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TWRI Mills Endowment Program

The 2024-2025 Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) Mills Endowment Program request for proposals for graduate student research is now closed. For updates on when the next Mills Scholars Program request for proposals will be released, please subscribe to TWRI News. 

The TWRI Mills Endowment Program is open to graduate students at Texas A&M University, Texas A&M at Galveston and Texas A&M at Qatar. This program is funded through the W.G. Mills Memorial Endowment.

TWRI anticipates funding 4 graduate research projects of up to $7,500 each in the area of water resources to help Texas address current and future water issues. We expect the funds will become available no sooner than September 1, with the period of performance ending August 31.

Key requirements of the Mills Scholarship are:

  • Awards are $7,500 max for one-year.
  • Allowable costs:
    • Scholarship (tuition and fees).
    • New this year: other categorical costs are also allowed – salary, fringe, travel, supplies and other direct costs.
  • Equipment (>$5,000) and indirect costs are prohibited.
  • Students selected who request scholarship/tuition funds will be eligible to waive out-of-state tuition, if needed.
  • Matching funds are not required.
  • Submissions must follow the application form instructions including the basic information and project description sections (items 1-19) as well as the other required information (items 20-23) completed as described in the RFP.
  • Students selected for this opportunity will be contacted for additional information and/or materials, as needed.

Mills Endowment Program History

In 1967, Mills Cox of Gay Hill, Texas, who was chairman of the Texas Water Development Board, established this permanently endowed fund at Texas A&M University. Cox designated this fund as The W.G. Mills Memorial Endowment Fund in memory of his great-grandfather. Mills was from Millican and helped prepare the site for Gathright Hall, the original student dormitory and dining hall on the Texas A&M campus, constructed in 1875-1876.

Since 2001, we have awarded more than $560,200 in Mills scholarships to support 220 students involved in water-related studies.