Peanut Proud Student Scholarship Award

The Peanut Proud Student Scholarship Award provides a $2,000 academic scholarship and travel funding for a U.S. graduate student in the field of food microbiology - and specifically in the area of peanut butter food safety - to attend the IAFP Annual Meeting. Peanut Proud is a nonprofit industry organization based in Georgia. 

The deadline to apply for the Peanut Proud Student Scholarship is April 24, 2025. Applications should be emailed to Darlene Cowart at dcowart@birdsongpeanuts.com by the deadline.

  • Sponsored by: Peanut Proud
  • 2024 Recipient(s): Shihyu Chuang

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Past Awardees

  • 2023 Veeramani Karuppuchamy
  • 2022 Arpita Aditya
  • 2021 Daniel Vega
  • 2020 Hyeon Woo Park
  • 2019 Kaitlyn Casulli
  • 2018 Mengfei Peng
  • 2017 Yagmur Yegin
  • 2016 Soon Kiat Lau