Dr. Bruce Brandhorst Graduate Prizes in MBB
Terms of Reference
- The purpose of this award is to offer financial assistance and reward outstanding graduate students in the following categories:
- Best Oral Presentation at the MBB Graduate Symposium
- Best Poster Presentation at the MBB Graduate Symposium
- Best Publication by a MBB Graduate Student
- Best MBB PhD thesis
- One or more prizes, currently valued at approximately $250 each, will be awarded annually from the income on the endowment fund.
- Students must be nominated for the prizes by the Chair, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry upon a recommendation from ad hoc committees appointed by the MBB Scholarship Committee in consultationi with the MBB Graduate Caucus.
- The presentation, publication and thesis nominated must have ben submitted to a faculty member in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry in one of the three previous terms.
- The completed nomination and all supporting documentation must be sent to the Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies.
- The MBB program will publicize and adjudicate the competitions.
- The prizes will be granted by the Dean of Graduate Studies, on behalf of the Senate Graduate Awards Adjudication Committee, upon the nomination of the Chair of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry.
Revised: March 2013/ GESR150
