The Stanislaw Geroch Memorial Stipend
The Geroch Stipend honours the memory of Prof. Dr. Stanislaw Geroch, Professor of Micropaleontology at the Jagiellonian University, who sadly passed away in June, 1995. The stipend is earmarked to support student research in the field of Carpathian Micropalaeontology - the favourite topic Prof. Geroch's own research.

Prof. Dr. Stanislaw Geroch, photographed in his office at the Institute of Geological Sciences of the Jagiellonian University, in the summer of 1993.
The stipend is awarded annually, and is available only to students registered for a master's degree at a Polish University.
The amount of the stipend is the zloty equivalent of 100 pounds sterling. The following rules apply for the Geroch stipend:
  1. The"Stypendium im. S. Gerocha", will be awarded for a research topic in any aspect of Micropalaeontology (this excludes palynology), with preference for Carpathian foraminifera.
  2. Applicants must be full-time students in their fourth year, and make an application (in English) on the form provided.
  3. Applicants must have an approved research topic for their M.Sc. thesis.
  4. The funds are to be used for a specified purpose, not to supplement salary. Examples of bona fide expenses are costs associated with field work, photography, laboratory supplies. Receipts for expenses must be kept and submitted with a brief report when the thesis is completed.
  5. The GF's assistance must be acknowledged in a thesis, and one copy of the thesis and any resulting publications must be submitted to the Grzybowski Library.
Applications are available from Mike Kaminski, or can be downloaded from this site. Applications will be reviewed and ranked by a committee consisting Board members of the Grzybowski Foundation.

Application deadline: October 31 of each year.


Previous Stipend Holders:
1996 - Bogumila Klossowska (Poland)
1997 - Jaroslaw Migacz (Poland)
1998 - Natalia Yudina (Ukraine)
1999 - Emanuela Tonti (Italy)
2000 - Oana Cutlac (Romania)
2001 - Claudia Cetean (Romania)
2002 - Theodora Blaj (Romania)
2003 - Agnieszka Ciurej (Poland)
2004 - Lorand Silye (Romania)
2005 - Travel grants to students to attend the Mikro-5 meeting
2008 - Fabrizio Frontalini (University of Urbino, Italy)

If interested, see a PDF version of the application form...get Acrobat Reader


Prof. S. Geroch (left), with Felix Gradstein (centre), and Mike Kaminski (right), during a field excursion in the Carpathian flysch in the spring of 1992. For many years Prof. Geroch led student excursions in the Polish Carpathians and was particularly fond of the area.


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