Scholarship Awarding Information

TScholarship Universe is the online scholarship application for clubs who maintain their scholarship funds at Purdue and select their own recipients. Deadlines and how you review applications remain unchanged. To help you promote your scholarships, please share the Student Guide to Scholarships website with students you know from your area to encourage them to apply.

Important Dates

January 15	Admission decisions are released for early action applicants
Early February	Purdue for Life sends an email to incoming and current Purdue students from the clubs’ areas, encouraging them to submit their information through Scholarship Universe
March 1	Application deadline for students. Deadline for clubs to submit scholarship committee members names and email addresses. Once names are received, the Division of Financial Aid Confidentiality Form will be sent via DocuSign to each person
March 15	Deadline for scholarship committee members to submit the DFA Confidentiality form via DocuSign
April 15	Deadline to submit ranking sheet to alumniclubs@purdueforlife.org.

Division of Financial Aid Confidentiality Form

The Division of Financial Aid requires a list of all scholarship reviewers to have the DFA Confidentiality Form on file with them. This is a DFA legal data security policy and ensures that DFA and scholarship reviewers are compliant with federal, state, and University policies. It emphasizes the importance of protecting the data since it could include FAFSA data, which is highly sensitive. We will send the form to each reviewer via DocuSign.

To ensure all club members who will be reviewing scholarships will receive the Confidentiality Form, please submit scholarship committee members’ name and email address via this form.

How to Promote your Scholarship

Provide the link to Scholarship Universe or your club’s scholarship application on your club webpage
Share information on your social media platforms
Promote at local high schools

Patsy J. Mellott

BS College of Health and Human Sciences, 1969

Fishers, IN

Patsy earned a bachelor’s degree in food and nutrition in business from Purdue in 1969, in addition to an MBA in food marketing from Michigan State University in 1970. She retired from Kraft Foods in 2006 after 36 years in corporate food marketing and marketing communications management.

A community volunteer, Patsy serves on the Women’s Fund of Central Indiana Advisory Board and the Purdue College of Health and Human Sciences Dean’s Leadership Council, in addition to the President’s Council Advisory Board. She is a former member of the Health and Human Sciences Alumni Board. Patsy held several offices from 2006 through 2013, including president and treasurer. She serves her community’s Discover Indianapolis Club in Fishers, holding several leadership roles for over 10 years.

Patsy has received several honors, including the Purdue University Nutrition Science Department Hall of Fame recipient in 2009 and the Purdue University College of Health and Human Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award in 2016. She also received the college’s Gold and Black Award in 2016, an honor reserved for donors who have moved the college forward by committing exceptional financial resources.

In addition to endowing two scholarships, the Patsy J. Mellott Scholarship and Patsy J. Mellott HHS Scholarship, she established the Patsy J. Mellott Teaching Innovation Award in the College of Health and Human Sciences in 2013. In 2015, she endowed the Patsy J. Mellott Women’s Tennis Coach Performance Award. She is a lead donor in the Christine M. Ladisch Faculty Leadership Award and the Purdue Women’s Network Virginia C. Meredith Scholarship for the College of Health and Human Sciences.