TAPPI Foundation Awards 2024-2025 Scholarships

Published: October 08, 2024

Nominations for 2025-2026 awards now being accepted

TAPPI, the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, tissue and converting industries, recently announced 19 scholarship recipients for the 2024-2025 academic year.

Elisha Ewing, a senior studying chemical engineering and paper engineering at Western Michigan University is the recipient of the William L. Cullison Scholarship.

TAPPI Foundation’s $4,000 William L. Cullison Scholarship is named in honor of TAPPI’s fifth Executive Director and is awarded each year to a third- or fourth-year student working toward a career in pulp and paper, corrugated container, or flexible packaging.

“The TAPPI Foundation scholarship program supports the development of our industry’s future leaders,” said Larry N. Montague, TAPPI President and CEO, “as well as plays a key role in driving important events like the annual Student Summit which takes place every Martin Luther King weekend and facilitating TAPPI’s more than 30 Student Chapters. Our scholarship program is one of the most important parts of TAPPI’s mission.”

Technical Division scholarship winners include:

• Angel Boyette, chemical engineering and paper science and engineering, North Carolina State University, Corrugator Supplier Committee Scholarship
• Sophia Craig, chemical engineering and paper Science and engineering, University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point, Joe Dieffenbacher Engineering Memorial Scholarship
• Elisha Ewing, in addition to receiving the William L. Cullison Scholarship, she also received the Process Control Division Scholarship
• Katelyn Gyurich, chemical engineering and paper engineering, Western Michigan University, the International Flexible Packaging Division’s Daniel Siegel Memorial Scholarship and the Coating, Printing and Surface Enhancement Division’s Robert W. Hagemeyer Scholarship
• Alana Hattenstein, Chemical Engineering, Auburn University, Paper and Board Division Scholarship
• Meegan Heerlyn, paper and chemical engineering, Western Michigan University, Coating, Printing and Surface Enhancement Division’s Robert W. Hagemeyer Scholarship and the Corrugated Packaging Division’s Bobst Scholarship
• Dan Hursh, chemical engineering, Miami University, Process Control Division Scholarship
• Nathan Johnson, paper science and chemical engineering, North Carolina State University, Process Control Division Scholarship
• Troy Knudson, paper science and chemical engineering, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Nonwovens Division’s Ron Franklin Fiberglass Mat Memorial Scholarship
• Jack Kosloski, packaging science, Michigan State University, International Flexible Packaging Division’s Scholarship
• Jacob Levesque, chemical engineering, University of Maine, Corrugated Division’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Scholarship
• Dominique Mauhar, chemical engineering and paper science and engineering, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Paper and Board Division Scholarship
• Abigail “Abbi” Brooke Mendius, graphic design and production, Dunwoody College of Technology, Corrugated Packaging Division Scholarship
• Emma Perrin, paper and chemical engineering, Western Michigan University, Process and Product Quality Scholarship
• Ashley Randall, paper and chemical engineering, Western Michigan University, Paper and Board Division Scholarship
• Kate Ross, chemical engineering, Miami University, Process Control Division Scholarship
• Yuvraj (Yuvi) Shah, packaging science, Michigan State University, Corrugated Packaging Division’s Joe Dieffenbacher Engineering Memorial Scholarship
• Nayab Tuifail, paper engineering, Western Michigan University, Corrugated Packaging Division’s John O. Telesca Engineering Scholarship
• Caroline Youngblood, paper science and engineering, chemical engineering, North Carolina State University, Process and Product Quality Scholarship

TAPPI is currently accepting scholarship applications for the 2025-2026 academic year. Applications are due February 15, 2025. For application details and to view the gallery of 2024-2025 scholarship recipients visit tappi.org/scholarships.

For more information about the TAPPI Foundation and the scholarship program, contact Mary Beth Cornell, Membership and Global Development Director, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..