Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

E Department of Biochemistry Undergraduate Fellowship 
Gift code: A5020 
Description: This fund provides student recipients support for education while devoting time toward a research project. Students need to carry a 3.0 GPA and be a junior or senior. 

F Dr. Jack Preiss Endowment in Biochemistry 
Gift code: A50201 
Description: This fund supports a graduate fellowship or faculty position in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 

X Mitochondrial Medicine Discretionary Fund 
Gift code: A50202 
Description: The Center for Mitochondrial Science and Medicine seeks to identify key cellular players in the mitochondrial life cycle and leverage this in the design and development of therapeutics for treatment of diseases. 

E Prof. Richard L. Anderson Endowed Undergraduate Research Prize and Dr. James K. Billman, Jr., Undergraduate Research Award(s) 
Gift code: A50205 
Description: This award allows student recipients support for education while devoting time toward a research project. 

F Pamela J. Fraker Undergraduate Scholarship Endowment in Biochemistry 
Gift code: A50206 
Description: Preference will be given to students who have achieved sophomore status, who demonstrate financial need and who have earned a 3.0 GPA. 

X Pamela J. Fraker Undergraduate Scholarship Expendable Fund in Biochemistry 
Gift code: A502060 
Description: Preference will be given to students who have achieved sophomore status, who demonstrate financial need and who have earned a 3.0 GPA. 

F Craig and Joyce Ritchie Endowed Scholarship in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 
Gift code: A502061 
Description: This endowment benefits an incoming freshman to the Department of Biochemistry with a GPA of no less than 3.6 and ACT score of 26. The recipient must be an in-state student who has qualified for financial need as determined by the Federal Government. 

E Jack Throck Watson Graduate Fellowship in Biochemistry Endowment 

Gift code: A502062 
Description: Recipients will be graduate students in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 

E James K. Billman, Jr., M.D. Endowed Professorship 
Gift code: A502063 
Description: Faculty / Endowment. 

E Richard E. Palmer Endowment Fund 
Gift code: A502064 
Description: Expendable amounts will be used to enhance research opportunities for graduate students by providing programmatic funding and research awards to cover travel expenses for presentation of professional papers, essential research supplies and other expenses related to graduate research. 

E J. K. Billman, Jr., M.D. Endowed Research Professorship Fund 
Gift code: A502065 
Description: Recipients will be assistant professors with great potential for promising scientific careers in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Positions will be held for a non-renewable term of five years. 

F Dr. Jean D. Deupree Assistant Professor Research Development Award 
Gift code: A502066 
Description: Recipients of the award must have at least a 60% appointment in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Preference shall be given to promising independent researchers who are working toward their first grants. Expendable Amounts may be used for travel, equipment, lab staffing, academic development or any other research priorities, and will only be available to assistant professors whose start-up package funds have been fully expended. 

E John and Julia Gawarecki Fellowship 
Gift code: A502067 
Description: This fund will provide fellowships to graduate students in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, with preference given to those with financial need. 

E Moore-Billman Scholarship in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 
Gift code: A502068 
Description: Recipients must be Biochemistry and Molecular Biology or Biotechnology majors and have a GPA of 3.0 or higher.  

X Spartan BioInnovation Team Competition 
Gift code: A5020680 
Description: This fund provides support for student teams in national or international scientific competitions. 

E William W. Wells Lectureship in Biochemistry 
Gift code: A5022 
Description: This endowment funds a lectureship for the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 

E N. Edward Tolbert Endowed Lectureship in Plant Biochemistry 
Gift code: A5024 
Description: The endowment funds a lectureship in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 

E Dr. Charles C. Sweeley Lectureship in Biochemistry 
Gift code: A5026 
Description: This fund supports the Sweeley Lectureship each year and consists of a lecture from a prominent scientist in the field of biochemistry. 

E R. Gaurth Hansen Lecture 
Gift code: A5028 
Description: The endowment supports a lectureship for the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.  Lectureship candidates will have received undergraduate research training in the laboratory of a faculty member of the department, graduate research training leading to the Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, or graduate training leading to the Ph.D. in a program. Recipients must be within their first six years of a tenure track appointment at an established academic institution, or in the equivalent early stages of a career in a non-academic setting. 

E Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Legacy Endowment 
Gift code: A5029 
Description: This endowment will be used for Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology purposes at the discretion of its Chairperson. 

X Center for Biological Modeling 
Gift code: A55 
Description: The purpose of the Center is to foster interdisciplinary research between biological, physical and computational sciences in modeling important biological processes. These funds will support any aspect of this research. 

E John A. Boezi Memorial Alumnus Award in Biochemistry 
Gift code: AG0201 
Description: Candidates for the award shall be chosen from among the department's alumni by the Biochemistry Award Selection Committee. Candidates for the award will be based on the criteria of distinguished achievements in the field of Biochemistry.