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Center for Plant Cell Biology (CEPCEB) Award Fund:

 

The CEPCEB Award Fund was established in 2002 to provide critical scholarship support to promising young scientists. These awards annually recognize research excellence in plant cell biology, genomics, bioinformatics and bioengineering by pre-college students, undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers. The Award Fund also sponsors an annual special seminar and awards ceremony where an invited prominent scientist presents his or her work.

Please see the CEPCEB Award Fund Chart for a list of all award recipients and special lecturers to date.

The following annual scolarship/lecturer awards have been established by CEPCEB with this fund:

• The Neil Campbell CEPCEB Undergraduate Student Award for Outstanding Research ($500)
• The CEPCEB Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Research ($500)
• The CEPCEB Postdoctoral Award for Outstanding Research ($500)
• The CEPCEB Inland Region Science Fair Award [High School] ($100)
• The CEPCEB California State Science Fair Award [High School] ($1,000)
• Honorarium for Noel Keen Special Lecturer ($500)

 

TO MAKE A DONATION TO THIS FUND:

• Credit card donations can be made at UCR's secure Online Gift Form.  There is also a space to further designate your donation to a specific purpose related to the Center's activities.

• Check or money orders can also be issued to the Center for Plant Cell Biology. Make a check to "UC Regents" and mail it to:
  • Nick Rainsberry
    Institute for Integrative Genome Biology
    Keen Hall, Room 2020
    University of California, Riverside
    Riverside, CA 92521
• Accompany the check with a very brief letter stating that the contribution is for the CEPCEB Award Fund and that it is an “unrestricted gift.” You will receive acknowledgement expressing the Center's gratitude and a receipt of your contribution for tax purposes.

 

TO NOMINATE INDIVIDUALS FOR CEPCEB AWARDS:

This year, nominations for annual recipients of CEPCEB awards above are due July 30th, as the award ceremony is scheduled on October 16, 2009. Five copies of the nomination letter and manuscript (see below) should be submitted to Harley Smith in Botany & Plant Sciences.The CEPCEB Awards have a monetary value of $500 each, and awardees' names will be posted on the website and added to a permanent plaque inscribed with the names of the CEPCEB lecturer and awardees each year. 

CEPCEB Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Awards for Outstanding Research are designed to recognize a UCR postdoctoral fellow and graduate student with a CEPCEB mentor who have achieved research excellence, as demonstrated by publication of a high impact paper in the past two years (2007-08). Faculty members are asked to nominate a qualified graduate student and or postdoctoral fellow for the 2009 awards. If you have multiple candidates for this award from your lab, it is fine to submit multiple nominations. Papers that are in press are also acceptable as long as a letter of acceptance is included with the manuscript. Because of the breadth of CEPCEB research interests, the letters of nomination should address: (1) the importance of these scientific findings to the field, (2) the specific role of the student/postdocs in the research (this is particularly important in multi-author papers), (3) prominence of the journal/proceedings that the work is published in, and (4) any other information that might guide the award committee's decision making process. 

The Neil Campbell CEPCEB Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award (started in 2005) honors a UCR undergraduate who has been mentored by a CEPCEB faculty member in the past two years (2007-08), however the criteria for this award are not as stringent as for the Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Awards. Creativity, diligence, focus, enthusiasm and tangible research accomplishments are primary considerations for this award. Because of the breadth of CEPCEB research interests, the CEPCEB mentor's letter of nomination for this award should address: (1) the importance of these scientific findings to the field, (2) the specific role of the undergraduate in the research project (this is particularly important since most undergrads are mentored by a graduate student, postdoc or staff member), (3) independence of the student, and (4) any other information that might guide our decision making process. If the student has been an author on a manuscript, the manuscript should be submitted, however, authorship on a manuscript is not mandatory for this award.

If you have any questions, please contact Harley Smith, CEPCEB Awards Fund Chair, at harleys@ucr.edu or x2-2643.