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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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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...
Alayna Call
The Katharine M. Grosscup Scholarships in Horticulture
Call’s experience includes working as a research assistant in the Department of...
Brian Pedersen
The Corliss Knapp Engle Scholarship in Horticulture
Research Engineering at Plenty Unlimited Pedersen supervises the research spaces used by...
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...
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...
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 ...
Erin Forstner
The Garden Club of America Award in Desert Studies
Summer Internship at Desert Botanical Garden Forstner’s summer internship at Desert...
Eva Coleman
The Elizabeth Gardner Norweb Summer Environmental Studies Scholarship
Eastern Himalayan Forests and Biodiversity Coleman will conduct summer studies in Bhutan at...
Evan Hockridge
The Garden Club of America Fellowship in Tropical Botany
Islands in the Forest: Spatiotemporal Patterns of Ecosystem Structure, Composition, and Function...
Giovanna Figueroa
The Garden Club of America Fellowship in Tropical Botany
Phylogeographic Study of the Economically Important Palm Tree Oenocarpus bataua in Northwestern...
Jacklyn Alsbro
The Clara Carter Higgins Summer Environmental Studies Scholarship
Demmer Scholars Program—Natural-Resource Policy Internship and Embedded Class Alsbro...
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...
Julia Harenčár
The Garden Club of America Fellowship in Tropical Botany
Combining Ecology and Genetics to Understand Species Boundaries in Neotropical Gingers ...
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...
Katelyn Fulcher
The Katharine M. Grosscup Scholarships in Horticulture
Seed and seedling responses to leaf litter depth along a domestication gradient in chile pepper:...
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...