Beckman Scholars for Undergraduates

The Beckman Scholars program at Rice University provides annually one or more $19,300 scholarships to highly talented, research-oriented students who will work in select mentors' laboratories. Funded by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, the intent of this program is to advance the education, research training and personal development of select students in chemistry, biochemistry, and the biological and medical sciences.

Award

The Beckman Scholars Program at Rice University provides annually one or more $19,300 scholarships to highly talented, research-oriented students who work in select mentors' laboratories for two summers and the intervening academic year. In addition to summer salary and academic year financial support, these scholarships sponsor travel to and participation in national scientific meetings, and promote a professional level of research achievement during the undergraduate years.

Funded by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, the intent of this program is to advance the education, research training and personal development of select students in chemistry, biochemistry, and the biological and medical sciences.

The 2015-2016 Beckman Scholars Program recipients are Kendall Burks (from Bonnie Bartel's lab) and Margaret Lie. Kendall's research title is "Genetic and Chemical Suppressors of the Arabidopsis pex6-1 mutant."

Margaret Margaret Lie
(from Joff Silberg's lab)
2015-2016 Recipient
 Research title "Creating a Near Infrared Fluorescent Reporter for Human Glutaredoxin 2Fe2S Cluster
Coordination"
Steven Steven Martinez
(from James Tour's lab)
2014 Recipient		 Research involves studying the effects of
PEGylated hydrophilic carbon clusters
(PEG-HCCs) in cells
Dante Dante Zakhidov
(from James Tour's lab)
2014 Recipient

Research title "Radically-Activated Tungsten Disulfide Nanoribbon as Novel Electro-catalyst for the Hydrogen Evolution
Reaction"
Kamal Kamal Shah
(from Rebecca Richards-Kortum's lab)
2013 Recipient
 Research title "Characterizing and optimizing alateral flow assay for the quantification of HIVviral load"