New Brunswick Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Rutgers College

Program name and description:     The David and Dorothy Bernstein Scholarship for Research. Established by Professor Helen Berman, of the Rutgers University Department of Chemistry, and her brother, Herbert Bernstein, in memory of their parents. This scholarship provides funding for research stipends for undergraduate students in the Rutgers College Honors Program in support of a ten-week full-time summer research experience with a faculty member from the Center for Molecular Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Recipients are known as Bernstein Scholars,and receive a research stipend. Faculty and students within the Center for Molecular Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry focus their research on the concepts of molecular shape and energy. These ideas, once confined to the physical sciences, are now vital to biomedical research and to the prevention and treatment of human disease. The field is a hybrid of scientific endeavor, blending physical and biological research in remarkable and beneficial ways. Faculty within the several labs of the Center conduct research using advanced technology and methods. The Bernstein Scholarship for Research thus provides undergraduate students with a truly exceptional opportunity for study.

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Contact person:     Muffin Lord        Telephone:    (732)932-7025    Ext.: 

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To be eligible to apply, a student must be a member in good standing of the Rutgers College Honors Program. (There are no applicant or recipient restrictions in connection with major, class year, or financial need.) Applicants must submit a completed application form, an unofficial transcript, and a letter of recommendation from a faculty member (preferably someone in a science discipline). Applications are reviewed by a Selection Panel made up of three scientists from the Center and a member of the Rutgers College General Program staff. All finalists are interviewed by the Selection Panel.

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Edited 6/21/96