BMB Undergraduate Awards Applications

Undergraduate Award Descriptions, Eligibility, and Applications for web-based application

BMB offers six self-nominated awards, and one faculty-nominated award for current undergraduates. Undergraduates are strongly encouraged to apply to all awards they are eligible for. Some eligibility requirements are provided in each of the award descriptions, but see the Award Eligibility Requirement Tables below for a full list of eligibility requirements. Applications for these awards are also provided below.

Undergraduate Award Descriptions - Self-Nominated

Dr. James K. Billman, Jr., Undergraduate Research Award 
Professor Richard L. Anderson Endowed Undergraduate Research Prize 
Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Moore-Billman Scholarship in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Pamela J. Fraker Undergraduate Scholarship
Michael Burdick Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Scholarship

Undergraduate Award Descriptions - Faculty-Nominated

Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award/BMB Undergraduate Award for Excellence

Undergraduate Award Eligibility Requirement Tables

Eligibility requirements for Self-nominated awards.  

IMPORTANT: For the research associated awards, you must be doing research during the following Spring semester. Funds will be applied to your SPRING semester tuition.

Award Name	Major requirement?	Minimum GPA?	Financial Need Requirement	Personal Statement	Research Statement	Letter of Rec.	Status
Fraker	BMB or BMB/Biotech preferred, not mandatory	3.0	Yes	Yes	No	No	Sophomore or above
Billman	BMB or BMB/Biotech	3.0	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Junior or above
Anderson	BMB or BMB/Biotech	3.0	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Junior or above
Ugrad Research Fellowship	BMB or BMB/Biotech preferred, not mandatory	3.0	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Junior or above
Moore-Billman	BMB or BMB/Biotech	3.0	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Sophomore or above
Burdick	BMB or BMB/Biotech	3.0	Yes	Yes	No	No	Sophomore or above

Eligibility requirements for Faculty-nominated awards

Award Name	Major requirement?	Minimum GPA?	Financial Need Requirement	Personal Statement	Research Statement	Letter of Rec.	Status
Outstanding Undergraduate	BMB or BMB/Biotech	None	No	No	No	Yes	Senior only

Undergraduate Award Applications

Notice: The award applications will open the week of October 6th. Email notices will be sent out to current Biochemistry students and faculty when this happens.

BMB Undergraduate Award Application
(For student self nominated awards)

Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award/BMB Undergraduate Award for Excellence Application
(By faculty nomination only!)