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The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation honored Dartmouth's long-standing
commitment to undergraduate scientific research by presenting the College with
a Beckman Scholars Program Award. The award, which provides research
scholarships to five Dartmouth students over a three-year period, is presented
to institutions that foster sustained, in-depth undergraduate research
experiences coupled with comprehensive faculty mentoring. Dartmouth, which last
received the award for the 2001-2003 cycle, was among only 13 colleges and
universities to receive the award for the 2006-2008 cycle.
Disbursement of the award will be overseen by Edward Berger,
professor and chair of the biological sciences, and John Winn, professor
and chair of chemistry. With help
from Margaret Funnell, assistant dean for undergraduate research, Berger and
Winn will select between one and three undergraduates each year in either
chemistry or biology to receive a total of $19,300 to spend one academic year
and two summer terms conducting research in a professional lab. In addition to
the funding, each scholarship recipient will be paired with a faculty mentor in
his or her field. Recipients will also attend the Beckman Scholars Annual
Research Symposium both summers, where they will share their work with other
undergraduate researchers.
Berger notes that the award "reflects both the College's historic and
current commitment to quality undergraduate research programs in biology and
chemistry, and the educational credentials and scholarly accomplishments of its
faculty mentors. The biology and chemistry departments are delighted by news of
this prestigious award."
Between 1999 and 2003, eight Dartmouth students received Beckman
Scholarships and all are currently pursuing graduate work in science. Among
those former recipients are Pam Lombardi '01, currently a fifth-year Ph.D.
candidate in chemistry at Columbia University; Alisa Davis '01, a fifth-year
Ph.D candidate in molecular and computational biophysics at Johns Hopkins
University; and Omar Amir '04, a first-year graduate student in chemistry and
biochemistry at UC San Diego.
Dartmouth was among 122 institutions invited to apply for the grant, which
the Beckman Foundation awards each year to program-related, nonprofit research
institutions. This year's other recipients included Amherst College; California
State University, Long Beach; Carnegie Mellon University; the College of
William and Mary; Duke University; Miami University; New York University;
Oberlin College; Smith College; the State University of New York, Stony Brook;
the University of Richmond; and Washington University, St. Louis.
By GENEVIEVE HAAS
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