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Joe M. Bohlen Memorial Scholarship
2012 Award Amount: $500 Requirements: For more information about this award, contact Anastasia Prokos(aprokos@iastate.edu).
Professor Joe Bohlen was born in Dubuque, Iowa in 1919. He received all of his degrees from ISU, a B.S. in 1947 in farm management, an M.S. in 1948 in sociology and a Ph.D. in 1954 in sociology. He was a faculty member in the department from 1947-1988—one of a core of faculty that set the course of the department. He retired in 1988 and passed away in 1989. His areas of scholarship were broad—adoption/diffusion and communication of innovations, organizational effectiveness, social change, rural and community development, methodology and comparative studies. The author of 230 journal articles, book chapters, books, research monographs, and papers for professional meetings, he was in demand as a presenter. He gave over 700 invited lectures on adoption/diffusion of technology and social power during his career. Professor Bohlen was leader or co-leader of 17 research projects in the U.S.A. and Europe on adoption and diffusion of technology. He obtained over $3 million in external grants/contracts over a twenty-year period. From 1964-1981 he was a research consultant to the Agriculture Institute, Republic of Ireland, Dublin. He established a research program there in the sociology of adoption/diffusion and management success through a cooperative agreement between the ISU Agriculture Experiment Station and the Agricultural Institute in Dublin and served as major professor for two of the three rural sociologists who became staff members there. Joe M. Bohlen Memorial Scholarship, established by Mrs. Bohlen and additionally funded by contributions from Joe’s many friends, past students and colleagues, is to recognize an outstanding graduate student in rural sociology.
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