Scholarships

2024-25 FSN Scholarship Recipients

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2023-24 FSN Scholarship Recipients

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2021-22 FSN Scholarship Recipients

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FSN Scholarships 

Availability and/or amount of funding of scholarships listed varies each year. 

If you would like to be considered, please complete, or update the scholarship application by clicking the Cal Poly Scholarship link under My Apps in the MyCalPoly portal. 

If you have any questions or need additional information please email financial aid at financialaid@calpoly.edu.

Scholarships are one of many ways of financing an education. Please investigate the additional resources available to you through the College of Agriculture, Food & Environmental Sciences and the Financial Aid Office websites. The Financial Aid Office helps you plan your finances and organize your resources to cover your college costs. The types and amounts of aid that Cal Poly awards, or recommends, are subject to availability of funds, enrollment status, and financial need. Cal Poly students have a variety of financial aid programs available for assistance. Programs vary in eligibility criteria, award amounts, and repayment options.

Below are scholarships specific to the Food Science and Nutrition Department: 

Jessica Gavin Scholarship Program    

• Major: Food Science 
• Class level: open
• Bi-Annual Deadlines: December 15 and July 15
• Style: Essay, click here for topic 

Distinguished Order of Zerocrats Scholarships

• Major: Food Science
• Class level: Open
• Financial need optional

Kim and Steven Butler Food Science

• Major: Food Science
• Class level: Graduate
• Financial need 
• Minimum 3.0 GPA
• Preference: Meat and Poultry concentration

William, Joseph and Charles Cattaneo Memorial     

• Minimum 3.0 GPA
• Class level: junior or senior
• Food science or nutrition major
• Preference to handicapped student 

Arthur and Margaret Foster Food Science and Nutrition     

• Major: food science or nutrition
• Class level: open
• Financial need
• CA resident

H.J. Heinz

• Major: Food Science and Nutrition (split with Agribusiness, Crop Science)
• Class level Undergrad
• Financial need
• Minimum 3.0 GPA
• Preference for students from Colusa, Contra Costa, Fresno, Sacremento, San Juaquin, Solano, Stanislaus, and Yolo counties

Ruth A. Hitt Memorial    

• Minimum 2.0 GPA
• Class level: Undergraduate 
• Financial need
• Preference to student with FFA, Grange and/or 4H background 

Beatrice Lunday Memorial

• Major: Nutrition
• Class level: Grad
• Minimum 3.0 GPA

Charles and Helen Penwell     

• Minimum 2.7 GPA 
• Strong interest in dietetics 
• Class level: junior or senior

Mimi Russell Memorial     

• Major: Food Science or Nutrition
• Minimum 2.7 GPA
• Financial need optional 

San Marcos Grange Women's Activities Committee     

• First preference food science major
• Class level: Undergraduate
• Minimum 2.5 GPA
• Emphasis on food processing
• Preference for 4-H, FFA, and/or Grange background
• Financial need 

Senspire     

• Major: Food science 
• Class level: Junior or Senior
• Minimum GPA 3.0
• Financial need 

California League of Food Producers

• Strong interest and intention of working in the California food processing, allied California industry or the United States
• Work history in the industry or evidence of interest in activities related to major 
• Financial need
• U.S. citizens or permanent residents in the process of becoming U.S. citizens
• Minimum 2.7 GPA
• CLFP requests students indicate interest by registering on their website. Students who have applied through the CLFP website are noted on the population report

College-Wide Scholarships for FSN Selection

Noel Carr Family Scholarship

• Major: Any in CAFES
• Class level: Open
• Min GPA: 3.0
• Financial need 

CAFES Cal Poly Scholars

• Major: open in CAFES
• Class level: Open
• Financial need optional
• Must be a high achieving from a Cal Poly Partner High School

Concord Farm Bureau   

• Major: open in CAFES
• Class level: Open
• Financial need optional
• Must show interest in major, Cal Poly, and their community
• Student is originally from Contra Costa county

Elmer W. Eade and Francis Dorothy Eade 

• Major: open in CAFES
• Class level: incoming freshmen and transfer students 
• Financial need optional

Frank W. Pinkert Memorial Scholarship Quasi Endowment

• Major: open in CAFES
• Class level: Open
• Financial need optional

George M. and Claude S. Barnett Memorial

• Major: open in CAFES
• Class level: Open
• Financial need optional

J. Cordner Gibson Memorial

• Major: open in CAFES
• Class level: Open
• Financial need 

John and Carol Salmonson

• Major: open in CAFES
• Class level: sophmore or above
• Financial need
• Minimum 2.75 GPA
• Must be a California resident and U.S. citizen

Kings River Prune & Apricot

• Major: open in CAFES
• Class level: Open
• Financial need optional
• Must be from Kings County

Lewis Gill Family

• Major: open in CAFES
• Class level: incoming freshmen
• Financial need optional
• Must have graduated from a high school in Ventura County

Pacific Premier Bank

• Major: open in CAFES
• Class level: Open
• Financial need optional

Ranchers Cotton Oil/Earl J. Cecil

• Major: open in CAFES
• Class level: Open
• Financial need optional
• Must have demonstrated in interest in major

Rick Antle Memorial

• Major: open in CAFES
• Class level: sophomore, junior, and senior
• Financial need 
• Minimum 2.5 GPA
• Prefer Monterery County resident

Richard E. Harrison

• Major: open in CAFES
• Class level: incoming freshmen 
• Financial need optional

John S. Maher     

• Major: open in CAFES
• Class level: junior or senior
• Financial need optional
• Minimum 2.5 GPA

Frace Family Agriculture

• Major: Open in CAFES
• Class level: Open
• Financial need optional
• Minimum 2.0 GPA

M.E. "Pappy" Painter

• Major: Open in CAFES
• Class level: Open
• Financial need
• Prefer CA resident
• Eligible for federal aid

William (Ben) and Helen Holman

• Major: open in CAFES
• Class level: junior, senior, and graduate
• Financial need optional

William R. Verdugo

• Major: Open in CAFES
• Class level: Open
• Recommend 3.0 GPA

William Randolph Hearst Foundation

• Major: open in CAFES
• Class level: incoming freshmen 
• Financial need optional
• Must be a Merit Scholar Finalists