March 24, 1999
Contact: Tim Stephens (831) 459-2495

UCSC gets Beckman Scholars Award to support undergraduate research

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SANTA CRUZ, CA--The University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a Beckman Scholars Award for 1999-2000 from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. UCSC is one of 16 institutions to receive this award, which provides funding for undergraduate research. The $70,400 award enables the campus to offer four undergraduate research scholarships.

The Beckman Scholars Program recognizes outstanding undergraduate students in chemistry, biochemistry, and biological and medical sciences. The scholarships will support undergraduate research activities to be performed part-time during one academic year and full-time during one or two summers.

"The Beckman Scholars award recognizes the outstanding quality of our undergraduate research program in the natural sciences and its faculty mentors," said Thomas Schleich, professor and chair of chemistry and biochemistry.

Students will be named as Beckman Scholars in the spring of their sophomore or junior years. One of the UCSC scholarships is designated for a community college transfer student. UCSC can either award all four scholarships in spring 1999, with research work to begin this summer, or award two scholarships this spring and two in spring 2000.

Each Beckman Scholar will work under the guidance of a faculty mentor. An annual research symposium will be held each summer for Beckman Scholars who have completed their research activities.

"These scholarships will enable distinguished students to engage in significant research at the frontiers of science," Schleich said.

The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, based in Irvine, CA, is an independent non-profit foundation supporting scientific research and education. The Beckman Scholars Program was started in 1997.

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