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Lucretia B. Hamilton Scholarship

A scholarship in honor of the late Lucretia Breazeale Hamilton is available to an undergraduate or graduate in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. 

This year one award will be available in the amount of $400.

Deadline:

Eligibility:

• An undergraduate or graduate student with a major in General Biology, Biology or Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
  
  
• You must be full-time, and continuously enrolled at the University of Arizona through the Fall of 2007.

To apply, submit:

• Application form (available in the EEB office)
• Copy of transcripts (unofficial copies will be accepted)
• One letter of support/recommendation from an academic source
• A one-page personal statement outlining your interest in biology and your career goals

Lucretia Hamilton was a noted scientific illustrator, and completed botanical illustrations for numerous publications, including Lyman D. Benson's chapter on cacti in Flora of Texas and An Illustrated Guide to Arizona Weeds. The Soil Conservation Service, the University of Arizona, and the Forestry Service also employed her pen and ink drawings. She and her family were long time Tucson residents, who came to the state from Virginia. While studying for her B.S. in botany from the University of Arizona, she began her career as botanical artist by doing illustrations for her botany notebooks. Some of her first work was for E. D. Ball, the entomologist, who taught her to draw grasshoppers in pen and ink.