Cardinal & Gold Scholarships
The Cardinal & Gold Scholarship program, which began in 2011, stresses the importance of creating Iowa State University legacies with financial support from Iowa State alumni and friends for current, first-generation ISU students from the state of Iowa.
The ISU Alumni Association Cardinal & Gold Scholarshipannually awards $1,000 each to six upperclassmen (as defined by credit hours) from the state of Iowa representing each of Iowa State’s undergraduate colleges (depending on qualified applicants). The Association’s goal is to endow all six scholarships using a portion of the proceeds from the Cardinal & Gold Gala as well as direct donations from individual donors. As of February 2016, all of the original six ISU Alumni Association Cardinal and Gold Gala Scholarships have been fully endowed! Our new goal is to increase these scholarships to $2,000 each.
The Craig and Terry Denny ISU Alumni Association Cardinal & Gold College of Human Sciences Scholarship was endowed by Craig (’71) and Terry (72’) in 2014. Following Terry's untimely death in 2014, Craig announced the creation of the Terry Marie Denny ISU Alumni Association Cardinal & Gold College of Engineering Scholarship at the 2015 Cardinal & Gold Gala in Des Moines. Both scholarships are fully endowed and provide at least $1,000 to first generation ISU undergraduate students from the state of Iowa. In 2014, Craig completed the endowment of the ISUAA Board of Directors Cardinal & Gold Leadership/Terry Denny Memorial Scholarship. This $1,000 scholarship is given to a current student at ISU who displays outstanding leadership qualities.
In 2013, Lora and Russ Talbot of Belmond, Iowa fully endowed the Lora & Russ Talbot ISU Alumni Association Cardinal & Gold College of Veterinary Medicine Scholarship to ensure that students in the College of Veterinary Medicine would also benefit from the Cardinal and Gold Scholarship Program. The Talbots contributed additional funds to their scholarship endowment in 2014 making it possible for a third-year Veterinary Medicine student who graduated from a high school in Iowa to receive a $2,000 award. In 2016, Lora and Russ again increased their scholarship endowment to expand their scholarship program to two students each receiving two-year scholarships. Each year a new third-year student will be selected. The scholarship the third-year student receives will be renewed automatically for the fourth year as a Veterinary Medicine Student, and that award will be increased to $3,000.
If you would like to have additional information about the Association’s scholarship program, make a donation, or endow a Cardinal & Gold Scholarship in your name or as a memorial, please contact Chelsea Trowbridge at ctrow@iastate.edu. We greatly appreciate your support of this high priority and significant initiative. You are helping to make a difference in the lives of our students.
