Marion B. Sewer Distinguished Scholarship for Undergraduates 2022 is inviting credible applicants who are willing to partake in its ongoing 2022 Scholarship programme at the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2022
The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) was founded on December 26, 1906, as a learned society organized by John Jacob Abel (Johns Hopkins University).
The roots of the society were in the American Physiological Society, which had been formed some 20 years earlier.
Requirements for American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Masters Scholarship Qualification
- Be a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, or permanent resident at the time of application. Students with DACA status also are eligible. Foreign nationals in the U.S. on a visa are not eligible.
- Be enrolled or accepted for enrollment as a full-time student at an accredited two- or four-year institution located in the U.S. or U.S. territories.
- Be an ASBMB member at the time of application. Undergraduates can join the ASBMB either directly or by joining an ASBMB Student Chapter at a participating institution.
- Recipients are eligible to apply for a further scholarship in subsequent academic years.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified? Go to the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology on www.asbmb.org to apply
Each applicant should submit the following documents in PDF format. Under each required statement, there are guidelines that the reviewers will use to provide an overall score for that particular document.
- Academic transcript
Evaluation (1 point) - Statement of research experience and career goals (two pages max).
Evaluation (7 points)- What evidence do you provide of research experience?
- How will the scholarship help you achieve your career goals and plans?
- How did you decide upon your career goal?
- A statement describing the need as determined by the educational, social, cultural, or economic barriers (two pages max).
Evaluation (8 points)- What relevant life experiences have contributed to barriers in your education?
- What insights, perspectives or skills have you gained from these formative experiences that shape your education and career goals?
- Do you present a case for need in a logical, interesting, or otherwise appropriate way?
- Statement demonstrating the applicant’s commitment to diversity (two pages max).
Evaluation (9 points)- How is your commitment to diversity reflected through volunteer engagement in diversity initiatives, or other opportunities to enhance diversity?
- Have you undertaken increased responsibilities that demonstrate commitment to diversity?
- What is your sense of purpose too, or your personal motivation for, your commitment to diversity?
- Have you conveyed genuine intentions for enhancing diversity?
- In what ways have you or will you enhance diversity? What was or will be your impact?
- What evidence do you provide of research experience?