Must be a child or spouse to a Washington worker permanently or catastrophically injured or deceased.

Deadline: Not specified

Scholarship Amount: Not specified
  • Paper application available: No

  • Online application available: Yes

Scholarship contact information:
Kid's Chance of Washington - Organizational Information:

Kids’ Chance of Washington is a need-based scholarship program for the dependent children and spouses of workers killed or seriously disabled in a workplace accident in Washington.

NATIONAL PHYSICAL SCIENCE
CONSORTIUM (NPSC) FELLOWSHIPS

Eligibility: There are two programs,

  1. Six-year fellowships-Students typically apply when they are seniors in college.

  2. Dissertation support program-Students apply in the year prior to the one in which they intend to start their Ph.D dissertation research.

Deadline: 11/5/2009

Scholarship Amount: Not specified

  • Paper application available: No

  • Online application available: Yes

Scholarship contact information:

National Physical Science Consortium (NPSC) - Organizational Information:

The Consortium comprises leading universities (who provide tuition and fees) and private corporations and governmental research laboratories (who provide stipends and two summers of employment).

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES

Eligibility: Postdoctoral and Senior Research Associateship Programs available.  Please see web site below.

Deadline: See "more details" below.

Scholarship Amount: Not specified
  • Paper application available: No

  • Online application available: Yes

Scholarship contact information:

More details: ANNUAL APPLICATION DEADLINES: February 1, May 1, August 1, November 1

National Research Council - Organizational Information:

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION/
GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

Eligibility:

  1. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, nationals or permanent resident aliens, and

  2. At or near the beginning of graduate studies in an NSF-supported field: Chemistry, Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), Engineering, Geosciences, Interdisciplinary, Life Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Psychology or Social Sciences.

Deadline: Not specified

Scholarship Amount: Varies

  • Paper application available: No

  • Online application available: Yes

Scholarship contact information:

More details:

National Science Foundation - Organization information:

NATIONAL SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS

Eligibility: Scholarships are available for high school seniors, undergraduates and graduate students.  Please see web site for information on all the various scholarships available.

Deadline: Not specified

Scholarship Amount: Varies

  • Paper application available: Yes

  • Online application available: No

Scholarship contact information:
National Society of Professional Engineers Educational Foundation - Organizational Information

PLATEAU NATIVE AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP

Eligibility:  

  1. Students must be enrolled members of one of the following tribes: 
  • Coeur d’Alene Tribe
  • Colville Confederated Tribes
  • Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation
  • Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation 
  • Kalispel Tribe,
  • Klamath Tribe 
  • Kootenai Tribe of Idaho
  • Nez Perce Tribe
  • Spokane Tribe of Indians
  • Yakama Indian Nation; 
OR show proof of ancestry from a tribe or tribes known as Plateau Salishan, Sahaptian, or Kootenai. 
Enrolled members of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs who are of Sahaptian descent are also eligible to apply with documentation verifying their Sahaptian ancestry. 
  1. High school applicant must have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.75. 
  2. Transfer and current WSU student applicant must have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.5. 
  3. Graduate student applicants must have been accepted to graduate school.
  4. Preference given to students pursuing undergraduate degrees and to students pursuing a field of study within the College of Liberal Arts. 
  5. Recipient must enroll for a minimum of six credit hours per semester (five credit hours per semester if graduate student). 

  6. Financial need, academic performance, and essay statement will determine selection.

Deadline: Not specified

Scholarship Amount: Not specified
  • Paper application available: Yes

  • Online application available: No

Scholarship contact information:
  • Web: 
  • Email: aston@wsu.edu
  • Phone: 509- 335-8618

  • Address:  P.O. Box 641069, Pullman, WA  99164-106 

Plateau Native American Scholarship - Organizational Information

RACHEL ROYSTON PERMANENT SCHOLARSHIP

Eligibility:

  1. Be a bona fide resident of Washington State;
  2. Be a woman educator (or in training to be an educator) pursuing graduate level work or advanced study at an accredited institution of higher learning;

  3. Meet reasonable standards of health, scholarship, professional service, and other evidence of potential for future service in education.

Deadline: 11/30/2009

Scholarship Amount: Not specified

  • Paper application available: Yes

  • Online application available: No

Scholarship contact information:

More details:

Request application from Susan Dolman at smdolman@earthlink.net.

Rachel Royston Permanent Scholarship Foundation - Organizational Information:

This Foundation is affliated with Alpha Sigma State (Washington) Chapter of The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, an international organization of key women educators.

SOCCERPRO.COM

Eligibility: Open to anyone nvolved in soccer that is in college.

Deadline: 10/30/2009

Scholarship Amount: $1,000

  • Paper application available: No

  • Online application available: Yes

Scholarship contact information:

SoccerPro - Organizational Information:

TRUMAN D. PICARD SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

Eligibility: Applicants must be Native Americans pursuing a higher education in Natural Resources, both undergraduate and graduate students.

Deadline: 1/29/2010

Scholarship Amount: $2,000 & $1.500
  • Paper application available: Yes

  • Online application available: Yes

Scholarship contact information:

More details: Mail application to:  ATTN: EDUCATION COMMITTEE INTERTRIBAL TIMBER COUNCIL at the above address.

Intertribal Timber Council - Organizational Information:

WASHINGTON MUTUAL ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP

Eligibility:

  1. Applicants must be former employees of Washington Mutual, or the child, step-child, or dependent of a former employee, who worked for the company in Washington State, for a minimum of five consecutive years.  
  2. Applicants must have worked 1000 or more hours and terminating on or after April 1, 2007. Preference will be given to those who worked longer for the company;
  3. Be high school seniors, or college/university undergraduates;
  4. Demonstrate financial need;
  5. Have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5 in high school or undergraduate students in college/university or technical/vocational school. 

  6. All awardees will be required to file a FAFSA.

Deadline: Not specified

Scholarship Amount: Up to $5,000

  • Paper application available: No

  • Online application available: Yes

Scholarship contact information:

More details: Renewable up to 4 years.

Seattle Foundation - Organizational Information

Seattle Foundation Offers scholarships.

WASHINGTON SCHOLARSHIPS FOR CHILD CARE 
PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS

Eligibility: Awarded per semester.  Please check web site.

Deadline: Not specified

Scholarship Amount: Not specified

  • Paper application available: Yes

  • Online application available: No

Scholarship contact information:
Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships, PO Box 641068, Washington State University, Pullman WA 99164-1068, 509-335-9711, Contact Us