Thanks to the generous support of the Germaine Mercier Scholarship Fund and the UW-Madison Department of French & Italian,
The French House is please to announce the availabilty of

HOUSING SCHOLARSHIPS

of up to $1500 for 10 UW-Madison undergraduate first-year or incoming (transfer) students annually.

Ms. Mercier played an important role in the Department of French and Italian where she inspired and taught several generations of French undergraduate and graduate students in French language, civilization and literature. Born in Marseille, France, in 1898, Ms. Mercier came to the United States as a French Government exchange student after having studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. She spent two years at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington where she received a Bachelor's Degree in biology. Then, after receiving a Master's degree in French and English from the University of Washington-Seattle, she decided to make her career as a French teacher in America and accepted a position as Lecturer and Director of the newly founded French House of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Germaine Mercier thus taught in the Department of French and Italian for forty-five years (1923-1968) and was given tenure as an Assistant Professor in the nineteen sixties. Upon her death in 1995, she bequeathed monies to the Department of French and Italian to be used for an annual prize (or prizes) for an undergraduate student (or students) for outstanding scholarship in French.

If you are an undergraduate, first-year or incoming (transfer) student, you can submit your application for residence and your scholarship application at any time. However, because space at the French House is offered to qualified residents on a 'first-come first-served' basis, applicants are strongly encouraged to notify the French House as soon as their acceptance to the University of Wisconsin - Madison is awarded.