North Carolina ACS Undergraduate Scholarship Application
Application Deadline: April 2, 2010

The North Carolina Section of the ACS (NC ACS) is pleased to announce its annual call for undergraduate scholarship applications. Up to three scholarships of $4,000 each may be awarded to undergraduate students who will actively be conducting research in the chemical sciences. The decisions to award one or more scholarships, and the amount(s) of these scholarships, are within the sole discretion of the Executive Committee of the NC ACS. Two of the scholarships will be named in honor of distinguished NC ACS members, Dr. Ernest Eliel and Mr. Howie James.

• Dr. Ernest Eliel was a W. R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and was a central figure in the field of stereochemistry. Some of his many awards, accomplishments, and recognitions, include being a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellow, and receiving the Lavoisier Medal of the Chemical Society of France. He served as President of the American Chemical Society, and received its highest recognition, the Priestley Medal, in 1995.
• Mr. Howie James was an Executive Technical Sales Representative with the Waters Corporation and a long standing member of the Triangle Chromatography Discussion Group (TCDG). He was very active in planning and executing TCDG workshops, seminars, and the annual Triangle Symposium and Instrument Exhibit.

Additional details and eligibility criteria for the undergraduate scholarships are presented below. If you have any questions concerning the application instructions or requirements, please contact Keith Levine.

How to Apply:

• To be considered for a scholarship, the student must be an undergraduate attending and conducting research at a university within the Local Section. Applications from outside of the NC ACS geographical area will not be considered.
• Applications must be submitted online at the end of this page.
• In addition to the application, a letter of recommendation from the student's research advisor must be sent as an e-mail attachment to the scholarship committee chair: levine@rti.org.
• To be considered, applications must be submitted by April 2, 2010.
• Applicants are not required to be ACS members.
• All applicants will be notified by e-mail about the status of their application by May 3, 2010. The NC ACS will begin distributing awards on May 10, 2010.

Award Details and Requirements:

• Award recipients will be required to present their research findings at an NC ACS Conference, TCDG Conference, an ACS regional or national meeting, or a similar venue.
• Award funds will be distributed in two payments. The first payment ($3,500) will be sent to the academic department where the student is conducting research. These funds can only be used by the student or the student's advisor to pay for reagents, instrument components or labware, copies, books, software, student travel costs for presentation of scholarship-funded research results, and the student's research salary.
• The second payment ($500) will be presented directly to the student upon completion of a presentation of research findings at one of the above described venues.
• As part of the scholarship, all award recipients will be presented with an ACS student affiliate membership.

Submission may be made using this on-line form. All fields require input. The winners of this years scholarship will be invited to present their work at next year's NC ACS Sectional Conference in April. Information: Keith Levine (RTI), Chair Scholarship Committee. Members: Jim Chao (IBM-retired), John Hines (RTI), Chris Lowden (Accelrys), Sara Paisner (Lord), Ken Tomer (NIEHS) and Nicolle Tulve (EPA)

Full Name of Applicant:

School:

Applicant's E-mail:

Applicant's GPA/4.0:

Applicant's Summer Address:

Applicant's City, State, Zip:

Faculty Advisor:

Advisor's E-mail:

Advisor's Phone Number:

Advisor's Address: (Department - campus box number if appropriate)

1. What are your career plans and how do they encompass chemistry? How will this scholarship help you reach your career goals?

2. Please describe briefly your research plans that you would like to support with this scholarship?

3. How would you spend the scholarship money in support of your research plans?