MICaB Awards

The Golden Pipetman Award is given to an outstanding MICaB student who has contributed to the excellence of the MICaB program.  The contribution can be in the form of publications, outside funding, and/or service to the program. Either MICaB students or faculty may nominate current MICaB students for the Golden Pipetman Award.  Recipients are selected by the MICaB Awards Committee.

The Bacaner Research Award program is sponsored by the Minnesota Medical Foundation to encourage intellectual achievement by graduate students and is underwritten by a gift to the Foundation in memory of Jack and Minnie Bacaner.  The award is $1,500 annually. 

The MICaB Travel Award provides $1,000 for MICaB students to attend national and international research conferences and meetings.  These competitive travel awards are given annually to MICaB students on the basis of merit, need, or both. 

The Watson Fellowship is an annual competitive award for microbiology track students beginning their fourth year of study in the MICaB program and have as their faculty advisor a member of the microbiology faculty or MICaB microbiology track faculty. The student receives a one-year non-renewable fellowship in addition to a $500 cash award. 

The purpose of the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) program is to give outstanding final-year Ph.D. candidates who are making timely progress toward the degree--typically those entering their fifth year of graduate study--an opportunity to complete the dissertation within the upcoming academic year by devoting full-time effort to the research and writing of the dissertation. Candidates must be nominated by the DGS to an all-University competition. Instructions to nominees and application forms are available from the DGS in late fall. 

Three J. Jacob Kaplan awards are presented annually for the most meritorious student papers on either clinical or basic medical research and includes a $4,000 award. An award is available for research in three fields of medicine: immunology in diagnosis and treatment of cancer; gastroenterology; and, cardiology. The awards are intended to encourage and recognize scholarly achievement in medical research by young investigators at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

This $1,000 award is presented for outstanding research by a graduate or medical student in the field of breast cancer.  An ad hoc faculty committee chooses the recipient. 

This $1,000 award is presented annually for outstanding research by a graduate or medical student in the field of cellular growth regulation. An ad hoc faculty committee chooses the recipient.