Samantha C. Ying Gamma Theta Upsilon Scholarship


The Samantha C. Ying Gamma Theta Upsilon Scholarship is named in honor of one of our distinguished alumna and supports undergraduate student(s), based on the criteria of academic achievement and compelling family/personal circumstances. Highest consideration will be given to those students who are active or contributing members of the UCSB Geography Club (the Theta Nu Chapter of Gamma Theta Upsilon), and the award is available to all declared Geography majors (including freshmen) who meet the above criteria.

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Dr. Samantha C. Ying received a BS in both Microbiology and Geography from UCSB in 2004 and her PhD from Stanford in 2011. Her Geochemistry dissertation, “Competitive Microbial & Geochemical Processes Controlling the Fate of Arsenic,” was accepted without revision in 2011.

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UCSB’s chapter of the national geographical honor society Gamma Theta Upsilon (GTU) has been around since 1998, but it hadn’t been active for a number of years until 2006 when a small group of Geography students (above) met to make plans for reviving the society. Since then, GTU has thrived as an official campus organization, and the Samantha C. Ying Gamma Theta Upsilon Scholarship is bound to further increase and encourage its membership.