Awards and Scholarships Information

Center For Colorado & The West Internships

The Center for Colorado & The West specializes in commissoned histories by highly qualified CU-Denver Grad students. This helps our students fund their ever more expensive education with a publication that both the student and the client can be proud. Take advantage of this oppurtunity to tell the story of families, residences, neighborhoods, churches, businesses or any other topic. For a modest fee, paid directly to an up and coming graduate student, you will receive a professional, illustrated book, booklet, CD, or any other desired format. For examples, which may be found at http://coloradowest.auraria.edu/, please see:

Kathleen Barlow's The Equitable: Denver's Grand Old Office Building, Spirits and Scandals at 17th and Stout Streets.

Biographical Profiles of Colorado First Ladies and of philanthropist Robert Frank Sweeney.

For more information, please contact Prof. Tom Noel at tom.noel@ucdenver.edu

$1,000 Ward Family Public History Prize

This $1,000Prize is given each spring to the CU-Denver history student or graduate who has done the most to promote history among the public through educational activities, historic preservation, publications, tours, talks and other efforts to foster a sense of place and appreciation of the past as a guide to the future. All CU-Denver History students – undergraduate, graduate, and graduated -- are invited to apply for this $1,000 prize given each spring by Tom & Judy Ward to recognize outstanding work in public history.

Please nominate yourself with the following items which should be sent to Ward Prize Coordinator, Prof. Tom Noel, Campus Box 182, 855 Lawrence St. Room 546, P.O. Box 173364, Denver, CO 80217-3364. You may also slip your application under the door at King Center, Room 546.

* A two page letter addressed to Ward Family Prize in Public History Committee explaining your interest in and achievements in Public History

* Your resume (curriculum vita)

Thanks for applying. The deadline for getting a hard copy nomination to Prof. Noel is March 17 annually. Questions?:tom.noel@ucdenver.edu.

$5,000 Koch Fellowship at Colorado Historical Society

Don Koch, a Colorado historian and author, established the Donald Warner Koch History Fund which endows fellowships for CU-Denver graduate students and highly qualified undergraduates enrolled in history programs. Fellows gain training and experience in archival management, collections management, education, historic preservation, librarianship, museology, public history and publications. Don was educated at Brandeis, Princeton and CU-Denver. He published The Colorado Pass Book and An Endless Vista: Colorado Recreational Lands. Don also worked for various government agencies and published numerous articles and documents on land use, environmental matters and economic development. An avid outdoorsman and sailor, he was working on a guide to Colorado water sports when he died in 2000. As part of his legacy he left these fellowships to encourage future Colorado historians.

Koch/CU-Denver History Fellowships at the Colorado History Museum pays the student fellow $5,000 a year to spend an average of 8 hours a week at the CHS under the direction of William J. Convery, State Historian. To apply, submit by March 17 annually:

1) letter of application addressed to the Koch Fellowship Committee discussing your interest in Colorado history and how this fellowship will advance your education, and,

2) your resume with two references

3) your transcript

4) a writing sample of 3-4 pages.

Applicants must be currently enrolled in a graduate or undergraduate history degree program. Past winners of the Koch Fellowship are all eligible. An interview is required.

Submit applications and inquiries to CU-Denver Koch Fellow Coordinator Prof. Tom Noel, 303-556-2044 or tom.noel@ucdenver.edu. King Center 546, Campus Box 182, P.O. Box 173364, Denver, CO 80217-3364. We welcome your application, which must be in hard copy.

$1,000 David Own Tryba Architects Historic Preservation Prize

David Tryba, a CU-Denver graduate in architecture and noted Denver architect and preservationist, offers the $1,000 Tryba Prize for Historic Preservation to a CU-Denver student or graduate doing outstanding work in historic preservation.

To apply, write a one page letter explaining your work in historic preservation addressed to Mr. David Tryba. Send it and a resume to Prof. Tom Noel, History Dept. CU-Denver, Tryba Prize Administrator, Campus Box 182, 855 Lawrence St. Room 546, P.O. Box 173364, Denver, CO 80217-3364. You may also slip your application under Prof. Noel's door at King Center, Room 546.

Thanks for applying. The deadline for applications is April 1 annually. If you have any question contact tom.noel@ucdenver.edu.

$5,500 Coulter Colorado History Scholarships

Deadline for Coulter Colorado History Scholarships: March 17th annually.