The School of Life Sciences makes many scholarships, fellowships, and other awards available to both undergraduate and graduate students. In general, applications for most undergraduate awards are due during the spring semester and can be made through the STAR scholarship system. For details on graduate award applications and due dates, please see the research award pages for the Botany and Zoology programs, respectively.
| Opportunity | Level | Major/Program | Other areas of emphasis |
| Agnes Kwon Fok Scholarship | Undergraduate | Biology, Marine Biology | |
| Alan Conrad Banner Endowment for Students from Oceania | Undergraduate or Graduate | Biology | Students from Oceania |
| Beatrice Krauss Fellowship Fund in Botany | Graduate | Botany | Ethnobotany |
| Biology Scholarship | Undergraduate | Biology | |
| Charles H. and Margaret B. Edmondson Research Fund | Graduate | Zoology, Marine Biology | Marine invertebrates of Hawaiʻi |
| Charles H. Lamoureux Fellowship in Plant Conservation Fund | Graduate | Botany | Conservation of native Hawaiian plants |
| Clifford Smith Endowed Fellowship | Graduate | Botany | Lichen biology and evolution |
| Dr. Charles and Sandra Guest-Van Riper Endowed Student Travel Award | Graduate | Zoology | Travel |
| E. Alison Kay Endowed Award | Undergraduate or Graduate | Zoology | Natural history |
| Ellen M. Koenig ARCS Award in Zoology | Graduate | Zoology | |
| Ethel Ululani O’Neil Zoology | Graduate | Zoology | |
| Garrett Lynch Memorial Scholarship | Undergraduate or Graduate | Zoology, Marine Biology | Preference for stomatopod research |
| George and Mona Elmore ARCS Award | Graduate | Botany | |
| Harold and Elizabeth St. John Scholarship | Undergraduate or Graduate | Botany | Systematic botany |
| Hau’oli Mau Loa Fellows | Graduate | Botany | Graduates of local high schools |
| Isabella Aiona Abbott Endowed Fund for Excellence | Undergraduate | Botany | Hawaiian Botany & Hawaiian plants, including algae |
| Jacqueline Maly ARCS Award in Microbiology | Graduate | Microbiology | |
| Jessie D. Kay Memorial Research Grant | Graduate | Zoology | Natural history of Hawaiʻi; Marine Malacology |
| Lani Stemmerman Award | Graduate | Botany | |
| Michael G. Hadfield Endowed Scholarship for Pacific Islands Students | Undergraduate | all life science majors | Students from Pacific Islands |
| Sidney Townsley Scholarship Fund in Natural Sciences | Undergraduate | all life science majors | |
| Torrey-Degener-Rock Scholarship Endowed Fund | Undergraduate or Graduate | Botany | Outstanding scholastic achievement |
| Winona Pi’ilani Char Scholarship | Undergraduate or Graduate | Botany | Native Hawaiian Ancestry; Conservation Biology, Ecology, and Systematics |