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:
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.
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, College Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences
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
