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The history and scientific contribution of Black, Indigenous, and racialized people has been conspicuously absent from science curriculum and members of these groups are under-represented in biological fields.
The Henrietta Lacks Scholarship is awarded annually on the recommendation of the Chair of the Department of Biology to an outstanding full-time student in the second year of a degree program in Biology or Biochemistry who is a Black woman. Eligible undergraduate students in Biology and Biochemistry entering their second year of study in 2022-2023 are encouraged to apply. This scholarship was initiated and made possible through the remarkable fundraising efforts of the Carleton HeLa Team.
The scholarship was established in 2021 in memory of Henrietta Lacks, whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. HeLa cells have been used in a pair of upper-year cell biology courses at Carleton University for the past 10 years. In 2022, a first-floor lab in the Tory Building has been renamed the Lacks Lab.
Please submit applications by email to biology@carleton.ca by end of day Tuesday, May 31, 2022.
General eligibility criteria:
- Black students who are women
- Enrolled in the second year of full-time enrolment in a degree program in Biology or Biochemistry
- Demonstrated interest in increased representation for Black women in science
- Demonstrated financial need
Visit the scholarship web page for more details.
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