Awards

BMCB Grad Student Angela Amoia and BCP Grad Student Branwen Hall have received ARCS Foundation Scholarships for 2004-2005. ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) Foundation, Inc. is a national volunteer women's organization dedicated to helping the best and brightest U. S. graduate and undergraduate students by providing scholarships in natural sciences, medicine and engineering.

Eric Bultman was awarded the Beckman Scholarship in February of this year. He is using it to work with John Enemark in the Department of Chemistry, doing electron paramagnetic resonance-based studies of sulfite oxidizing enzymes.

Established in 1997, The Beckman Scholars Program is an invited program for accredited universities and four-year colleges in the United States. It provides scholarships that contribute significantly in advancing the education, research training and personal development of select students in chemistry, biochemistry, and the biological and medical sciences.

Heather Handl, doctoral student in BMCB, is a recipient of the Philanthropic Educational Organization Scholar Award. Chosen from among 6,000 applicants, she is one of 85 to receive the award this year, which provides $8,000 each to American and Canadian women who are engaged in advanced study and research.

Gordon Tollin, Regents Professor (Emeritus) of Biochemistry, and Chemistry, will be honored by the faculty of Science and Technology of Umea University (Sweden), which will confer upon him the title of Doctor Honoris Causa. Professor Tollin will deliver a lecture at the inaugural ceremony, which will take place at the University on October 30, 2004.