Scholarship Information
We appreciate your financial support of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. Your gifts can go to funding student travel to meetings, undergraduate and graduate scholarships, lecture series, laboratory enhancements, and other initiatives. To learn more about establishing gifts in kind and bequests, please contact the University of Florida Foundation office directly. Our Foundation Officer is Norman Portillo, E-mail: nportillo@uff.ufl.edu. He will help direct your donation to the appropriate mission of the department.
To donate directly to CSD on-line click here.
There are currently three scholarship programs in our department:
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Edna Povey Undergraduate Scholarship - A scholarship given to an undergraduate student with exemplary academics and a profile characterized by dedication to scholarship and care for the treatment of patients with communicative disorders.
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Thomas B. Abbott Scholarship - Two scholarships rewarding graduate students for exemplary academics, one in each of the primary disciplines of audiology and speech language pathology.
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Karen Klenberg Scholarship - This is for non-traditional graduate students, particularly those students pursuing careers later in life. The awardee must also demonstrate excellent clinical and interpersonal skills characterized by warmth and integrity.
If you would like to contribute to the department, no donation is considered too small.
Checks are also welcome, in any amount. Please make out your check to the fund
to which you wish to contribute, and send it to:
Attention: Office Manager, Debbie Butler
Department of
Communication Disorders and Sciences
PO Box 117420
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611
