The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation supports scientific education and research through a variety of programs including the Beckman Scholars Program, designed to stimulate, encourage and support research activities by exceptionally talented undergraduates.

The Beckman Scholars Program provides research expense and stipend support for one academic year and two summers for selected undergraduates in the biological and biomedical sciences and chemistry (participating departments and programs: Biology, MB&B, Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering).

Beckman Scholar Matthew Torres '01 with Dr. Arnold Beckman at the 2000 Annual Beckman Scholars Symposium in Irvine, California.

Awards are normally made to sophomores to support research during a period extending from the summer following the sophomore year through the summer following the junior year. In exceptional cases, an award may be made to a junior who commits to a research program extending from the summer following the junior year through the summer following the senior year.

Yale College's 1999-2000 Beckman Scholars

Gautam Bahl '01, Biomedical Engineering

Whitney Bowe '01, Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology

Barry Fine '00, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Matthew Torres '01, Chemistry

Yale College's 2001-2002 Beckman Scholar

Margaret Ebert '03, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Yale College's 2002-2003 Beckman Scholars

Peter Anthony '04, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Natasha Keith '04, Chemistry

Srinivas Viswanathan '04, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Yale College's 2003-2004 Beckman Scholars

Anoop Patel '05, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Courtney Stritar '05, Chemistry

Yale College's 2004-2005 Beckman Scholars

Chewie Lin '06, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Eleanor Marshall '06, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Yale College's 2005-2006 Beckman Scholars

Daniel Rosenfeld '07, Chemistry

Rebecca Voorhees '07, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Yale College's 2006-2007 Beckman Scholars

Bennett Lane '08, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Aaron Ring '08, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Yale College's 2007-2008 Beckman Scholars

Sun Jin Lee '09, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Stephany Tzeng '09, Biomedical Engineering

Yale College's 2008-2009 Beckman Scholars

Blair Benham-Pyle '10, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Michael Vishnevetsky '10, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

 

Whitney Bowe '01 presents her research at the 2000 Annual Beckman Scholars Symposium in Irvine, California

 

Yale College has applied to the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation's 2010 institutional award competition, and hopes to be able to accept applications for the 2010-2011 program in March 2010.

There is no satisfactory substitute for excellence.

Arnold Beckman