Scholarships

Below is information about the two New Jersey Mosquito Control Association scholarships available for students doing graduate work in mosquito biology.  The Daniel Jobbins Scholarship is available for Rutgers graduate students and the NJMCA Educational Scholarship is available for non-Rutgers graduate students.  The application forms are in pdf format, requiring Acrobat Reader.  You can obtain a free copy of the reader through Adobe.

For additional information regarding the scholarships, please contact Sean Healy, NJMCA Scholarship Committee, Phone: 732-542-3630, Fax: 732-542-3267, or email: shealy@co.monmouth.nj.us 

Objective: To honor the contributions of the late Daniel M. Jobbins to the sciences of mosquito research and control and his service to mosquito control agencies in New Jersey; and to promote and recognize the mosquito research of graduate students at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Scholarship Amount: $4,000.00 One scholarship will be awarded annually.

Candidate qualifications

• The applicant must be a fulltime matriculating student in an accredited graduate program at Rutgers University.

• The graduate student must be conducting or recently have completed significant research in mosquitoes, their biology and practical control.

Application Procedure

• Fill out NJMCA D. M. Jobbins Scholarship Application form.

• Submit a statement of the research in four (4) pages or less.

• Include a resume or curriculum vitae.

• Provide a letter of recommendation from the major advisor.

• Submit six (6) copies of the completed application to:

New Jersey Mosquito Control Association, Inc.

Scholarship Committee

c/o Sean Healy

Monmouth County Mosquito Commission

P.O. Box 162

Eatontown, New Jersey 07724

Method of Selection: The recipient of the award will be chosen by the Scholarship Committee of the NJMCA.

Application Deadline: The application form, research statement, curriculum vitae, and letter of recommendation must be received by the secretary, NJMCA no later than Monday March 2, 2009.

Recipient responsibilities:

• The student will be invited as a guest of NJMCA to receive the scholarship at the annual meeting.

• The student must perform his/her research to the best of his/her abilities.

• The student will present a paper one year following receipt of the scholarship to the assembled membership at its annual meeting as a guest of the NJMCA.

Objective: To promote and recognize the research of graduate students in a curriculum that may be peripheral to mosquito control but whose research uses or impacts mosquitoes in a manner that contributes new information to the mosquito control community. This award is limited to students in a graduate program at a College/University in New Jersey.

Scholarship Amount: $1,000.00 (One Thousand Dollars). One scholarship will be awarded annually.

Candidate Qualifications

• The applicant must be a fulltime matriculating student in an accredited graduate program at a College/University in New Jersey.

• The graduate student must be conducting or recently have completed research that contributes new information to the mosquito control community.

Application Procedure

• Fill out NJMCA Educational Scholarship Application form.

• Submit a statement of the research in four (4) pages or less.

• Include a resume or curriculum vitae.

• Provide a letter of recommendation from the major advisor.

• Submit six (6) copies of the completed application to:

New Jersey Mosquito Control Association, Inc.

Scholarship Committee

c/o Sean Healy

Monmouth County Mosquito Commission

P.O. Box 162

Eatontown, New Jersey 07724

Method of Selection: The recipient of the award will be chosen by the Scholarship Committee of the NJMCA.

Application Deadline:  The application form, research statement, curriculum vitae, and letter of recommendation must be received by the secretary, NJMCA no later than Monday March 2, 2009.

Recipient responsibilities:

• The student will be invited as a guest of NJMCA to receive the scholarship at the annual meeting.

• The student must perform his/her research to the best of his/her abilities.

• The student will present a paper one year following receipt of the scholarship to the assembled membership at its annual meeting as a guest of the NJMCA.