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Scholarship Criteria Amount

The MacMillan Scholarship
  • This scholarship is for any physics major who graduated from the Omaha Public School (OPS) system.
$2000 a year

Hitchcock Scholarship

$500 a year (renewable)

Isaacson Completion Scholarship

  • For students with 12 or fewer units needed to graduate.
  • Minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0
 Depends on student

Griffiths gift

~$900

Kerrigan Physics Gifts

  • For travel (presentation at a scientific conference)

~$1000

Kerrigan Physics Gifts
  • For completion for students with 12 or fewer units needed to graduate.
  • Minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0

~$2000

Kerrigan Physics Gifts

  • For a student adding physics as a new major or a double major.

~$2000

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Contact Dr. Chris Moore for more details.

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