The Garden Club of America Fellowship in Tropical Botany

The Garden Club of America Fellowship in Tropical Botany promotes the preservation of tropical forests by enlarging the body of botanists with field experience. This fellowship provides two or more grants of $5,500 annually to enable field study in tropical botany, supporting PhD candidates enrolled at U.S.-based institutions who anticipate completing their doctoral requirements within two years. Generally, one grant is awarded in the area of tropical plant systematics and a second is awarded in tropical forest ecology. The fellowship has been supporting doctoral candidates pursuing independent field study in the tropics since 1983, when it was established as the Arundel Scholarship with a grant from the Wildcat Foundation. The program is overseen by the National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG) as of October 2023 and is designed to support students committed to tropical conservation research.