The Guy C. Berry Graduate Research Award
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The Guy C. Berry Graduate Research Award
Adopted by College Council October, 2004
Revised December 7, 2005
Purpose
To encourage and recognize excellence in research by MCS graduate students
Eligibility
All graduate students in the Mellon College of Science are eligible for nomination. Each department in the college may nominate 1-2 graduate students. Students who have been nominated in the past, but who did not receive the award, are welcome to be nominated again.
Nomination Deadline
Five copies of the nominations are to be submitted to the MCS Associate Dean for Faculty and Graduate Affairs by the third Friday in March.
Nomination Requirements
Nominations should describe the qualities and activities of the nominee that make him or her an excellent candidate for the award. The nomination packet will include the following items.
- An up-to-date student CV.
- Two nominating letters, typically one from the student's research advisor
and one from another member of the faculty of Carnegie Mellon or another university.
Letter writers are encouraged to include information that will make the candidate's
dossier more accessible to a selection committee drawn from a broad range
of scientific disciplines. This could include comments on the candidate's:
- outstanding experimental or theoretical results,
- creativity,
- contributions to collaborative efforts,
- publications (including comments on the quality of the journals in which they appear).
- A one to two page research statement written by the candidate to the Selection Committee which clearly
describes his or her research and future plans.
The packet may also include one pre-print or reprint that illustrates the
quality of the nominee's research accomplishments.
Selection Committee
The recipient will be chosen by a committee appointed by the Dean of MCS that should include one faculty member per department and a chair to be appointed by the Dean.
The faculty members serve two-year terms.
Selection and Presentation of the Berry Award
The Selection Committee operates under its own rules of procedure and communicates its decision to the Dean in April. The Guy C. Berry Graduate Research Award consisting of a certificate
and check is presented to the recipient at the annual meeting of the MCS Faculty held at the end of the spring semester.
About Guy C. Berry