Rex Monahan Geological Scholarship
The Colorado Section's Rex Monahan Geological Scholarship Fund was started by generous gifts from Rex Monahan of Sterling, CO. Subsequently, donations from individual members and from the Section's Treasury have increased the principal in the fund to over $40,000. The Section generally awards two $1,000 scholarships each year, one to an undergraduate and one to a graduate student. Awardees must be registered at a Colorado college or university with a recognized geoscience program and be a Student member of AIPG.
The Section selects recipients for the Rex Monahan Geological Scholarship from Colorado applicants to National AIPG’s undergraduate and graduate scholarship programs. Therefore, students who wish to be considered for the Colorado Section’s scholarship must apply through the National AIPG scholarship program. It is not necessary to specify that you wish to be considered for the Rex Monahan Geological Scholarship as any student from a Colorado college or university will be automatically considered.
Rex Monahan, CPG-424, 2005 Recipient - AIPG Honorary Membership Award
Rex started his career in the petroleum industry in 1950, after having served as an infantry officer in Europe in World War II. Upon graduating from college, he moved to Sidney, Nebraska, to work in the oil field as a roughneck for Loffland Brothers Drilling Company. After about a year as a roughneck, his independent oil business began where he developed geologic prospects and raised money to drill wells. Rex has drilled or been a party to drilling, approximately 200 exploratory wells in Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, and Arkansas. This drilling resulted in 40 discoveries, most of which were commercial. He currently operates producing wells in Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas. Read more.
Donate to the Scholarship Fund
Consider contributing to the Scholarship Fund. Why? the Colorado Section's Scholarship Fund is new and growing slowly with other members' contributions. The Scholarship Fund was established to support one or more undergraduate and/or graduate students in Colorado as they pursue geological degrees and will provide assistance towards tuition or travel to field camps, research and thesis preparation, travel to present the results of thesis work, and recognizing excellence in scholarship and leadership.
Please support the students who are the future of the geologic profession.
Mail a check made out to Colorado Section AIPG, and send it to the Section Treasurer. Go to the Colorado Section Officer list for contact information.
The Scholarship Fund and Future Geologists Thank You!
