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Choosing a Mentor

If you are selected as a Beckman Scholar , you must choose a faculty member affiliated with the program to serve as your research mentor. You will not specify who you want to work with in your application. If you are fortunate enough to be chosen as a Beckman Scholar, we will then ask which research group you wish to join

The Beckman Mentors

The members of the Beckman Scholar Faculty Mentor group were selected for their track records in teaching and research, and in particular for their work with undergraduate researchers. Additionally, the group was chosen to provide a good cross-section of the different research strengths within our department. For the 2007-10 funding period, we were allowed to expand our mentor list to 15, and have widened the membership to faculty within the Chemistry and Biochemistry Graduate Studies Committee, meaning we have several non-department affiliated professors on our list now. The members of the mentor group are listed here, along with short list of their research interests and links to their research websites:

Faculty	Research interests	Web pages
Eric Anslyn anslyn@austin.utexas.edu	Bioorganic materials Functional devices	Professor Research group
Jeffrey Barrick jbarrick@cm.utexas.edu	Synthetic biology Experimental evolution Deep sequencing	Professor Research group
Karen Browning kbrowning@cm.utexas.edu	Biochemistry Structural molecular biology Proteins, mRNA	Professor Research group
Andy Ellington ellingtonlab@gmail.com	Evolution engineering Chemical-biological warfare defense Medical diagnostics	Professor Research group
George Georgiou gg@che.utexas.edu	Protein engineering Enzyme catalysis Protein biosynthesis	Professor Research group
Graeme Henkelman henkelman@utexas.edu	Theoretical chemistry Computational chemistry Surface chemistry of materials	Professor Research group
Brad Holliday bholliday@cm.utexas.edu	Inorganic materials Polymers Optoelectronic materials	Professor Research group
Brent Iverson iversonb@austin.utexas.edu	Organic Bioorganic Structural molecular biology	Professor Research group
Stephen Martin sfmartin@mail.utexas.edu	Synthesis, Bioorganic Natural products Physical biochemistry	Professor Research group
Jonathan Sessler sessler@cm.utexas.edu	Organic Bioorganic Synthesis	Professor Research group
Jason Shear jshear@cm.utexas.edu	Bioanalytical Biomaterials Neurochemistry	Professor Research group
John Stanton jfstanton@mail.utexas.edu	Theoretical/Computational Chemical physics Quantum mechanics	Professor Research group
Keith Stevenson stevenson@cm.utexas.edu	Electrochemistry Analytical Surface chemistry	Professor Research group
Lauren Webb lwebb@cm.utexas.edu	Biophysical chemistry Biomaterials Surface chemistry	Professor Research group
Grant Willson willson@che.utexas.edu	Organic Materials science Polymers	Professor Research group