A Beckman Fellow receives funding, usually via an intermediary institution, from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation,
founded by
Arnold Orville Beckman
Arnold Orville Beckman (April 10, 1900 – May 18, 2004) was an American chemist, inventor, investor, and philanthropist. While a professor at California Institute of Technology, he founded Beckman Instruments based on his 1934 invention of th ...
and his wife Mabel. The Foundation supports programs at several institutions to encourage research, particularly the work of young researchers who might not be eligible for other sources of funding.
People from a variety of different programs at different institutions may therefore be referred to as Beckman Fellows. Though most often designating postdoctoral awards in science, the exact significance of the term will vary depending on the institution involved and the type(s) of Beckman Fellowship awarded at that institution.
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowships
The
Arnold O. Beckman
Arnold Orville Beckman (April 10, 1900 – May 18, 2004) was an American chemist, inventor, investor, and philanthropist. While a professor at California Institute of Technology, he founded Beckman Instruments based on his 1934 invention of th ...
Postdoctoral Fellowship program was sponsored by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation to support research at US institutions in the biological and chemical sciences. A total of sixty Fellowships were awarded from 2015 – 2017.
After an evaluation in 2018, the Foundation then relaunched the program for 2019 as the
Arnold O. Beckman
Arnold Orville Beckman (April 10, 1900 – May 18, 2004) was an American chemist, inventor, investor, and philanthropist. While a professor at California Institute of Technology, he founded Beckman Instruments based on his 1934 invention of th ...
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences or Chemical Instrumentation.
The purpose of the program is to support advanced research by postdoctoral scholars in fundamental chemistry research or the development of chemical instrumentation.
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
The
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is a unit of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign dedicated to interdisciplinary research. A gift from scientist, businessman, and philanthropist Arnold O. Beckman (1900–2004) an ...
at the
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Universit ...
offers a variety of fellowship programs.
Beckman Graduate Fellowships
Beckman Graduate Fellowships are awarded to students at the University of Illinois who are working at the master's or doctorate level.
Students propose interdisciplinary research projects involving at least two University of Illinois faculty members, at least one of whom is associated with the Beckman Institute. The award provides funding at the level of a 50% Graduate Research Assistantship for eleven months.
* 2023 Beckman Institute Graduate Fellows
Siti Fauziyah
Alexander Fliflet
Michael Pence
Chelsea Swartchick
Gang Xiao
Shensheng Zhao
* 2022 Beckman Institute Graduate Fellows
Sohaila Aboutaleb
Megan Finnegan
Zhengchang Kou
Jialu Li
Defne Gorgun Ozgulbas
Yunyan Sun
Zepeng Wang
* 2021 Beckman Institute Graduate Fellows
Evan Anderson
Elizabeth Bello
Bashar Emon
Rong "Ronny" Guo
Nil Parikh
Amanda Weiss
Yuxuan "Richard" Xie
Beckman Postdoctoral Fellows
Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowships are awarded to recent Ph.D.'s who receive 3-year appointments at the Beckman Institute, including both a stipend and a research budget. They must be doing interdisciplinary research in an area of research relevant to the Beckman Institute. The first Beckman postdoctoral fellows were Efrat Shimshoni (condensed matter physics) and Andrew Nobel (information theory and statistics) in 1992.[
Since the founding of the original Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows Program, two similar programs have been initiated: the Carle Foundation Hospital-Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows Program (begun in 2008 and jointly funded by the ]Carle Foundation Hospital
Carle Foundation Hospital is a 433-bed regional care hospital in Urbana, Illinois, United States, that has achieved Magnet Recognition Program, Magnet designation. It is owned by the not-for-profit (NFPO) Carle Foundation, which also consists of ...
of Urbana, Illinois
Urbana ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Champaign County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, Urbana had a population of 38,336. As of the 2010 United States Census, Urbana is the List of municipalities in Illinois, 38th-most pop ...
) and the Beckman-Brown Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship (begun in 2015 by an endowment from the Arnold O. and Mabel M. Beckman Foundation made in honor of Theodore L. Brown, founding director of the Beckman Institute).
The following researchers are or have been Beckman Postdoctoral Fellows. The institution listed is the one from which the person had received a Ph.D. Fellowships were awarded as of the year listed.
Beckman Senior Fellows
Beckman Senior Fellowships are awarded to senior faculty from other institutions, who come to the University of Illinois to collaborate with researchers there, usually for a short period of three to six months.
Beckman Senior Fellows include:[
* Luisa Ciobanu (NeuroSpin, ]France
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, 2020)
* Nelson Cowan (University of Missouri
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, 2017)
* Frini Karayanidis (University of Newcastle, Australia
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, 2016)
* Christophe Chipot (CNRS
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In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...
, France
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, 2015)
* Daniel A. King (Eastern Mennonite University
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, 2014)
* Kirk Erickson (University of Pittsburgh
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, 2013–2014)
* Lisa Frank (University of Wisconsin at Madison
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, 2012–2013)
* Jong Chul Ye (KAIST
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, 2012–2013)
* Nadja Schott (Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Germany, 2007)
* Dimitris C. Lagoudas (Texas Institute for Intelligent Bio-Nano Materials and Structures for Aerospace Vehicles, 2006)
* Gerald Penn (University of Toronto
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, 2006)
* Kevin Warwick
Kevin Warwick (born 9 February 1954) is an English engineer and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Coventry University. He is known for his studies on direct interfaces between computer systems and the human nervous system, and has also done ...
(University of Reading
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, UK 2004)
* Jan Theeuews (Vrije Universiteit
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, Amsterdam
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, 2002)
Center for Advanced Study (CAS)
In addition to the Beckman Fellowships administered through the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is a unit of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign dedicated to interdisciplinary research. A gift from scientist, businessman, and philanthropist Arnold O. Beckman (1900–2004) an ...
, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation supports additional programs through the Center for Advanced Study (CAS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...
. The CAS awards a series of Beckman Fellowships and Beckman Research Awards which support faculty at Urbana-Champaign in their research activities. These awards were funded through an endowment from Arnold and Mabel Beckman, given in the late 1970s, prior to the establishment of the Beckman Institute. They are administered separately and are awarded in departments throughout the university, not just within the sciences.
The Center for Advanced Study (CAS) has awarded Beckman Fellowships to the following University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...
faculty members, with their home department and Fellowship award year shown.
Stanford University
Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine
The Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine
The Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine is an interdisciplinary center, part of Stanford School of Medicine at Stanford University, Stanford, California. Considered a "unique facility", it was one of the first research centers to ...
in the Stanford School of Medicine was funded in part by $12 million from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, approximately one-fifth of the costs for the new center. It opened in May 1989. The Beckman Fellows program was established in 1999 to support young researchers. Recipients include:
* Susanna Mlynarczyk-Evans (2008–2011)
* Sheila Jaswal (2003–2006)
* Zach Serber (2003–2006)
* Frederic Charron (2002–2005)
* Kevin Travers (2002–2005)
* Michael Galko (2001–2004)
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Beckman Institute at Caltech
In 2000, the Beckman Institute at Caltech
The Beckman Institute at Caltech is a multi-disciplinary center for research in the chemical and biological sciences, located at and partnering with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California, United States.
Founding ...
in Pasadena received a grant from the Beckman Foundation to support Beckman Postgraduate Fellowships for five years. Fellowships were for a three-year period. The following people have been recipients:
University of California at Irvine (UC Irvine)
Gavin Herbert Eye Institute (UC Irvine Health)
The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation supported construction of The Gavin Herbert Eye Institute at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
The University of California, Irvine School of Medicine (UC Irvine School of Medicine or UCI School of Medicine) is an LCME accredited medical school, co-located in Orange County's cities of Irvine on the University of California, Irvine campus ...
. The facility is designed specifically for ease of use by low-vision patients. The institute opened in 2013, and as of Feb. 12, 2013, was awarded a grant for fellowships by the Beckman Foundation.
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