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Howard J. Brinkley Travel Award
Purpose: support graduate student travel.
Eligibility: Student must provide evidence that they will be presenting work at a national or international meeting. Graduate students can be in any graduate program but the student's primary advisor must have their primary appointment in Dept. of Biology.
To Apply: A letter of application from the student and the student's CV submitted to the Director of Graduate Studies.
Awards: Recipient can request up to $250.
Deadline: April 1.
Jane Prichard Teaching Award
Purpose: teaching award to graduate student in a 100 or 200 level BSCI course.
Eligibility: graduate students can be in any graduate program but the student must have taught in an introductory level biology course.
To Apply: A letter of nomination from the faculty member overseeing the graduate student's teaching duties submitted to the Director of the Biological Sciences Program.
Awards: Winners will have their names permanently inscribed in the awards plaques displayed prominently in the Department. Recipient of the award will receive $500.
Deadline: April 1.
Department Teaching Award
Purpose: recognize the best teaching assistant in the department each year.
Eligibility: graduate students can be in any graduate program but the student's primary advisor must have their primary appointment in Dept. of Biology.
To Apply: A letter of nomination from the faculty member overseeing the graduate student's teaching duties submitted to the Director of Graduate Studies.
Awards: Winners will have their names permanently inscribed in the awards plaques displayed prominently in the Department. Recipient of the award will receive $500.
Deadline: April 1.
Department Research Award
Purpose: recognize the best graduate student researcher in the department each year.
Eligibility: graduate students can be in any graduate program but the student's primary advisor must have their primary appointment in Dept. of Biology.
To Apply: A letter of nomination from the primary advisor and the student's CV submitted to the Director of Graduate Studies.
Awards: Winners will have their names permanently inscribed in the awards plaques displayed prominently in the Department. Recipient of the award will receive $500.
Deadline: April 1.
Eugenie Clark Scholarship
Purpose: Provide summer support for graduate students doing research with faculty in the Dept. of Biology.
Eligibility:
- academic interest in a research career in the biological sciences (preferably organismic biology and/or marine biology).
- The applicant must be a student whose primary advisor is a faculty member with their primary appointment in Biology.
- The applicant must have no other source of summer support.
- The applicant will spend full time doing research in the upcoming summer.
- The advisor must provide an equal match.
- The student must be in good standing after the spring review.
To Apply:
- A letter from the student explaining the research to be done in the summer.
- A letter of recommendation from the advisor which provides account information for providing matching funds.
- A current CV, which includes a list of awards received and their date.
Deadline: April 1.
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Devra Kleiman Memorial Scholarship
Purpose: support Biology graduate students in CONS and BEES program.
Criteria: financial need/GPA 3.5 or higher; prefer to students working on Smithsonian collaborations, or graduate students with experience in international conservation related research or programming.
To Apply: TBD.
