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I am tripped up with the correct usage of 'are' or 'is' in the following sentence. Any quick explanations as to why this simple sentence may cause confusion?

Here 'are/is' the list of scholarships and the application.

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    Quick answer: the sentence is not simple. What a native speaker would do is contract Here into Here's (one doesn't find Here're -- nor There're, for the same reason -- as a contraction, because it's hard to pronounce, and contractions should make things easier). Once it's contracted, there's no need to worry about number agreement, and since the number that one might agree with goes from singular list to plural scholarships to conjoined plural and to singular application as the sentence ambles on, nobody's going to complain.
    – John Lawler
    Commented Jul 26, 2017 at 14:50

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When you use and, you're making a plural, compound subject. That means are is the correct usage.

Here are the list of scholarships and the application.

If it were just the list of scholarships, the subject is list, which is singular:

Here is the list of scholarships.

If you want to use is for both, you have to divide it into two, so to speak:

Here is the list of scholarships, and here is the application.

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