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The Mendel Medal shall be conferred once each year, but it need not be
conferred annually. An Advisory Committee, chaired by the Dean of the College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences, shall recommend candidates for the Medal to the
President of the University. The final selection and approval of candidates for
the Medal shall rest with the President and the Board of Trustees. The Advisory
Committee shall meet at least once a year to consider candidates and to
recommend to the President as to whether or not the award is to be made, and the
candidate to whom it is to be made.
In making final decisions as to the award of the Mendel Medal to individual
candidates, the Advisory Committee shall be guided by the following principles:
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It will be awarded for distinguished service in advancing
the cause of science:
(a) for some special work in any
scientific subject that is considered of sufficient importance, or for any
distinguished work in the Life Sciences;
(b) for discovery or original
research adding to the sum of human knowledge, irrespective of commercial
value; and
(c) for meritorious inventions, discoveries, improvements in
scientific processes, methods or devices. |
It shall not be awarded in absentia.
(a) Announcement of the award shall be
made ordinarily during the latter part of October or the first part of
November, but the actual awarding of the Medal shall take place, with
appropriate ceremony, on or about the anniversary of Mendel's death, January
7, or as near thereto as is convenient.
(b) Special circumstances, however, may
make it advisable that either one or both, announcement and conferral take
place at other times.
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Advisory Committee Members:
- Rev. Kail C. Ellis, Chairman, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences
- Dr. Sarah-Vaughan Brakman, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
- Dr. Robert M. Giuliano, Professor of Chemistry
- Dr. Helen K. Lafferty, University Vice President
- Dr. Frank P. Maloney, Associate Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Dr. Joseph A. Orkwiszewski, Professor of Biology
- Dr. R. Kelman Wieder, Associate Dean for Sciences, Professor of Biology
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