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Supporting Young Scientists Today for Tomorrow's Breakthrough Discoveries beckman-foundation.org
2021 Instrumentation Grantee Abhishek Kumar, PhD #published in Journal of Biological Chemistry: "StayRose: a photostable StayGold derivative red-shifted by genetic code expansion."
https://ow.ly/3ySr50XANzj
#published
#stayrose
#staygold
#mcherry
#fluorescence
#microscopy
#proteinengineering
#syntheticbiology
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Best wishes for a healthy and happy Thanksgiving holiday and Fall break! Please note that our office will be closed on Thursday + Friday, Nov. 27-28.
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2022 #BSP Zachary Ellis #published in ACS Chemical Neuroscience: "Exogenous Huntingtin-Exon1 Aggregates Exhibit Distinct Levels of Toxicity to Caenorhabditis elegans."
https://ow.ly/FUxS50XveZ6
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2024 #BSP Ruby Mitchell interviews Professor Rattan Lal, Distinguished Professor of Soil Science:
https://ow.ly/9T0350XveWu
#BSP
#BeckmanScholar
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Ruby Mitchell interviews Prof. Rattan Lal - YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
https://ow.ly/9T0350XveWu
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2023 #BYI Yayuan Liu, PhD #published in Angewandte Chemie: "Multifunctional Binding Interface Drives Near-Unity CO Selectivity in Acidic CO2 Electrolysis."
https://ow.ly/i5bj50XvePK
#BYI
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Learn more about how Beckman Foundation is partnering with University Lab Partners to help inspire the next generation of #STEM students with a $25,000 grant for the BioInnovators Program:
https://ow.ly/lf3Z50XveK9
#STEM
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Beckman Foundation Announces Strategic Partnership with University Lab Partners to Accelerate STEM Innovation and Education in Orange County
Beckman Foundation Announces Strategic Partnership with University Lab Partners to Accelerate STEM Innovation and Education in Orange County
https://ow.ly/lf3Z50XveK9
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A look at today’s
#AOBPostdoc
#Coffee
Hour, where we chatted about Year 3 Renewals,
#industry
jobs, and applying to
#academia
. ☕ Join us for the next one!
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Our current #online #exhibit shows Dr. Beckman designing the Beckman DU #Spectrophotometer, described by #Nobel Laureate Bruce Merrifield as, “probably the most important instrument ever developed towards the advancement of bioscience.”
https://ow.ly/kY1w50XufvM
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Spectrophotometry: Light Transmittance & the Instrument that Transformed Chemical Analysis (ONLINE EXHIBIT)
In this online exhibit, explore Dr. Arnold O. Beckman's impact on our understanding of the field of spectroscopy and the technique of spectrophotometry, and his subsequent influence following the introduction of the Beckman DU Spectrophotometer.
https://ow.ly/kY1w50XufvM
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2023 #BSP Carly Slough #published in The Journal of Organic Chemistry: "Photocatalytic Activation of Heterocyclic Iodonium Ylides for the Synthesis of Dihydrofuropyranones and Dihydrofuropyridones."
https://ow.ly/FNmf50XtF5h
#BSP
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Wishing the happiest of birthdays to our very good friend Harry Gray, PhD, from all of us at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation!
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Wesley Chang, PhD, 2021
#AOBPostdoc
, was selected as 1 of 5 recipients for the ‘25-‘26 Electrochemical Society (ECS) Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship. Work will focus on developing an ultrasound tomography instrument for depth-resolved characterization of batteries. Congrats!
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Christina Kim, PhD (2023
#BYI
) was named a Freeman Hrabowski Scholar (HHMI) for research on how the brain transforms transient cellular dynamics into long-lasting behavioral changes.
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It’s #newsletter sign-up time! Get the latest #updates on all things Beckman delivered right to your inbox. #Subscribe to the Beckman Bites monthly e-newsletter:
https://ow.ly/3sPX50Xpybh
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Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation Email Forms
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Beckman Awardees: Organizing or Hosting a Seminar or Conference at Your Institution? The Beckman Speaker and Conference Support Fund is open to all current Foundation awardees.
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2022 #BYI Hadi Nia, PhD published in npj Biological Physics and Mechanics: "Micromechanics of lung capillaries across mouse lifespan and in positive- vs negative-pressure ventilation.”
https://ow.ly/F3Ua50XncWZ
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Micromechanics of lung capillaries across mouse lifespan and in positive- vs negative-pressure ventilation | npj Biological Physics and Mechanics
The lung undergoes continuous remodeling throughout normal development and aging, including changes to alveolar and capillary structure and function. While histological methods allow for static analysis of these age-related changes, characterizing the changes that occur in response to mechanical stimuli remains difficult, particularly over a dynamic, physiologically relevant range in a functioning lung. Alveolar and capillary distension – the change in diameter of alveoli and capillaries, respectively, in response to pressure changes – is one such process, where dynamically controlling and...
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2024 #BSP Heidi Tarnaski published in Neuroscience Letters: "Learning from a novel 'Tutor' Uncouples song imitation and preference in zebra finches."
https://ow.ly/VxTs50Xm0p3
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Learning from a novel “Tutor” Uncouples song imitation and preference in zebra finches
Neuroscientists commonly use behavior to assess the impact of experimental neural manipulations. While novel technical methods need to be carefully co…
https://ow.ly/VxTs50Xm0p3
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University Lab Partners Awarded $25,000 Grant for BioInnovators Program! University Lab Partners is the latest recipient of a Beckman OC Community Support Grant. This funding will enable ULP's BioInnovators Program to work with OC high school students committed to publishing...
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7 Beckman awardees publish in ACS Nano! PhDs Thomas Kempa, Chad Mirkin, Michelle Personick, Dayne Swearer, Michelle Teplensky, Weihong Tan & Peidong Yang, along with other scientists, explored answers to "33 Unresolved Questions in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology."
https://ow.ly/v1MP50Xj9CJ
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Stanley O. Ikenberry Endowed Chair Emeritus at the University of Illinois Jeffrey S. Moore published in ACS Macro Letters: "Chemical Activation of Frontal Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization."
https://ow.ly/YoMi50XiwpY
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2019
#AOBPostdoc
AND 2025
#Packard
Fellow!!! Amazing!!! Congratulations, Ben! 👏👏👏 Ben Snyder named 2025 Packard Fellow:
chemistry.illinois.edu/news/2025-10...
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Ben Snyder named 2025 Packard Fellow | Department of Chemistry | Illinois
CHAMPAIGN, Ill.
https://chemistry.illinois.edu/news/2025-10-20/ben-snyder-named-2025-packard-fellow
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2025
#BYI
, 2020
#AOBPostdoc
AND a 2025
#Packard
Fellow!!! Outstanding!!! Congratulations, James! 👏👏👏 Chemist James Gaynor receives Packard Fellowship: Award honors the nation’s most innovative early-career scientists and engineers
news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025...
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Chemist James Gaynor receives Packard Fellowship
Award honors the nation’s most innovative early-career scientists and engineers
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025/10/chemist-james-gaynor-receives-packard-fellowship
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Grant Lai (2024
#BSP
) was awarded a Churchill Scholarship to study at Cambridge University. Grant is one of only 16 recipients of the 2025-26
#ChurchillScholarship
, and the first student from
@ucirvine.bsky.social
to receive this prestigious award.
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Congratulations to Erin Schuman, PhD, (1996
#BYI
) Director and Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, elected as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine! Schuman is recognized “for her work that provided the first evidence that proteins made locally...
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JUST HIRED: 2024
#AOBPostdoc
, Pamela Cai, PhD, accepted a position at Until Labs as a Senior Polymer Scientist. Congratulations!
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Q: Who was the first woman to win a Beckman Young Investigator Award?
#AskAnArchivist
Day
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Pembroke Fellow in Organic Chemistry, Yimon Aye, PhD, (2014
#BYI)
is one of seven researchers at the University of Oxford awarded Advanced Grants from the European Research Council. Each grant is worth up to €2.5 million over a period of five years. Congratulations!
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BYI Kim Orth Receives Two Prestigious Awards! Congratulations to Kim Orth, PhD, (2003
#BYI
) awarded the 2026 ASM Award for Basic Research. The
#ASM
Award recognizes an outstanding scientist whose discoveries have been fundamental to advancing our understanding of the microbial world.
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2024 #BYI Lea Winter, PhD published in Nature Chemical Engineering: "Tuning nitrate reduction reaction selectivity via selective adsorption in electrified membranes."
https://ow.ly/Ekgg50XaMFu
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Tuning nitrate reduction reaction selectivity via selective adsorption in electrified membranes | Nature Chemical Engineering
Improving electrochemical reactions by manipulating the properties of catalyst active sites often involves tradeoffs in activity, selectivity, stability and material costs. Here we incorporate a nitrite-adsorbing ionophore as a cooperative nitrite-enriching component into an electrified membrane to achieve high nitrate conversion (94.6%) and ammonia selectivity (91.9%) with a treatment time of only a few seconds (6 s). The ionophore enriched nitrite within the local electrocatalyst environment, facilitating conversion of unreacted nitrite to ammonia to inhibit overall nitrite formation...
https://ow.ly/Ekgg50XaMFu
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reposted by
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)
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What does an accessible lab look like? Many research labs are inaccessible to disabled scientists, but they don’t have to be.
#DisabledInSTEM
#NDEAM
#chemsky
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cen.acs.org/careers/dive...
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Making space in STEM for people with disabilities
Many research labs are inaccessible to disabled scientists, but they don’t have to be
https://cen.acs.org/careers/diversity/Making-space-STEM-people-disabilities/102/i4?sc=251010_sc_eng_bs_cen
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More pics from
@coschoolofmines.bsky.social
: 🌟 2025
#BSP
Caitlyn Castellion gave a tour of the Kumar Lab + work she is doing focused on development of glycosaminoglycan-mimetic cell culture substrates to promote cell self-renewal. Caitlyn’s on a patent application w her lab for culture work!
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Attending
#Pacifichem2025
in Honolulu? Visit our table at the entrance of the Opening Reception on Monday, Dec. 15 at 6pm local time in the Hawaii Convention Center, Ballrooms A-C. See you there!
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Another pic from our visit to
Colorado School of Mines
with 2022
#BYI
and Assoc. Prof. Dylan Domaille, showing us a budget-friendly cooler hack for the lab: a kegerator! Smart + Science + Savings = 😊
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For #ArchivesMonth: We’re sharing how-to articles, templates & useful links to resources for early career archivists and museum professionals
https://ow.ly/wX7850X7Ry3
#ArchivesMonth
#history
#science
#archives
#resources
#archivist
#curator
#beckmanhistory
#museumscience
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How-To Help
How-to articles, templates, and useful links for early career archivists and museum professionals.
https://ow.ly/wX7850X7Ry3
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2/2 🌟Shout out to student researcher Ava Watson for People’s Choice award! Also pictured (with Ava and Catrina): Laksmi Krishna, Director of UG Research and 2025 BSP Institutional Contact: https://ow.ly/Ieaq50X7q2R
Colorado School of Mines
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1/2 Thanks to Beckman Foundation’s Deputy Director Catrina Bryant for these images from
Colorado School of Mines
UG Symposium: 🌟Congrats to 2025 #BSP Caitlyn Castellion for 3rd Place Poster award! Learn more:
https://ow.ly/3ckc50X7q08
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2025 Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium - Undergraduate Research
https://ow.ly/3ckc50X7q08
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Starting a new project during
#ArchivesMonth?
We've got conversation starters to help narrow the project view, identify available resources, keep things on track, and facilitate a successful launch.
#science
#history
#archives
#museum
#archivist
#curator
#resources
#support
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Beckman Foundation partners with Dragonfly Mental Health for World Mental Health Day (10/10/25) events. Workshops + talks aim to raise awareness, improve mental health knowledge and supportive skills, and eliminate stigma among academics:
https://dragonflymentalhealth.org/
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Home - Dragonfly Mental Health
Contact us for a free consultation! Dragonfly Mental Health There is a growing mental illness epidemic in higher education where graduate students have 8 times higher rates of severe depression and anxiety, far too often resulting in suicide. Our team of academic volunteers is combatting this epidem…
https://dragonflymentalhealth.org/
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We’re kicking off
#ArchivesMonth
with our poster for the theme “California Unites!” Our poster highlights resilience in the face of environmental challenges with images of Dr. Beckman’s work to ID the cause of smog in LA during the 1950s. Check it out:
www.beckman-foundation.org/exhibit-and-...
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Coming Soon! Tomorrow starts
#ArchivesMonth
, a nationwide celebration of history that takes place annually in October. Throughout the month, we'll go inside the
#AMBFArchive
for a look at
#BeckmanHistory
, sharing early model instruments, archival photos + some great resources.
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Pew Awards 22 Researchers Biomedical Science Grants: Congratulations to 2008 #BSP Steven Reilly, PhD!
https://ow.ly/UQHq50X2YfF
#BSP
Image credit: The Pew Charitable Trusts
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2022
#AOBPostdoc
@jillalty.bsky.social
talks about designing polymers as mucin mimics, and how to leverage polymer design to manipulate probiotic populations.
#newvideo
youtu.be/KlTkQNwjONI
2 months ago
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Congratulations to
@jeremybaskin.bsky.social
(2017
#BYI
), one of three recipients of the 2025 Ono Initiative Breakthrough Science Award for research on “Control of Protein Degradation by an Unusual Protein Modification."
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Congratulations to Maria Jasin, PhD (1991
#BYI
), awarded the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize recognizing Outstanding Women in Biomedical Research. Professor Jasin was one of our earliest Beckman Young Investigators and currently is the William E. Snee Chair at
@mskcancercenter.bsky.social
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That’s a wrap on our online celebration of
#NPAW2025
! Learn more about the Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship by visiting our program info page (featuring one of our amazing
#AOBPostdocs
, Dr. Alex Bredar):
www.beckman-foundation.org/programs/bec...
3 months ago
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We’ve got a Crossref DOI for our
#AOBPostdocs
plus program application support, how-to video help + science career-related resources for
#postdoc
grantseekers at
www.beckman-foundation.org/exhibit-and-...
#NPAW2025
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We’re celebrating
#postdocs
and their research for
#NPAW2025
! Visit our database of Awarded Scientists to search
#AOBPostdocs
by institution, award year, discipline, or name:
www.beckman-foundation.org/awarded-scie...
3 months ago
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The
#AOBPostdoc
Fellowship in Chemical Sciences or Chemical Instrumentation supports advanced research by postdoctoral scholars within the core areas of fundamental chemistry or the development and build of chemical instrumentation.
www.beckman-foundation.org/programs/bec...
#NPAW2025
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Get to know Dani Jessee, MPA! Meet the Program Administrator for the Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. For
#NPAW2025
, we’re re-sharing our “Five Questions” interview with Dani:
www.beckman-foundation.org/latest-news/...
#AOBPostdoc
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Where do
#AOBPostdocs
find careers in industry? Check out some of the organizations where our Beckman awardees are now:
#NPAW2025
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For
#NPAW2025
, a by-the-numbers look at the Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship program for the current year.
#AOBPostdoc
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