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Horticulture & Related FieldsBenjamin Casella

2022 The Katharine M. Grosscup Scholarships in Horticulture

Turf Management Education: Obtaining a Bachelors of Science degree in Turf Management.

Casella became interested in athletic-field maintenance while growing up playing sports and volunteering at a local municipal Little League complex. Casella’s internship at Pine Valley Golf Club will allow learning the intricacies of golf-course maintenance and turf management strategies from leading professionals. Casella aspires to have a career in turf management with the intent of becoming a golf-course superintendent.

The Katharine M. Grosscup Scholarships in Horticulture

To encourage the study of horticulture and related fields.

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2022

Adair McNear

The Garden Club of America Board of Associates Centennial Pollinator Fellowship

Did the Pollinator Cross the Road?: Plant-Pollinator Ecology and Wildflower-Population...

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2022

Alayna Call

The Katharine M. Grosscup Scholarships in Horticulture

Call’s experience includes working as a research assistant in the Department of...

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2022

Brian Pedersen

The Corliss Knapp Engle Scholarship in Horticulture

Research Engineering at Plenty Unlimited Pedersen supervises the research spaces used by...

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2022

Carter Hulinsky

The Garden Club of America Scholarship in Garden History and Design at the Archives of American Gardens

Collections Management and Outreach Internship at the Archives of American Gardens of the...

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2022

Christopher Cosma

The Garden Club of America Board of Associates Centennial Pollinator Fellowship

Beyond the Yucca Moth: The Composition, Structure, and Climate-Change Sensitivity of Moth...

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2022

Emma Grover

The Loy McCandless Marks Scholarship (an International Scholarship in Tropical Horticulture or Landscape Architecture)

Influence of Developmental Stage and Life History on Leaf Traits in Tropical Rain Forest Trees ...

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2022

Erin Forstner

The Garden Club of America Award in Desert Studies

Summer Internship at Desert Botanical Garden Forstner’s summer internship at Desert...

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2022

Eva Coleman

The Elizabeth Gardner Norweb Summer Environmental Studies Scholarship

Eastern Himalayan Forests and Biodiversity Coleman will conduct summer studies in Bhutan at...

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2022

Evan Hockridge

The Garden Club of America Fellowship in Tropical Botany

Islands in the Forest: Spatiotemporal Patterns of Ecosystem Structure, Composition, and Function...

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2022

Giovanna Figueroa

The Garden Club of America Fellowship in Tropical Botany

Phylogeographic Study of the Economically Important Palm Tree Oenocarpus bataua in Northwestern...

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2022

Jacklyn Alsbro

The Clara Carter Higgins Summer Environmental Studies Scholarship

Demmer Scholars Program—Natural-Resource Policy Internship and Embedded Class Alsbro...

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2022

John Kees

The Joan K. Hunt and Rachel M. Hunt Summer Scholarship in Field Botany

A Preliminary Assessment of Calcareous Grasslands in the Jackson Prairie Region Kees will...

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2022

Julia Harenčár

The Garden Club of America Fellowship in Tropical Botany

Combining Ecology and Genetics to Understand Species Boundaries in Neotropical Gingers ...

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2022

Julie Capito

The Loy McCandless Marks Scholarship (an International Scholarship in Tropical Horticulture or Landscape Architecture)

Who Planted the Forest? Working with a Lacandon Maya Community in Chiapas, Mexico, to Quantify...

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2022

Katelyn Fulcher

The Katharine M. Grosscup Scholarships in Horticulture

Seed and seedling responses to leaf litter depth along a domestication gradient in chile pepper:...

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2022

Kate Abbott

The Garden Club of America Fellowship in Ecological Restoration

Resilient River Restoration: Small Dam Removal as a Tool to Enhance Ecological and Community...

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