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Fellowships and Grants

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By Mitchell Byler, Assistant Dean

The College of Arts and Sciences invites you to nominate a graduate student for the McCormick Science Grant. The McCormick Science Grant Fund was established by Dr. Charles O. McCormick III to support basic science research and to honor Dr. McCormick’s grandfather and father.

The donor has asked the College to award annually two grants of $2,500 each to the graduate student member of a faculty/graduate student team whose research, either in progress or proposed, is judged to be most creative, visionary, and innovative. The disciplines of astronomy, biology, biochemistry, botany, chemistry, geological sciences, microbiology, physics, and zoology will be eligible to submit one nominee each per year. Please bring this award to the attention of graduate students in your program.

Each nomination should include two statements. For the first statement, please ask the student nominee to submit a one-page description of the research. The second statement (one to two pages) should be written by the faculty mentor. This statement should explain how the work is particularly innovative and whether it is likely to have a significant impact on the discipline. Because one of the goals of this program is to encourage a close mentoring relationship between an outstanding faculty member and a graduate student, a very brief description of the nature of this relationship should be included.

Completed nominations should be forwarded to Assistant Dean Mitchell Byler in Kirkwood Hall 014 by Wednesday, March 1, 2006.


Mitchell Byler, Assistant Dean
College of Arts and Sciences, Graduate Division
Kirkwood Hall 014
855-4871

If you have questions concerning the fellowships or the competition, please contact Assistant Dean Mitchell Byler in Kirkwood Hall 014 (855-4871 or mbyler@indiana.edu)