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Dear UTK Geography,

This is a reminder that 2015 – 2016 Cycle of the UTK Geography’s Stewart K. McCroskey Memorial Fund has 3 calls over the academic year:

October 15, 2015 
January 15, 2016
April 15, 2016

We currently have no pending applications for the the January 15, 2016 leg of the fund.

Please join me in Congratulating the Awardess for the October 15, 2016 leg  of the fund:

Erik Johanson
Maegan Rochner
Matthew Kerr

The Stewart K. McCroskey Memorial fund was established in 1993 by the McCroskey family to

honor and foster the memory of Stewart K. McCroskey. Stewart, who was a graduate student in

Geography at the time of his illness and death, was especially interested in the people of the

Caribbean and their relationships to their environment. His research examined water

management strategies on the dry island of Antigua, but he was sincerely interested in a wide

range of geographic questions and environments. Ongoing contributions continue to strengthen

the Stewart K. McCroskey memorial Fund. The Fund is, in part, an endowment managed to

produce income over the long-term and, in part, intended to be dispensed in the short-term, while

Stewart’s presence in the department remains fresh in the memory of those who knew him.


Guidelines for application to the fund (attached) are not onerous (a 2 page proposal including budget and faculty advisor support letter) and can be found at : http://geography.utk.edu/McCROSKEYFUNDGUIDELINE.pdf
or by going to the Research Tab on the left side of the UTK Geography website Home Page and Scrolling down to the McCroskey Memorial Fu

The Purpose and Eligibility for the fund is:

 To support field research by graduate students, rising senior and senior undergraduate

students, and faculty members in Geography.

 To assist geography students with cost of attending professional meetings, and special

seminars, and workshops.

 To purchase specialized field equipment and supplies, not to exceed $500 per grantee.


 Kindest regards,

Robert A. Washington-Allen, 2015 Chair of the Stewart K. McCroskey Memorial Fund
Assistant Professor of Geography
Environmental Tomography Laboratory
Department of Geography
University of Tennessee
304 Burchfiel Geography Building
1000 Phillip Fulmer Way
Knoxville, TN 37996-0925
Cell: 979-571-4330
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