Adamson
Clay Adamson Experimental Learning
Eligibility: BLA, rising 3rd and 4th years. To be used towards travel, lodging or other related expenses for a real-world work opportunity or out-of-state internship.
Purpose: Established in 2007 and fulfilled as an endowment in 2013 to provide educational support for an exemplary undergraduate student of landscape architecture towards any real-world work opportunities or out-of-state internships which require assistance for travel, lodging, or other related expenses.
Background: Donor is W. Clay Adamson, BLA ’60 / MLA ’80. Clay believes in championing those diamonds in the rough, which if given the opportunity, will make a lasting and positive impression. A practicing landscape architect in the realm of college facilities management and design, Clay worked with University System of Georgia, Mercer, and the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta. He is now retired and living in Athens. Additional Conditions: A detailed report of the work experience or how this fund assisted will be required to present to the Donor at the start of the next academic year.
Additional Conditions: None
Allen
Doug Allen Institute / Kappa Sigma Student Support Fund
Eligibility: BLA/MLA/MHP/MUPD
Purpose: Established in 2017
Background: This scholarship was established by friends of the late Doug Allen, who graduated from the CED in 1970.
Additional Conditions: None
Arnold
W.E. & Harold Bailey Family Scholarship
Eligibility: BLA, at any year level.
Purpose: To provide a scholarship(s) to undergraduate(s) majoring in Landscape Architecture.
Additional Conditions: None
Brasfield
Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC Scholarship
Eligibility: BLA, entering the 4th year of the program.
Purpose: To provide a scholarship to an undergraduate majoring in Landscape Architecture with the strong interest in and exemplary understanding of construction, design materials, engineering, and the built environment. It was created to recognize students with a high aptitude for design and construction and hopes to support students who can readily embrace these skills in the workforce.
Additional Conditions: Strong interest and exemplary understanding will be demonstrated by applicants in a “letter of intent” describing their interests and past or current projects, research, or internships (to be incorporated in the CED scholarship application’s STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP REQUEST STATEMENT and the STUDENT QUALITIES AND ACTIVITIES listing).
Breeden
J. Brooks & Peggy Carroll Breeden Travel Scholarship
Eligibility: BLA or MLA.
Purpose: This scholarship supports landscape architecture students and emphasizes the importance of student travel through support for visits to notable works by outstanding practitioners in the field. It is also intended to provide the opportunity for a recipient to visit professional landscape architecture firms to observe how they function.
Background: Created by Peggy Breeden in memory of her husband, Brooks. The inspiration for this award was a travel / study award Brooks (MLA ’74) received while he was a student.
Additional Conditions: This award is merit based, for a student with outstanding academic and/or extracurricular achievements. The award recipient will be asked to submit a brief biography and summary of experience to be shared with the fund representative.
Breedlove
Mike Breedlove Scholarship
Eligibility: BLA
Purpose: This scholarship provides support for undergraduate students pursuing a degree in landscape architecture.
Background: Created by Breedlove Land Planning and Mike Breedlove (BLA ’80)
Additional Conditions: Preference shall be given to students with an interest in grading, drainage, and stormwater management. (Specify in the CED scholarship application’s STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP REQUEST STATEMENT and the STUDENT QUALITIES AND ACTIVITIES listing).
Cassilly
Paul Cassilly Journey Fund
Eligibility: BLA, at any year level.
Purpose: To provide a scholarship to an undergraduate majoring in Landscape Architecture who wishes to travel as a boost to his/her educational goals.
Background: This fund is in honor of Paul Cassilly, an architect and avid traveler who believed deeply in the value of travel as inspiration for the soul.
Additional Conditions: This fund is intended to support educational travel; applicants must submit a travel budget in the CED Scholarship application’s STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP REQUEST STATEMENT (estimate is fine).
CED50
The CED 50 Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: BLA, at any year level.
Purpose: To provide a scholarship to an undergraduate student(s) in the CED.
Background: This is a general scholarship created and offered by the College.
Additional Conditions: None.
Coker Creek
Coker Creek Endowment (David A. Rogers Travel Scholarship)
Eligibility: BLA that will study abroad with the program in Cortona, Italy. Must be a legal citizen or resident of the United States and a resident of the state of Georgia.
Purpose: To provide scholarship(s) for an outstanding undergraduate student(s) majoring in Landscape Architecture that wishes to study abroad in Cortona, Italy.
Background: Dave Rodgers is a retired BLA ’72 who became the Coker Creek Trustee in 2012 for the estate of Norman Cole. Dave believes in the Cortona experience as did Mr. Cole, and Dave was one of two students who went there in 1971 on behalf of landscape architecture. Dave worked in Atlanta most of his career, designing high-end residential for Atlanta-area athletes.
Additional Conditions: Student will be selected based on talent, passion, ability, and the benefit they seek as a result of the Cortona experience. Applicants must submit a travel budget in the CED scholarship application’s STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP REQUEST STATEMENT (estimate is fine).
Env&Des
Environment & Design
Eligibility: BLA/MLA/MHP/MUPD
Purpose: Created in 1986 to provide scholarships for worthy students in the College of Environment & Design, which includes Landscape Architecture, Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation.
Background: This is a general scholarship created and offered by the College, which is supported through many and varied alumni gifts. The Donor Representative is the Dean of the College.
Additional Conditions: None
Eubanks
John Walter Eubanks Merit
Eligibility: Entering 3rd or 4th year of BLA, out-of-state student preferred.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide a scholarship to a full-time student entering at least their 3rd year in the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA) program at UGA. The intent is to recognize excellence in the study of landscape architecture with a demonstrated interest in conservation and/or restoration. Background: Created in 1996 by Mr. Francis M. Eubanks and Mrs. Carol W. Eubanks to honor their son John Walter Eubanks, an upcoming fifth year landscape architecture and Honors student at UGA. John died while on a summer internship at Bridger Teton National Forest in Jackson, Wyoming. Francis and Carol are the Donor Representatives for this fund.
Additional Conditions: Preference will be given to out-of-state students and selection will be primarily merit based, although financial need may also be considered. Demonstrated interest in conservation and/or restoration must be included in the CED scholarship application’s STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP REQUEST STATEMENT.
GA ASLA
GA ASLA Student Scholarship
Eligibility: BLA, rising 3rd-5th years.
Purpose: To provide a scholarship(s) to undergraduate(s) who has/have declared Landscape Architecture as their major focus. The intent is to recognize those students with high leadership potential and professionalism. Those who are members of the student chapter GSLA are to be considered first and foremost as future professionals deserving of this award.
Background: The State of Georgia’s ASLA Chapter created a scholarship endowment out of dedication to students in the BLA program. The Chapter often is comprised of UGA alumni and faculty, and they are dedicated to seeing students supported through GSLA. The current president of GA ASLA is the Donor Representative for this fund.
Additional Conditions: National ASLA Student Membership number shall be included in the CED application’s STUDENT QUALITIES AND ACTIVITIES listing. (Membership is free for students). A written composition on “My Vision of the Role of Landscape Architecture as a Profession for the Future” will be submitted to the Scholarship Coordinator by March 1.
Grover
Edah Brittain Grover Scholarship
Eligibility: BLA. Eligibility for this scholarship requires that the Office of Student Financial Aid (OSFA) verifies your financial need. First, you must fill out the FAFSA (found on the OSFA website). You should do this well before the scholarship application deadline, as the OSFA’s workload is out of our control. The OSFA will use the FAFSA to determine your need. If they determined that you do not have unmet financial need, they may determine that the scholarship cannot be awarded.
Purpose: Created in 1996 to assist qualified young women who desire the opportunity to pursue a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Georgia.
Background: Edah Grover earned her MLA from UGA in 1978, at the same time her daughter Lois was earning her BLA. As the founder of Grover & Harrison, PC in Birmingham, Alabama, this mother-daughter firm received national attention for the fine quality of its design and execution in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Edah received the CED Distinguished Alumna Award in 1995, the first woman to receive this award. Although Edah is still living, her daughter Lois is now the Donor Representative of this fund.
Additional Conditions: Academic achievement, leadership, character and financial need are taken into consideration in selecting the recipient.
Hill
Robert J. Hill
Note: This scholarship may be reserved for incoming students at the discretion of the Scholarship Coordinator.
Eligibility: BLA.
Background: Robert J. Hill served as a professor and undergraduate coordinator in the Landscape Architecture program at UGA from 1966 until 1995. He was characterized as the epitome of a southern gentleman, and a fierce advocate for the program until his death in August of 2007. The courtyard in the Founders Memorial Garden was dedicated in his honor in 2008. Mr. Hill’s dear friend Mr. Charles Godfrey, BLA ’57 / MLA ’71, is the Donor Representative of this fund.
Additional Conditions: None.
Hoffman
Matthew Hoffman Memorial Scholarship
Eligibility: Entering 3rd or 4th year of BLA.
Purpose: To provide scholarship(s) for an undergraduate student(s) majoring in Landscape Architecture.
Background: This fund was established in 2020 by the Atlanta-based firm HGOR in tribute and memory of their late employee and CED alum Matthew Hoffman (BLA 1992).
Additional Conditions: None.
Howell
Wesley Thurmond Howell Memorial Scholarship
Eligibility: Entering final year of BLA.
Purpose: To provide scholarship(s) for an undergraduate student(s) majoring in Landscape Architecture. Candidate shall be a student entering their final year capstone project of the BLA program.
Background: This fund was established in 2002 in memory of Wesley Thurmond Howell who was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease at the age of 14. Wesley was enrolled in the Landscape Architecture program at UGA, and died as result of his illness in February of 2000. He was awarded his Landscape Architecture degree posthumously. His parents are the current Donor Representatives.
Additional Conditions: It is required that a book on Wesley’s life be read prior to receiving the awarded scholarship.
LAbash19
2019 LAbash Collective Scholarship
Eligibility: BLA, entering 4th year.
Purpose: Provides scholarship support for an undergraduate student(s) entering their last year of coursework in Landscape Architecture at the CED. The recipient(s) should be hardworking, dedicated, and highly involved with extracurricular activities within the College and are highly encouraged to attend LAbash the year they receive the scholarship.
Background: Former students who organized the 2019 LaBash conference in Athens made this generous donation.
Additional Conditions: None.
Lambert
James Lambert International Travel Scholarship
Eligibility: BLA/MLA.
Purpose: To provide awards to support global travel and study for landscape architecture students in the CED. The fund will only support international travel, not domestic. The award will be based on merit of the student’s proposal, not academic need. Application will include a submission of a proposal, schedule and budget. Applicants will demonstrate how their plans will yield a substantial and transformational impact upon their academic career and life aspirations.
Additional Conditions: Upon return, the recipient will be encouraged to submit a paper to the Dean of the College reflecting upon what they learned and the impact that resulted from their experience.
Lewis
David Alan Lewis Memorial Scholarship
Eligibility: BLA, at any year level.
Purpose: To provide a scholarship(s) to undergraduate(s) majoring in Landscape Architecture who shares in Alan’s love of nature, conservation, and the landscape.
Background: David Alan Lewis was a CED alumnus (BLA ’10) who died in a tragic accident at age 29. Family and friends have established this scholarship in his honor. An avid outdoorsman, Alan was passionate about plant materials and the evolution of environmental design. He was LEED Certified and a member of ASLA and SCSLA.
Additional Conditions: Preference will be given to a non-traditional student who is working while attending UGA full time and is self-supporting.
Long
John A. Long Student Scholarship Fund
Note: This scholarship may be reserved for incoming students at the discretion of the Scholarship Coordinator.
Eligibility: BLA, with preference to first-year students or transfer students.
Purpose: To provide a scholarship(s) to undergraduate(s) majoring in Landscape Architecture.
Additional Conditions: None.
Marshall
Randolph & Helen Marshall Scholarship
Eligibility: BLA entering 3rd year or above, or MLA in last two years of program. Out-of-state student required.
Purpose: To provide tuition assistance for full time, worthy/talented out-of-state students in need, who are pursuing a degree in Landscape Architecture at the University of Georgia, and to inspire students to give back.
Background: This fund was established by Randolph and Helen Marshall in 1996. Randolph received his BLA from UGA in 1972, and is principal of his own highly acclaimed firm. His work has received national recognition and exposure with a list of premiere clientele from around the world. Both Randy and Helen are the Donor Representatives for this fund.
Additional Conditions: Students who have been awarded before are encouraged to re-apply if they still have need.
Marshall Travel
Randolph & Helen Marshall International Travel Scholarship
Eligibility: BLA that will study abroad internationally with an approved program at CED or with another program at the University of Georgia.
Purpose: To provide scholarship(s) for an outstanding undergraduate student(s) majoring in Landscape Architecture that wishes to study abroad with an international program at CED or with UGA.
Background: Randy, BLA ’72, and Helen, his wife, are steadfast supporters of the College. They have a scholarship supporting out-of-state students, and in 2012 established an international travel scholarship. Both Randy and Helen are avid travelers, and they believe in the learning and appreciating of culture as fundamental to good design. Randy for years has been an independent designer in New York with an impressive clientele. Most recently he is affiliated with the Prince of Monaco Foundation, and travels to Europe and South America regularly.
Additional Conditions: Applicants must submit a travel budget as part of their STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP REQUEST STATEMENT (estimate is fine). Applicants should be recognized by faculty as worthy and talented students who would greatly benefit from study abroad experiences. The secondary preference will be for students needing financial assistance.
Nettleton
Nettleton Travel Scholarship
Eligibility: BLA or MLA or MHP.
Purpose: To provide support for travel abroad studies for full-time students majoring in Landscape Architecture or Historic Preservation in the College of Environment & Design, thus in order to become educated and appreciative travelers.
Background: This fund was established in 2003, in honor of Mrs. Carrie Buhrman Nettleton by her daughter Blakeslee Nettleton Chase. Mrs. Nettleton was a renowned garden club member in the State of Virginia and loved to travel. She encouraged her daughters and all she knew to travel and enjoy the world. Mrs. Chase was the first female MLA graduate from UGA in 1958. She and her husband, Allan – also a BLA graduate of ’56, ask that students prepare an illustrated report to be submitted to the Dean at the end of their travels.
Additional Conditions: Award is to be used only by the recipient for travel expenses. Applicants shall submit a travel budget as part of their STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP REQUEST STATEMENT (estimate is fine). Recipient(s) will prepare an illustrated report to be submitted to the Dean at the end of their travels.
Nicholls
Dean Robert P. Nicholls Traveling Scholarship
Summary: Offered to top student finishing 3rd year BLA Program.
Purpose: To provide scholarship support for a student in the College. The award should be offered to the top student finishing his/her third year of an undergraduate program, as determined by grade point average at the end of the academic year. If there is a tie, the scholarship should be split between the top students. The recipient should be selected by a faculty committee appointed by the Dean of the College and must submit an acceptable travel proposal. The College will work with the recipient to provide an illustrated report to the Donor after the trip.
Background: Born in England, Robert P. Nicholls graduated from the University of Liverpool School of Architecture in both Architecture and City Planning. In 1955, when Ian McHarg founded the University of Pennsylvania’s Landscape Architecture Program, he recruited Nicholls as one of the new school’s first students. He graduated in 1957 and was invited to be a visiting assistant professor in the UGA landscape architecture program. From 1959-1964, he worked as an architect-planner in Canada, first for a new town in the Canadian Arctic, then for the Canadian government’s Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, and subsequently as an architect, designing a hospital and other facilities. In 1964, he returned to the University of Georgia as an associate professor, then professor. In 1973, he became the school’s second Dean (1973-1983). He oversaw creation of the school’s Historic Preservation program, was instrumental in helping create the State Botanical Garden, and established environmental design as part of the UGA Cortona (Italy) Art Program.
Additional Conditions: Travel proposal required. Illustrated report to be provided to the donor following the trip.
Owens
Hubert B. Owens Landscape Architecture Scholarship
Eligibility: BLA or MLA.
Purpose: To provide scholarships to students who have demonstrated, through academic performance, outstanding potential in preparing for careers in professional landscape architecture.
Background: Hubert B. Owens founded the Landscape Architecture Program in 1928 at the University of Georgia. In 1969, he was named the first Dean of the School of Environmental Design. This fund was set up by alumni of the Landscape Architecture program in 1975 in his honor. Hubert was Dean until 1972. Hubert’s nephew, Richard Owens – a BLA Alumnus from ’76, is the Donor Representative for this fund, and remotely represented by Hubert’s son Bond, and daughter Sarah.
Additional Conditions: None.
Prickett
Barbara Johnson Prickett Travel Scholarship
Eligibility: MLA or BLA. Selection will be primarily merit-based, but will take into consideration need, character, leadership, academic achievement, and a preference, but not requirement, for Georgia residency. Travel support to CORTONA program ONLY. Eligibility for this scholarship requires that the Office of Student Financial Aid (OSFA) verifies your financial need. First, you must fill out the FAFSA (found on the OSFA website). You should do this well before the scholarship application deadline, as the OSFA’s workload is out of our control. The OSFA will use the FAFSA to determine your need and the CED will query OSFA for their findings. If they have determined that you have financial need, you may be asked by the Scholarship Coordinator to complete a very simple authorization that enables the OSFA to tell us the exact amount that you need, as we cannot award you a scholarship that exceeds this determined amount.
Purpose: To award tuition and living assistance support to a student in the Landscape Architecture program at the College of Environment and Design, by providing a scholarship to students studying landscape architecture specifically in UGA’s Cortona, Italy study abroad program.
Background: Established by her family and the Weswood Foundation, this scholarship is in memory of Barbara Johnson Prickett, who passed away in 2002 following decades of service to the Peachtree Garden Club in Atlanta. The scholarship honors the tradition begun by PGC and its Neel Reid Scholarship, and commemorates Barbara’s love of travel. Mr. Ernie Prickett, husband, is the Donor Representative for the fund.
Additional Conditions: Award is to be used only by the recipient for travel expenses to Cortona program. Applicants must submit a travel budget as part of their STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP REQUEST STATEMENT (estimate is fine). A report on studies in Cortona may be required post-trip.
Reid
Neel Reid Memorial Scholarship
Eligibility: BLA/MLA
Purpose: Merit
Background: Established in 1947 by the Peachtree Garden Club to honor their friend and renowned architect Neel Reid. This fund remains one of our oldest and most prestigious awards given to students.
Additional Conditions: Students do not directly apply. However, based upon all of the student applications for scholarships received, the CED Scholarship Committee forwards outstanding applications to the Peachtree Garden Club who selects awardees from that pool of applicants. Attendance to the annual PGC October luncheon during the award year is required.
Stone
Howell S. Stone Memorial Scholarship
Eligibility: BLA, rising 3rd or 4th year student anticipating the need for internship assistance.
Purpose: To provide support to an undergraduate student(s) in the internship program within the College of Environment and Design. This support shall include, but not be limited to, travel expenses, housing expenses, and other expenses associated with finding and participating in an internship and/or while performing an internship. Criteria and selection is to be determined by the CED Scholarship Committee.
Background: This fund was established in 1998 by family in memory of Howell Stuart Stone who lost his life on July 13, 1997. Mr. Stone received his BLA from UGA in 1993. Carolyn Jackson (mother) and Lisa Ross (sister) are the Donor Representatives for this fund.
Additional Conditions: Include travel or lodging expenses anticipated if not a paid internship in the STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP REQUEST STATEMENT.
Weatherly
Neal Weatherly Scholarship in Landscape Architecture
Eligibility: BLA, at any year level.
Purpose: To provide a scholarship(s) to undergraduate(s) majoring in Landscape Architecture who demonstrate an interest in horticulture and planting design.
Background: Neal Weatherly is a Professor Emeritus of the CED and is a noted plantsman. Professor Weatherly taught plant identification and planting design courses to countless students over many years. Prior to that, he served the state of Georgia with UGA’s Extension office and worked for his family’s plant nursery.
Additional Conditions: None.
Wigginton
Brooks E. Wigginton Scholarship
Eligibility: BLA or MLA.
Purpose: To provide scholarship assistance for outstanding full-time students pursuing a (BLA or MLA) degree in Landscape Architecture.
Background: Brooks E. Wigginton, FALSA, served on the Landscape Architecture faculty at UGA from 1945 to 1958, and was an author of three books on southeastern trees and shrubs. Mr. Wigginton passed away in September 1995, and this scholarship was created in his honor in 2001. Mr. Wigginton’s son is the Donor Representative for this fund.
Additional Conditions: None.
