|
Since 1994 Alpha Association of Colorado has awarded $37,000 in scholarships to 25 Phi Beta Kappa members who were either beginning or continuing their graduate studies.
This year Alpha Association of Colorado will award one $4,000 scholarship for a Colorado ΦΒΚ initiate or member to begin or continue graduate school. The purpose of the scholarship is to further the pursuit of knowledge and academic excellence.
Who May Apply: Any ΦΒΚ member or initiate who meets one of the following criteria:
- has received, or will be receiving, an undergraduate degree from a Colorado university or college
- has been accepted for, or is currently enrolled in, a graduate program at a Colorado university or college
- is residing in Colorado at the time of application
- is a current member of the Alpha Association of Colorado
How to Apply: Fill out the scholarship application form. In addition to the application, please provide, or arrange to have sent, to the Scholarship Committee the following:
- A copy of a paper you have written (a minimum of 10 and maximum of 75 pages), an 8″ by 10″ photographic print or file on CD of artwork you have created, or a recording of music you have composed as part of your undergraduate or graduate studies. Please attach a cover sheet explaining why you selected this item for submission.
- Two letters of recommendation from individuals familiar with your academic studies or recent work experience.
- Written verification of graduate enrollment for the fall 2010 term from an accredited college or university.
Payment of Scholarship: The award check will be sent to the college or university where the recipient is enrolled for the credit of the recipient.
Taxation of the Award. Scholarships are tax free to the recipient only if he or she is a candidate for a degree and the funds are for tuition and fees required for enrollment or attendance at a qualifying educational institution. The scholarship will also be tax free if it covers fees, books, supplies, and equipment for courses at such an educational institution. The portion of any scholarship that covers associated expenses, such as room and board, travel, research, clerical help, and equipment, is not tax free. Recipients of taxable scholarships should report the taxable amount on their income tax returns, and they may have to pay estimated federal and state income taxes throughout the year.
Deadline for Applications: All applications and supporting materials must be received at the following address by June 15, 2010. The award will be announced by August 15, 2010.
ΦΒΚ Alpha Association of Colorado
Scholarship Committee
c/o Gregory J. Sorensen, Executive Director
1250 Humboldt St. #1303
Denver, CO 80218
|
|
SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT FOR THE 2009-2010 ACADEMIC YEAR
|
|
|
 Paul Gansky, a 2009 graduate of the University of Colorado-Boulder, with a major in film studies, is the winner of the Alpha Association’s 2009 graduate scholarship for $4,000. Mr. Gansky was initiated into the Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in 2007.
Mr. Gansky, the first member of his family to attend college, has a long list of honors and awards. These include Mortar Board Honor Society; three prestigious awards from CU — Katherine J. Lamont Award, Eaton Humanities Award, Van Eyck Award — all for excellence in undergraduate studies; three-time winner of the Film Program’s Grillo/Goldfarb Award for best class film in Fall 2006, Spring 2007, and Fall 2007; and recipient of the First Prize Poetry Award from CU in 2005.
Mr. Gansky’s honors thesis was on the 2007 film Zodiac. The Honors Council at CU unanimously recommended that Mr. Gansky receive summa cum laude for this project. He also received the Leah Kelly Memorial Award in Socio-Political Film Criticism — the sole Film Studies Department award in the critical study of cinema — for a revised excerpt from his honors thesis. This excerpt was submitted as his writing sample for the Alpha Association scholarship application.
His short stories and poetry have been published in Look Look Magazine; his critical analyses of films by Andy Warhol and Errol Morris have been published in the TIE Monograph Magazine and Senses of Cinema; and his artwork has been published in Thrill Magazine and included in a group exhibition at the Pirate Gallery in Denver. He has worked at several film production companies in various capacities, taught a seminar on lighting and cinematography for film at CU in 2008, and this summer served as both a guest lecturer and the teaching assistant for the CU class on American Film of the 1960s and 70s.
Mr. Gansky will begin graduate study this fall at the University of Texas at Austin in an interdisciplinary master’s degree program in radio-television-film critical studies and community and social media, exploring the Southern visual vernacular in film and photography. His eventual goal is to be a professor of film and photography.
The Scholarship Committee, consisting of Cheryl Outerbridge, Gillian Bidgood, Marcia Bishop, Stacy Householder, and Bob Chado, felt that all of the scholarship applicants this year had excellent credentials. The committee members first completed a comprehensive quantitative rating form on each applicant and then selected the recommended winner after a lengthy discussion. The Alpha Association board then approved the recommendation.
|
Previous Scholarship Recipients
|
