Beckman Scholars receive $16,000 for research in Biology, Chemistry or Physics & Astronomy with an emphasis on interdisciplinary research for two summers ($6,000/summer) and one academic year ($4,000). In addition, each scholar receives funds to travel to scientific meetings and funds for research supplies (up to $3,300). Beckman Scholars and their mentors agree to submit research progress reports as required by the Beckman Foundation. Students cannot apply to become Beckman Scholars but instead are nominated by their faculty research advisors and selected by a faculty committee.

Beckman Scholars

2008

Katie Diegan (Chemistry)

• Faculty Research Advisor: Kevin Weeks
• Press
  
  • Undergraduate research stars tapped as UNC's first Beckman Scholars
  • UNC senior awarded Churchill Scholarship

Sung Taek Kim (Biology and Biochemistry)

• Faculty Research Advisor: Matt Redinbo
• Press
  
  • Undergraduate research stars tapped as UNC's first Beckman Scholars

2009

Abigail Knight (Chemistry)

• Faculty Research Advisor: Marcey Waters
• Summer Research: Enhancing Small Molecule Binding to RNA with Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry
• Press
  
  • Abby's Beckman Experience

Adele Ricciardi (Chemistry and Biology)

• Faculty Research Advisor: William Marzluff
• Summer Research: Characterization of SLIP-1 Interaction with c-myc
• Press
  
  • Press Release: UNC Senior Accepted to Attend the Nobel Laureate Meetings at Lindau

2010

Surojit Biswas (Biology)

• Faculty Research Advisor: Jeffery Dangl
• Summer Research: Changes in cultivar-specific virulence and avirulence as related to allelic variation in HopF

Adam Hill (Chemistry)

• Faculty Research Advisor: Marcey Waters
• Summer Research: Using Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry to Find and Exclusive Receptor for Nitrotyrosine