Chancellor’s Merit Scholarship

All prospective freshmen are automatically considered for the Chancellor’s Merit Scholarship. Based on your unweighted high school GPA, this scholarship provides an annual award amount of $500 (3.4-3.74 GPA), $1000 (3.75-3.99 GPA), or $1500 (4.0 GPA) and is renewable for up to four years so long as you remain in good academic standing at UWM.

No special application is necessary! For more information on this and other scholarships, please see the Undergraduate Admissions Scholarships and Financial Aid page.

Bill Carlsen Undergraduate Scholarship

Bill Carlsen, WTMJ weathercaster from 1951–1972, was one of the United States’ first television weathercasters. A scholarship in his name, administered jointly by UWM and WTMJ, has been established in his memory. Scholarship awards typically range between $250-1000, with one to four recipients per year. Recipients must be atmospheric science majors at UWM and have residency in southeast Wisconsin.

Deadline: March 15, 2023

To apply for this scholarship, you need to complete your basic profile and the scholarship application in the UWM Scholarship Portal. You do not need to create a new profile if you previously created one, although you are welcome to update any of the information.

Petrie Family Scholarship

The Petrie Family Scholarship provides two $500 scholarships annually to undergraduate students pursuing a degree in the School of Freshwater Sciences, including atmospheric science.

Deadline: March 15, 2023

To apply for this scholarship, you need to complete your basic profile and the scholarship application in the UWM Scholarship Portal. You do not need to create a new profile if you previously created one, although you are welcome to update any of the information.

Verner E. Suomi Scholarship

The Verner E. Suomi Scholarship, in memory of the “father of satellite meteorology” and founder of UW-Madison’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, provides up to three $3000 scholarships annually to incoming college freshmen pursuing a major in the atmospheric or related sciences at any UW System institution.

Deadline: April 14, 2023

To apply for this scholarship, you must complete the application from the UW-Madison Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies.

Additional Scholarship Opportunities

See Prof. Evans’s Scholarships and Fellowships webpage to learn more about external scholarships available to Atmospheric Science majors, or visit UWM’s general scholarship webpage to learn more about internal scholarships available to all majors.