STONY BROOK, N.Y., April 3, 2006—Stony Brook University has been chosen as a site for the Beckman Scholars Program, a prestigious undergraduate research award program which provides over $19,000 per student in support to undergraduate researchers. Over the next three-year period, six Beckman Scholars—eligible sophomores or juniors— from Stony Brook will be funded and supported for undergraduate research for two summers and one academic year.
Stony Brook’s 2006 proposal featured 10 faculty who work in the Departments of Biochemistry & Cell Biology (Professors Robert Haltiwanger, Hermann Schindelin and Steve Smith); Chemistry (Professors Nancy Goroff, Iwao Ojima, Daniel Raleigh, Carlos Simmerling and Peter Tonge); and Pharmacology (Professors Daniel Bogenhagen and Caroline Kisker).
This is the second time that Stony Brook has received the Beckman Scholars Program institutional award (the University was also a recipient of the Beckman Scholars award in 1999).
Established in 1997, The Beckman Scholars Program is an invited program for accredited universities and four-year colleges in the United States. It provides scholarships that contribute significantly in advancing the education, research training and personal development of select students in chemistry, biochemistry, and the biological and medical sciences. The sustained, in-depth undergraduate research experiences and comprehensive faculty mentoring are unique in terms of program scope, content and level of scholarship awards ($19,300 for two summers and one academic year).
