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Stuntz Foundation Grants

We continue to issue grants to students working toward graduate degrees in fungal taxonomy and ecology. Grants by the Foundation also have enabled several world renowned mycologists to visit the Pacific Northwest and share their knowledge with students and amateurs. Below are descriptions of the types of grants we give. You may download the Grant Application Form in MSWord for complete details.

Application Forms

Institutional Grants:

This grant application form is for grant proposals that are being submitted from an institution; a school, college, herbarium or museum are examples. It requires the involvement of at least one institutional administrator that will not directly benefit from the funding. In the case of salaries, all cost including benefits must be clearly stated. These grant proposals will be reviewed by the Board of Directors of the Foundation; outside reviewers may be contacted if appropriate. Matching funding is encouraged.

Download the Institutional Grant Application (MSWord Document: 36KB)

Individual Grants:

This grant application form is for grant proposals that are being submitted by an individual; a student, researcher, teacher, are examples. In the case of salaries, all cost including benefits must be clearly stated. These grant proposals will be reviewed by the Board of Directors of the Foundation; outside reviewers may be contacted if appropriate.

Download the Individual Grant Application (MSWord Document: 36KB)

Small Grants:

This grant application from is for use by mushroom clubs and societies within the Pacific Northwest Region, including southern British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho and western Montana. Individual grants will generally be between $250.00- $1,000.00. The Stuntz Foundation allocates $2000 per year in support of educational activities of mushroom groups."

Download the Small Grant Application (MSWord Document: 36KB)

Past Grant Recipients:

  • M.S., Stephen Rehner, 1984

    Thesis title: "A survey of agarics in Artemisia-Agropyron shrub-steppe and Salix communities of Grant Co., Washington"
  • M.S., Lu-hsi Shih, 1986 (non-thesis)

    "Basidia cytology of Laccaria species"
  • Ph.D., Stephen Rehner, 1989

    "Systematics, Mating Compatibility and Ribosomal DNA Variation in Agrocybe, section Pediadeae"
  • M.A.T., Judy Stanhope, 1990

    “A comparative study of the upper cortex of Platismatia glauca from rural and urban habitats in western Washington state”
  • M.S., Glenn Walker, 1995 (non-thesis)

    “A preliminary study of the macrofungus species richness in mature and old-growth Picea sitchensis/Tsuga heterophylla forests of the Olympic Peninsula”
  • Ph.D., Yajuan Liu, 1995

    “Molecular evolutionary studies of Dermocybe and Cortinarius species”
  • M.S., Marcangelo Puccio, 1996 (non-thesis)

    Paper: “Distribution of RAPD phenotypes in a natural population of Coprinus velox”
  • Ph.D., Katie Glew, 1998

    “Distribution and Diversity of Alpine Lichens: Biotic and Abiotic Factors Influencing Alpine Lichen Communities in the Northeast Olympic and North Cascade Mountains”
  • Ph.D., Lorelei Norvell, 1998

    “The biology and taxonomy of Pacific Northwest species of Pheocollybia Heim (Agaricales, Cortinariaceae)”
  • Ph.D., Michelle Seidl, 1999

    “Systematic studies in Cortinarius (Agaricales, Cortinariaceae) subgenus Myxacium, sections Defibulati and Myxacium in western North America”
  • M.S., Briana Timmerman, 1999

    “Dispersal in epigeous basidiomycetes: What the probability of spore settlement into various habitats and the size and relatedness of genets suggest about how fungal populations evolve and spread”
  • M.S., Suzanne Joneson, 2003

    “Ramalina of the Kuril Islands -- Phylogenetics of the Ramalina almquistii species complex”
  • Ph.D., P. Brandon Matheny, 2003

    “Molecular Systematics and Taxonomic Contributions Towards the Inocybaceae
  • Ph.D. Noelle Machnicki: in progress (Co-supervisor Josh Tewksbury) – UW

  • Ph.D. Lili Fang: in progress - UW

Grants

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Past Grant Recipients