Date Effective:May 17, 1982

POLICY AND PROCEDURE MEMORANDUM ADMINISTRATION AND GOVERNANCE - 3

SUBJECT:     Policy Statement on Annual Mary B. Meyer Memorial Award

GENERAL STATEMENT

            Former students, colleagues and friends of the late Mrs. Mary B. Meyer, wishing to establish a lasting memorial to an associate professor who had given so much of herself to the students and to the School, contributed gifts to a memorial fund to endow an annual award bearing Mrs. Meyer's name.

POLICY

            This award has been established to recognize outstanding academic performance of a student in the Department of Epidemiology during the previous year.

PROCEDURE

            The chairman of the Department of Epidemiology appoints a committee consisting of full professors in the Department of Epidemiology together with the Director of Student Affairs in the Department of Epidemiology.

            Preference is being given to continuing rather than graduate students and eligibility is limited to doctoral students who have passed their School oral examinations and are presently doing research and registered as full-time students in the Department of Epidemiology.

            A memorandum is sent out to each member of the faculty asking faculty members to nominate any of their advisees whom they feel is an appropriate candidate for this award.  Selection is based on a combination of grade point average, performance in written and oral comprehensive examinations and assessments by members of the Department of Epidemiology faculty.

            This award shall be given annually at the Convocation of the Bloomberg School of Public Health.