Detlev Bronk Award

Eligibility: graduating seniors only. This award recognizes academic excellence in terms of GPA. Selected by faculty.

H. Keffer Hartline Award

Eligibility: graduating seniors only. The Hartline award recognizes undergraduate research excellence. To be eligible, students must have participated in at least one Biophysics Undergrad Research Festival (BURF)/Poster session, and they must submit an Honors thesis.

Superb science poorly presented will not receive the award nor will superb writing about poor science. Those wishing to be considered must announce their candidacy to the director of undergraduate studies (DUS) and must submit a written paper describing their research using the guidelines detailed in the honors papers guidelines.

Ete Z. Szüts Undergraduate Research Travel Award

This award, named in honor of a PhD graduate student from this department, will provide funds for up to 80% of the transportation costs of undergraduate research students in biophysics to attend a scholarly meeting. A member of the Biophysics Department faculty who will be at the same meeting must sponsor recipients.

Honors in Biophysics

To be eligible for departmental honors at graduation, biophysics majors must achieve an overall GPA of 3.5 or higher. In addition, a paper based on their mandatory 6 lab research credits must be submitted and be acceptable to the student’s research supervisor and research sponsor.

To qualify, students must complete the honors checklist for biophysics and have it approved by their faculty adviser and the DUS coordinator by late March. Specific dates will be sent to graduating seniors in February of each year.