HomeScholarships and Financial Aid
Merit Scholarships: Lakeside Merit Scholarships cover basic room and board for the entire term in which a four-credit course is being taken. These scholarships are funded through the generous support of the Friends of Lakeside Lab, the Okoboji Protective Association, and many individual donors.
Honor Scholarships: Honor Scholarships support students taking specific courses at Iowa Lakeside Laboratory. The following Honor Scholarships are available:
Richard Bovbjerg Scholarship -- Aquatic Ecology
William F. Danforth Scholarship -- Freshwater Algae
Lawrence Eilers Scholarship -- Plant Taxonomy
Charles Reimers Scholarship -- Diatoms
These $150 scholarships are added to the Merit Scholarship.
Qualifications: To qualify for Lakeside Merit and Honor Scholarships, you must have a GPA of 2.5 or higher and you must be registered for at least one four-credit course.
Honor Scholarships will be awarded to the applicant with the highest GPA in the course for which there is a named scholarship.
Application Procedure: To apply, please complete the following three steps: 1) Indicate on your Lakeside Registration Form that you would like to be considered for a scholarship. 2) Prepare a 100-200 word essay that describes your qualifications and motivation for taking courses at Iowa Lakeside Laboratory. Submit this to the Executive Director as an email attachment (PDF or MS Word format). 3) Have a copy of your official transcript sent to:
Iowa Lakeside Lab
1838 Highway 86
Milford, IA 51351
Phone: 712-337-3669
Fax: 712-337-0361
The deadline for receipt of scholarship applications is April 1, unless stated otherwise in the information for that scholarship. Awards will be announced in early May.
Additional Scholarships: In addition to these scholarships, the Friends of Lakeside Lab offer five special scholarships: the Agrestal Environmental Writing Scholarship, offered in partnership with the Agrestal Fund of the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation; the John Clayton Kingston Diatom Fellowship, to support the teaching assistant in the Ecology and Systematics of Diatoms Course; the Jane Goodall Scholarship; the G. Dennis Cooke Aquatic Ecology Scholarship, to support research in aquatic ecology; and the Parker/Gentry Scholarship, to support students taking Lakeside's Conservation Biology course. Please see the individual pages for these scholarships for application information.
If you qualify for scholarships, student aid or other kinds of support at your home institution, you should be able to apply this to Lakeside courses. Please check with your financial aid office.