Howard W. Odum Memorial Fund

This fund was established in the name of Howard W. Odum, founder and head of the Department of Sociology from 1920-1954.  The fund is used to provide awards annually to the most outstanding graduate student and most outstanding undergraduate student in the Department of Sociology and to support departmental scholarly and instructional activities that enhance Dr. Odum’s mission of building and maintaining the most distinguished Department of Sociology in the South.