Here's a brief list of past winners of SOMA scholarships
- 2008
- Katie Harper of UC Davis for her research in forensic sciences. Her thesis set out to design a macroarray to quickly and accurately identify toxic and hallucinogenic mushrooms.
- Nicole Hynson of UC Berkeley for her study into the identification of the mycorrhizal fungi associated with myco-heterotropic plants. A $250 book award will go to the UC Berkeley herbarium or library.
- Katie Petnic, a student at St. Vincents in Petaluma. Award: $50 in the SOMA Store.
- 2007
- Hanna Bauer, K-12 Scholarhip. Turned in a drawing of four species of fungi.
- Jennifer Kerekes, UC Berkeley, Collegiate Scholarhip. Work on three confusing species of Suillus in California.
- 2006
- Denise Gregory. Herbert M. Saylor Memorial Scholarship, for studying Clitocybe in California.
- Tara Fulgenzi, Humboldt State University. Collegiate Scholarship. Taxonomic study of the Boletaceae from the neotropical rainforests of Guyana, in northeastern South America.
- Joseph Sorensen. K-12 scholarship. submitted mushroom drawings and won two $50 K-12 Scholarships. His excellent drawings will be featured on the next SOMA T-Shirt.
- 2005
- April Sahara, Humboldt State University, California. Herbert M. Saylor Memorial Scholarship. Project: Parasites on Russula brevipes.
- 2004
- Scott Bates, Arizona State University. Herbert M. Saylor Memorial Scholarship. Project: Keys and descriptions of puffballs and earthstars of the South Western US.
- 2003
- Lawrence Glacy, Master's student at Sonoma State University, California. Collegiate Scholarship. Project: China's Nature Reserve system and the ecological impact of fungal removal from the Panda (Ailouropus melanoluca) habitat.
- Matthew Keirle, San Francisco State University. Herbert M. Saylor Memorial Scholarship. Project: Monographing the coprinoid fungi of Hawaii.
- Ariel Mahon. K-12 Scholarship. Project: Drawing of Boletus edulis.
- Megan Romberg, Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Davis. Collegiate Scholarship. Project: Large-scale production of dye fungi in fermentation vats and possible commercialization of the dyes by this method.
- 2002
- Matt Smith. Collegiate Scholarship. Project: Armillaria Root Disease (caused by Armillaria mellea) in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
- Josef Sorenson. K-12 Scholarship. Project: Pencil drawings of fungi.
- Peter Werner, University of California, Berkeley. The Herbert M. Saylor Memorial Scholarship. Project: Gene flow in Cantharellus californicus.
- 2001
- Megan Clements. K-12 Scholarship. Project: book of mushroom drawings.
- Anna Erickson. K-12 Honorary Mention.
- Admir Jose Giachini, Oregon State University. Collegiate Scholarship. Project: Systematics, phylogeny and ecology of the genus Gomphus in the Pacific Northwest.
- Ariel Mahon. K-12 Scholarship. Project: T-shirt logo.
- Matthew Smith, University of California at Davis. Collegiate Scholarship. Project: Diversity of mycorrhizae on oaks in an oak/grassland ecosystem.
- 2000
- Anna Erickson. K-12 Scholarship. Project: Fired ceramic tile.