Kansas State University geography students are frequent, and successful, competitors for a variety of national and regional awards, scholarships, and fellowships.  Geography scholars have been recognized by agencies such as the Association of American Geographers, National Science Foundation, NASA, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Department of Defense and the Morris K. Udall Foundation.  Kansas State University geography students have earned a total of 17 GTU Buzzard Scholarships, the most of any university in the United States.

Click here for a description of available K-State Department of Geography scholarships and a listing of past scholarship recipients.

 

2008
David Koch	Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation (NSF)
Iris Wilson	Morris K. Udall Scholarship

2007
Scott Deaner	William L. Stamey Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Arts & Sciences, Kansas State University
Nicholas Graf and Jeffrey Neel	Best Poster, Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Division of the Association of American Geographers
Brandon Haddock	First Place Doctoral Paper, Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Division of the Association of American Geographers
Darci Paull	First Place, Student Paper Competition, Applied Geography Conference
2006
Matthew Gerike	Distinguished Master's Thesis Award, Kansas State University
2005
Mary Dobbs	Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation (NSF)
Darci Paull	First Place, Student Paper Competition, Applied Geography Conference
Mitchel Stimers	First Place, Student Poster Competition, Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Division of the Association of American Geographers
2004
Debarchana Ghosh	First Place, Student Poster Competition, Applied Geography Conference
2003
Bradley Hammerschmidt	U.S. Department of Homeland Security Undergraduate Fellowship
Bradley Hammerschmidt	Francis E. "Gene" Lortz Memorial Scholarship, Central Region of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS)
1999
Holly Barcus	First Place, Student Poster Competition, Applied Geography Conference
Shawn Hutchinson and Bradley Rundquist	First Place, Student Poster Competition, Remote Sensing and GIS Specialty Groups, Association of American Geographers
1998
Bradley Rundquist	First Place, Student Paper Competition, Applied Geography Conference
Nancy Leathers	Third Place, Student Paper Competition, Applied Geography Conference
Shawn Hutchinson	Second Place, Student Poster Competition, Remote Sensing and GIS Specialty Groups, Association of American Geographers
1997
Shawn Hutchinson	Earth Systems Science Fellowship, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
1995
Shawn Hutchinson	Environmental Fellowship, U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)