Biology Scholarships

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Applications for the 2024-2025 Academic Year are due May 6, 2024

2024-2025 Requirements for all Biology Department Merit Scholarships

  1. Biology offers scholarships to full-time Biology undergraduate majors and Biology graduate students.
  2. Undergraduate applicants need to have completed at least 1 upper-division BIOL course, and be enrolled, at the minimum, in their second quarter of the Biology Major at the time of application.
  3. All applications must include a concise one-page letter to the scholarship committee describing your interests in biology and how they relate to your goals after graduation. Please include any information on academic awards and honors, internships, research experience, teaching assistant work, special projects or publications.
  4. Applications will require an electronic copy of your current unofficial WWU transcript, and, if applicable, transcript(s) from other universities or colleges.
  5. Obtain one letter of recommendation by a WWU science faculty member of your choosing. Please have the recommender submit the letter directly to the Biology Department via e-mail to biology@wwu.edu You will name the faculty on your application form.

Available Scholarships 2024-2025

  • Undergraduate or Graduate students may apply. Requires GPA ≥ 3.3 and current participation in a research project.
  • Letter to the scholarship committee should include a description of your research project/proposal, including publications, or presentations at meetings.

  • Undergraduate students, Graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, or visiting scholars may apply. Requires GPA ≥ 3.3 and current participation in a research project. 

  • Letter to the scholarship committee should include a description of your research project/proposal, including publications, or presentations at meetings. 

  • Undergraduate students may apply. Requires GPA ≥3.3 and participation in any intercollegiate sport at WWU. (Athletic clubs or intramural sports do not count). 

  • Letter to the scholarship committee should describe your sport, and how you integrate athletics with academics. 

Undergraduate students may apply. Requires GPA ≥3.3 

  • Undergraduate students and Graduate students may apply. Requires GPA ≥ 3.3. Scholarship(s) are awarded to students demonstrating financial need, using FAFSA information via the Financial Aid Department. 

  • Letter to the scholarship committee should address your initiative and motivation to study and contribute to the field of Biology. 

  • Undergraduate students may apply. Requires GPA ≥ 3.3, pursuing studies in aquatic biology or environmental health. Scholarship(s) are awarded to students demonstrating financial need, using FAFSA information via the Financial Aid Department. 

  • Letter to the scholarship committee should describe your interests in aquatic biology or environmental health. 
  • Undergraduate students may apply. Requires GPA ≥ 3.3 and preference is given to students interested in horticulture/botany. 

  • Undergraduate students may apply. Requires GPA ≥ 3.3. Scholarship(s) are awarded to students demonstrating financial need, using FAFSA information via the Financial Aid Department. 

  • Letter to the scholarship committee should address your marine biology interest and exceptional merit. 

  • Undergraduate or Graduate students may apply. Requires GPA ≥ 3.3. Scholarship(s) are awarded to students demonstrating financial need, using FAFSA information via the Financial Aid Department. 

  • Letter to the scholarship committee should address your outstanding research achievements and academic merit. 

Scholarships Offered by the College of Science and Engineering

Other Scholarships

AFCEA Educational Foundation. Scholarships available to encourage the teaching of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) subjects.

SMATE.  The Science, Mathematics and Technology Education Program offers several scholarships.

Western Washington University. List of scholarships available to Western students (undergraduate or graduate) by either private or Western sources are available from Admissions and Financial Aid.

Past Scholarship Recipients Archive