FOA-Limited Submission – Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation – 2022 Beckman Scholars Program; LOI March 30, 2021

 

Purpose: The Beckman Foundation has invited the University of Kentucky to submit an application for the 2022 Beckman Scholars Program. The purpose of the Beckman Scholars Program is to help stimulate, encourage and support research activities by exceptionally talented, full-time undergraduate students who are pursuing their studies at accredited four-year colleges and universities located in the United States of America. These research activities shall be centered in either chemistry, biochemistry, the biological and medical sciences or some interdisciplinary combination of these subjects. Candidates for the Beckman Scholars Award must be full-time students throughout the duration of the award.

 

The research activities performed by Beckman Scholars shall be conducted under the guidance of a full-time, approved faculty member at the college or university receiving an award. Research activities must be performed part-time (ten hours per week) during one academic year, and full-time over two summers (ten 40-hour weeks each summer) immediately before and after the academic year research experience.

 

Students will be named as Beckman Scholars in the spring of their freshman through junior years at their university or college. Once selected to be a Beckman Scholar, a student will retain the award for 15 months, as long as he/she continues to excel academically, and his/her research work shows satisfactory progress. Beckman Scholar funds provided to any one student may not exceed two summers and one academic year. Beckman Scholar summer funds may extend through the summer following graduation.

 

Each institutional Beckman Scholar Award will be eligible to fund up to six Beckman Scholars over 3 years (with funding for student and mentor stipends and travel funds and research supplies)

 

Eligibility: Beckman Scholar awards are institutional (university or college) awards.

 

Funding Amount/ Project Period: $26,000 per Scholar/Mentor pair, 4-6 pairs over three years

 

Link to Funding Opportunity Announcement

 

Institutional Limit:  1

 

Internal Competition: To participate in the university’s selection process,please upload the following,assembled into a single PDF file, to the Office of the Vice President for Research via this portal with a copy to your Associate Dean for Research by March 30, 2021:

·        Names and departments or affiliations of the Project Director and other key personnel or partners;

·        Title of program and/or funding opportunity announcement number;

·        Brief project description (2 pages maximum)

·        Brief biographical sketch

 

A committee will be convened to review the material and make a recommendation.

 

For questions or issues with submission through the portal, email the limited submission mailbox (limitedsubmissions@uky.edu), or call 257-2861.

 

Agency Deadline:  June 15, 2021

 

Limited Submission – Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation – 2022 Beckman Scholars Program

 

Purpose: The Beckman Foundation has invited the University of Kentucky to submit an application for the 2022 Beckman Scholars Program. The purpose of the Beckman Scholars Program is to help stimulate, encourage and support research activities by exceptionally talented, full-time undergraduate students who are pursuing their studies at accredited four-year colleges and universities located in the United States of America. These research activities shall be centered in either chemistry, biochemistry, the biological and medical sciences or some interdisciplinary combination of these subjects. Candidates for the Beckman Scholars Award must be full-time students throughout the duration of the award.

 

The research activities performed by Beckman Scholars shall be conducted under the guidance of a full-time, approved faculty member at the college or university receiving an award. Research activities must be performed part-time (ten hours per week) during one academic year, and full-time over two summers (ten 40-hour weeks each summer) immediately before and after the academic year research experience.

 

Students will be named as Beckman Scholars in the spring of their freshman through junior years at their university or college. Once selected to be a Beckman Scholar, a student will retain the award for 15 months, as long as he/she continues to excel academically, and his/her research work shows satisfactory progress. Beckman Scholar funds provided to any one student may not exceed two summers and one academic year. Beckman Scholar summer funds may extend through the summer following graduation.

 

Each institutional Beckman Scholar Award will be eligible to fund up to six Beckman Scholars over 3 years (with funding for student and mentor stipends and travel funds and research supplies)

 

Eligibility: Beckman Scholar awards are institutional (university or college) awards.

 

Funding Amount/ Project Period: $26,000 per Scholar/Mentor pair, 4-6 pairs over three years

 

Link to Funding Opportunity Announcement

 

Institutional Limit:  1

 

Internal Competition: To participate in the university’s selection process,please upload the following,assembled into a single PDF file, to the Office of the Vice President for Research via this portal with a copy to your Associate Dean for Research by March 30, 2021:

·        Names and departments or affiliations of the Project Director and other key personnel or partners;

·        Title of program and/or funding opportunity announcement number;

·        Brief project description (2 pages maximum)

·        Brief biographical sketch

 

A committee will be convened to review the material and make a recommendation.

 

For questions or issues with submission through the portal, email the limited submission mailbox (limitedsubmissions@uky.edu), or call 257-2861.

 

Agency Deadline:  June 15, 2021