Mendocino College to Award Scholarships for Science Students
February Deadline for donations to MCAS 2026 Scholarship Fund
Mendocino College will award two Mendocino Coast Audubon scholarships to science students in May. To be included in this spring’s awards, donations must be received before the end of February.
Checks to the MCAS Scholarship Fund should be mailed to Jim Havlena, Treasurer, MCAS, P.O. Box 2297, Fort Bragg, CA 95437.
Charles Bowen received the 2025 MCAS Greg Grantham Scholarship. He received an Associate of Science Degree from Mendocino College and was accepted to the University of California, Davis. We reached out to him and asked him how things are going.
“UC Davis has been a thrilling experience with new challenges and interesting, diverse classes,” he writes. The transition from a semester system to the quarter system can be alarming, but that (after a bit) becomes normal. I have been progressing, learning a lot about soils and water science. I believe I will be aiming towards an environmental policy analysis and planning degree with an emphasis on conservation management. In doing that, I want to help build communities which gain both intrinsic value and utility from the environment where we live and earn our livelihoods, much like what you have done with your scholarships. Mendocino County is still definitely home. There’s so much to bring fourth when the time comes. Thank you.”
If good planning, the right opportunity and a dose of good luck prevail after he completes his studies at the university, Charles will return to work on the Mendocino Coast, where he has studied the local environment and habitat since he was a pupil at Redwood Elementary School in Fort Bragg. We look forward to following his progress. We think it’s a good story.
Mendocino Coast Audubon Society supports funding for annual natural science scholarships at Mendocino College in cooperation with Mendocino College Foundation and Mendocino College Coastal Field Station. These scholarship funds come from a bequest by Huldie R. Clark, monies approved by the MCAS Board of Directors, MCAS members, and members of the community. Scholarship recipients are selected by science faculty staff based on academic achievement, financial need, and participation in laboratory research at the college Field Station near Point Arena:
https//www.mendocino.edu/about/mlccd/our-campus/mendocino-college-coastal-field-station
Donations for the 2026 scholarships can be made to the MCAS Brandon Pill Memorial Scholarship Fund and/or the MCAS Professor Greg Grantham Memorial Scholarship Fund. Brandon Pill graduated from College of the Redwoods in 2013. Professor Greg Grantham, who developed the Marine Science Technology Program on the Fort Bragg campus of the College of the Redwoods, taught at the school from 1984-2012. Please contact MCAS Scholarship Chair Judy Steele for more information: judys@mcn.org
