Department Awards
The department offers the following prizes
and awards: the Donald E. Lancefield
Award, for excellence in biology, to be
awarded to the biology major with the high-
est grade-point average; the Darwin Prize,
for the biology major with the second high-
est grade-point average who has demon-
strated an interest in research; the Laura H.
and ArthurL. Colwin Prize, for excel-
lence in undergraduate research, to be
awarded to a biology major who is not a
pre-professional student; the Muriel &
Philip Feigelson Award, to a graduating
senior majoring in biology who has done
the best undergraduate research and has also
demonstrated significant academic achieve-
ment; the Adele Mae GottschalkScholar-
ship Fund, to provide a tuition scholarship
each year for a female student in her sopho-
more, junior, or senior year who intends to
pursue a medical career; the Max K. Hecht
Scholarship Fund, to a junior or graduating
senior, who is considered to be an outstand-
ing biology major, with accomplishments in
academic research studies (preference will
be given to students interested in organis-
mic biology, Max’s field); and the VictorJ.
Jules Scholarship, awarded to biology
majors who: (1) have demonstrated finan-
cial need, (2) have filed a concentration
plan as a major and completed or be in the
process of completing at least 6 credits of
electives in biology, and (3) have an overall
GPAof at least 3.0 (first consideration will
be given to eligible sophomores and then to
juniors; this endowed scholarship is to be
used for educational expenses).