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Two of the mentors of this year's four Beckman Scholars, Lou Guillette, and David Julian, are professors in Zoology! Scholar Lari McEdward is an honorary member of the department, the daughter of the late Dr. Larry McEdward.

Beckman Scholar Awards: For the second year in a row, UF was one of 13 universities selected to receive a Beckman Scholar Award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, based on its commitment to quality undergraduate research. The awards program provides scholarships, supplies and travel funding for undergraduates majoring in chemistry, biochemistry, the biological and medical sciences or an interdisciplinary combination of these sciences.

Each student is paired with a faculty mentor and required to perform 10 hours of research each week during the academic year and work full-time for 10 weeks during two summers. All four Beckman Scholars selected for 2005 are CLAS students: Casie Hilliard, chemistry and mathematics sophomore, mentored by Chemistry Professor Lisa McElwee-White; Lari McEdward, an interdisciplinary neuroscience sophomore, mentored by Zoology Professor Lou Guillette; Edward Miller, a chemistry sophomore, mentored by Assistant Professor of Biochemistry Mavis Agbandje-McKenna in the College of Medicine; and Kristen Misiak, a biochemistry and English sophomore, mentored by Assistant Professor of Zoology David Julian.

Louis J. Guillette, Jr.
Associate Dean for Research, CLAS
Distinguished Professor of Zoology
Ph.D. University of Colorado, 1981

David Julian
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. UCSF, 1997