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Your donation supports Cushman members through awards, fellowships, and publications. For more information, please visit the Grants & Awards and Special Publications pages. Thank you for your contribution.

Buzas Award for Travel Endowment

Supports travel to visit the Cushman Collection of foraminifera at the Smithsonian Institution, NMNH, in Washington, D.C.

Contribution for Publication

Funds are used to offset publication costs as need arise.

General Endowment Donation

Contributions are used by the Foundation for awards, publications, or events with the most need.

Johanna M. Resig Fellowship

Awarded ammually to advance doctoral students planning a career in foraminifera.

Joseph A. Cushman Award for Excellence in Research

The Joseph A. Cushman Award honors established researchers who have made outstanding contributions in the field of foraminiferology. The Cushman Foundation invites nominations from anyone within the profession of candidates who have excelled in foraminiferology. All will be considered at the Board of Director's regular business meetings.

Joseph A. Cushman Award for Student Travel

Many Joseph A. Cushman awards are given each year to help finance graduate and undergraduate student travel.

Joseph A. Cushman Student Research Grant

Many Joseph A. Cushman awards are given each year to help finance graduate and undergraduate student research.

Loeblich and Tappan Student Awards

Support graduate and undergraduate research in a variety of protists.

Retiree Research/Travel Grants

Retired members of the Cushman Foundation without other financial resources may apply for funds up to $2000 for research and travel dealing with any aspect of living or fossil foraminifera or other protists, such as diatoms, coccolithophorids, dinoflagellates, acritarchs, or radiolaria.

Sliter Student Awards

Assists graduate students in their research on Mesozoic or Cenozoic foraminifera.

Special Publication Series

Longer publications, such as atlases and systematics, are made possible through the Cushman Foundation’s Special Publications series.

W. Storrs Cole Memorial Research Award

Established to support research in invertebrate micropaleontology, this award is given each year to a GSA Member or Fellow between 30 and 65 years of age who has published one or more significant papers on micropaleontology.