Beckman Foundation Announces 2018 Beckman Scholars Program Awardees
- Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Twelve Institutions to Receive $1.5 million in Science Funding for Undergraduate Researchers The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation (http://www.beckman-foundation.org/about/the-arnold-and-mabel-beckman-foundation) announced today the selection of its 2018 class of Beckman Scholars Program Awardees, U.S. colleges and universities which underscore the Foundation’s mission of supporting basic research in the chemistry and life sciences. The institutions were selected after a ri ..
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Beckman Scholar Julia Nelson Publishes: Linked cycles of oxidative decarboxylation of glyoxylate as protometabolic analogs of the citric acid cycle
- Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Learn more about what Beckman Scholar Julia Nelson (Furman University '15) has been working on: ABSTRACT The development of metabolic approaches towards understanding the origins of life, which have focused mainly on the citric acid (TCA) cycle, have languished—primarily due to a lack of experimentally demonstrable and sustainable cycle(s) of reactions. We show here the existence of a protometabolic analog of the TCA involving two linked cycles, which convert glyoxylate into C ..
A Conversation with Dr. Leana Wen: Celebrating 20 Years of Beckman Scholars
- Friday, January 12, 2018
Then: 1998 Beckman Scholars Program Award Recipient, California State University, Los Angeles Now: Health Commissioner for the City of Baltimore AMBF: Prior to college, were you curious about a career in science? LW: I wanted to enter medicine, but did not know about a career in science. AMBF: What exposure did you have to knowing what research in a laboratory would be like? LW: Very little. AMBF: When you heard about the Beckman Scholar opportunity, what ..
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