Professor Jason Shear nominated to the Beckman Foundation Grants Advisory Council

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is pleased to announce that Professor Jason Shear has been nominated to serve on the Grants Advisory Council (GAC) for the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. The Beckman Foundation is a major contributor to scientific research, and makes grants to non-profit research institutions to promote research in chemistry and the life sciences, and particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments, and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science. The Beckman Foundation GAC provides the Foundation with scientific expertise and guidance.

Professor Shear is the first Beckman Young Investigator to serve on the GAC. The Beckman Young Investigators Program is intended to provide research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of academic careers in the chemical and life sciences. Professor Shear received this honor in 1997 for his work in neurotransmitter secretion mapping in single cells.

Learn more about the Beckman Foundation, the Beckman Young Investigators Program and ongoing research in the Shear Lab.