The purpose of the Beckman Scholars Program is to help
stimulate, encourage, and support research activities by talented, full-time
undergraduate students who are pursuing their studies at accredited four-year
colleges and universities located in the United States of America. These
research activities shall be centered in either chemistry, biochemistry, the
biological and medical sciences, or some interdisciplinary combination of these
subjects. Candidates for the Beckman Scholars Award must be full-time students
throughout the duration of the award.

The research activities performed by Beckman Scholars shall
be conducted under the guidance of a full-time, approved science faculty member
at the college or university receiving an award. Research activities must be
performed part-time (ten hours per week) during one academic year, and
full-time over two summers (ten 40-hour weeks each summer) immediately before
and after the academic year research experience. The continuity of the research
experience is important to the Foundation, and alternatives to this “summer –
academic year – summer” schedule will not be considered.

Students will be named as Beckman Scholars in the spring of
either their freshman, sophomore, or junior year at their college or
university. Once selected to be a Beckman Scholar, a student will retain the
award for 15 consecutive months, if the student continues to excel academically
and continues to perform research work within their mentor’s lab. Beckman
Scholar funds provided to any one student may not exceed two summers and one
academic year. Beckman Scholar’s may use their second summer funds during the
summer following graduation.

Universities/colleges will be eligible for one institutional
Beckman Scholar Award, which must be used over a three-year period. Each
institutional Beckman Scholar Award will fund a total of six Beckman
Scholars (with funding for student stipends, institutional contact funds,
travel funds, and mentor research supplies) extending over two summers and one
academic year. Awardee institutions will name two Scholars in each year
of the three-year institutional award term, for a total of six Scholars.