Date Effective:September 13, 1982

POLICY AND PROCEDURE MEMORANDUM ADMINISTRATION AND GOVERNANCE - 5

SUBJECT:     Frederik B. Bang Award for Student Research

POLICY

            This annual award has been established to recognize students from any department in the Bloomberg School of Public Health who have passed their preliminary oral examinations and are engaged in doctoral research in a topic relevant to pathobiology.

PROCEDURE

            The acceptable range of such topics shall be broad.  The awardee(s) should be conducting research either at the Bloomberg School of Public Health or at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

            Each awardee shall present a seminar in the department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology on the results of the research supported by the Frederik B. Bang Research Fund.

            The selection committee for the Award will consist of four faculty members of the rank of assistant professor or above in the Bloomberg School of Public Health appointed by the chair of the department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology.  Selection will be based on the scientific merits of proposals.

            The selection shall be made each spring in time for the name(s) of the awardee(s) to be announced at the Bloomberg School of Public Health Convocation ceremonies.

            The income derived from the Frederik B. Bang Research Fund will be used to support the student research.