NAMA Scholarships

OUR SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Dr. James Curry Foray Scholarship

NAMA is pleased to announce the Dr. James Curry Foray Scholarship for the 2024/2025 Fiscal Year.

This new scholarship is funded by Dr. James Curry with $10,000 for the fiscal year.

$9000 of that will be given to NAMA’s member clubs and associations to fund scholarships to their own local and regional forays.
$1000 of that will be used by NAMA for scholarships for its own forays.

The goal of the scholarship is to help defray the cost of attending a foray, especially for youth attendees and attendees in need.

NAMA is charged with selecting 30 of its clubs this fiscal year and providing them with $300 each. Each club or mycological association is authorized to administer the scholarship as they see fit, but should award the scholarship within 12 months to help a youth attendee or an attendee in need attend one of their forays.

If your club is NAMA affiliated, it is eligible to apply. NAMA will choose club scholarship recipients randomly and clubs that are not selected will automatically be eligible in the 2025/2026 fiscal year if the the scholarship repeats.

NAMA Memorial Scholarship

The NAMA Memorial Fellowship was established to commemorate an amateur or professional mycologist designated annually by the NAMA Board of Trustees. The award consists of a $2,000 grant to a graduate student in mycology on the basis of scholastic merit, research ability, and promise shown as a mycologist. The student is selected and the award is administered by the Mycological Society of America. The requirements are the same as those for the MSA Graduate Fellowships, with the additional stipulation that the Fellow provides an article for McIlvainea.

NAMA Memorial Scholarship Recipients and Honorees

2022 - Benjamin Lemmond (in honor of Oluna Ceszka)
2021 - Rachel Swenie (in honor of Judy Rogers)
2020 - Carolina Piña Páez (in honor of Pat Lewis)
2019 - Mara DeMers (in honor of Gary Lincoff)
2018 - Jacob Golan (in honor of Herbert Pohl)
2017 - Cat Adams (in honor of Pat Brannen)
2016 - Brian Looney (in honor of Hildegard Hendrickson)
2015 - Rachel Koch (in honor of Patrice Benson)
2014 - Marisol Sánchez-García
2013 - Cesar Herrera (in honor of Ernst Both)
2012 - Dimitrios Floudas (in honor of Laurence Stickney)
2011 - Vincent Hustad (in honor of Ben Woo)
2010 - Valerie Wong (in celebration of the 50th anniversary of NAMA)
2009 - Jennifer Kerekes (in honor of Elsie Knighton)
2008 - Jo Anne Crouch (in honor of Orson K. Miller, Jr.)
2007 - Todd Osmundson (in honor of Bill Cibula)
2006 - Bryn Dentinger
2005 - no award given
2004 - Jeri Lynn Parrent
2003 - no award given
2002 - Admir Giachini (in honor of Leo Tanghe)
2001 - P. Brandon Matheny (in honor of Kent & Vera McKnight)
2000 - Steven Trudell, University of Washington-Seattle (in honor of Chuck Barrows)
1999 - Cameron Currie (in honor of Helen V. Smith)
1998 - John Paul Schmitt (in honor of Harry Lubrecht)
1997 - Daniel L. Czerderpiltz, University of Wisconsin (in honor of Dr. Rolf Singer)
1996 - James E. Johnson, University of Tennessee (in honor of Ellen Trueblood)
1995 - Greg Saenz, University of California-Berkeley (in honor of Dr. D.H. Sam Mitchel)