Scholarships

The UWMC Foundation annually awards scholarships to incoming, continuing or transferring students. Scholarships and Awards eligibility information and history are listed below.

Applications are accepted in January, and recipients are recognized at an awards program in May of each year.

Please note:

• "entering" student: a new student at UWMC
• "continuing" student: a student who has attended UWMC and is continuing at UWMC in the coming fall semester
• "leaving" student: a student who is transferring

Scholarships, Eligibility Criteria & Recipients

Scholarship Details (printable PDF)

• Ahrnsbrak Award for Unselfish Leadership
• Ambassador Awards
• Steve Anderson Scholarship
• Anita Appel Scholarships
• Anita Appel Artist Award
• Appel Art Majors Study/Travel Awards
• Appel International Study/Travel Awards
• Aspirus Scholarships
• Opal Elder Barker Memorial Scholarship
• Blood Center of Northcentral Wisconsin Scholarship
• Boys and Girls Club Scholarship
• Fred W. Braun Scholarship
• Gerald A. Brost Scholarship
• Dale R. Coenen Memorial Scholarship
• Koby Crabtree Biological Sciences Awards
• Departmental Distinction Awards
• Design for Diversity Scholarship
• Diversity Club Student Leadership Scholarships
• Robert A. & Valda J. Embree Scholarship
• Festival of Arts Award
• Freshman Scholar-Athlete
• Greenheck Fan Corporation Scholarships
• Frank Gonzalez, Jr. Memorial Scholarship
• Lee Grugel Memorial Scholarship
• Thomas Hammer Memorial Awards
• Dr. Bryan Hendricks & John Runkel Outstanding Student Scholarship
• Carlton Hill Memorial Scholarships
• Honors Program Scholarships – First-Year Student
• Honors Program Scholarships - Sophomores
• Jason Hoogland Memorial Scholarship
• Jason Hoogland Memorial Nursing Scholarship
• Amy Whittenberg Hosler Memorial Scholarship
• Instrumental Music Scholarship
• Richard Issod Memorial Award
• E.O. and LaVerne Johnson Scholarship
• Merle Kaufman Award
• Professor John W. Kelly Sr. Scholarship
• Clinton Randall Kidder Sunrise Scholarship
• Kiwanis Club of Greater Wausau Scholarship
• Edward H. and Katherine Kuhlmann Memorial Scholarship
• Liberal Arts Scholarship
• James and Donna Lorence History Award
• Marathon County Leadership Scholarship
• Marathon State Bank Scholarship
• Marathon to Marathon Scholarship
• Marshfield Clinic Scholarship
• Naomi Roberts Martin Scholarship
• Dennis Massey Scholarship
• Marlys Matuszak Scholarship
• Elizabeth McCoy Memorial Science Award
• Gerald G. Miller Memorial Scholarship
• Murco Foundation Scholarships
• Thomas and Mary Murphy Scholarships
• Harvey Nelson Foundation Scholarships
• Robert & Ruby Neugebauer Scholarships
• New Tradition Scholarship
• John S. Newberry, Jr. Award for Creativity
• Nicholas Scholars Scholarship
• Corrie and Clay Norrbom Scholarship
• David and Joan Obey Award
• Peter A. Okray Memorial Scholarship
• Jerome Onheiber Memorial Scholarship
• Irene R. Perry Memorial Scholarship
• Petersdorf Scholarship
• Gladys Phillips Awards of Merit
• Henry Phillips Scholarship for Big Brothers Big Sisters at UWMC
• Henry Phillips Scholarship for Boys and Girls Club at UWMC
• Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship
• Rosemarie Rud Vocal Music Scholarship
• John H Runkel Scholarships
• Dorothy Jacqueline Schinker Memorial Scholarship
• Clyde F. Schlueter Foundation Scholarship
• William R. Schmitz Science Award
• Cornelia Seim Scholarships
• Sentry Insurance Foundation Scholarships
• Sentry Insurance Foundation Nursing Scholarship
• James W. Skinner Memorial Scholarships
• Jim and Susan Skinner Scholarship Fund:
  • Jack Gorman Memorial Scholarship
  • James Mealey Memorial Scholarship
  • Norman (Miskowski) Mitchell Memorial Scholarship
  • Robert Tesch Memorial Scholarship
• Max Sparger Scholar-Athlete Award
• St. Clare’s Hospital Foundation Healthcare Scholarships
• Frank J. Steffes Memorial Scholarship
• Verna & Henry Steffes Scholarship
• Student Government Association Leadership Scholarship
• Carol A. Tobakos Memorial Scholarship
• Town of Texas Lions Club Scholarship
• George and Marian Urban Family Scholarship
• UW-Madison Alumni Association Scholarships & UW-Madison Alumni Association Matching Scholarships
• UWMC Bookstore Co-op Scholarship
• UWMC Food Co-op Scholarship
• UWMC Foundation EATS Corporate Sponsored Scholarships
• UWMC Foundation EATS Scholarships
• UWMC Foundation Scholarships
• UWMC Leadership Scholarship
• UW-Oshkosh Transfer Scholarship
• William J. (Bill) Van Ermen Memorial Scholarship
• Marion Viste Anthropology Scholarship Established in Honor of Her Former Professor Clyde Kuckhohn
• Vocal Music Scholarship
• Wausau Area Junior Women’s Club Scholarship
• Wausau Fresh Start Scholarships
• Wausau Lyric Choir Scholarship
• Wausau Breakfast Optimists Scholarship
• Wausau-Stettin Lions Club Scholarship
• Samuel Weiner Award for Academic Excellence
• Weyerhaeuser Foundation Scholarship
• Shaun L. Winter Memorial Scholarship
• Wisconsin Academic Decathlon Scholarship
• Wisconsin Valley Art Association Scholarship
• Nancy Woodson Spire Foundation Scholarship
• Gregory M. Zabrowski Memorial Scholarship
  

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