PhD Candidates: Please share with those interested/eligible. Pre-proposals are due Monday, April 11!
From: Brinkman, Heather E
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2022 11:35 AM
To: Subject: 2022 Chorafas Foundation Award - Call for pre-proposals deadline 04/11/2022
Dear Associate Deans,
We would appreciate you forwarding this communication to your Schools/Departments Graduate Administrators/Chairs/Staff.
Purdue University will nominate one young PhD graduate student researcher for the 2022 Chorafas Foundation Award. The
$5,000 award, made available by the Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation, is intended as a prize for advanced studies and/or research during or shortly after graduation. The Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation was founded in 1992 under the leadership of Prof.
Dimitris N. Chorafas. Each year, the Foundation awards prizes to more than 20 universities, with the goal of stimulating promising young researchers.
Applications are invited from eligible PhD students enrolled in any College at Purdue.
Research projects in the following areas are eligible for the Chorafas prize:
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Life Sciences & Medicine
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Physics
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Chemistry (including nanotechnology)
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Mathematics
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Informatics/Computer Science
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Engineering of Finance & Risk Management
Eligibility:
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Applications are invited from PhD students enrolled
in any College at Purdue University.
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Applicants may not be older than 32 years on May 31, 2022 (born after 5/31/1990).
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Candidate students must have graduated or be expected to graduate between
May 31, 2021 and December 31, 2022. Candidates can only be nominated once.
Process:
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Selection of a Purdue nominee will be a two-phase process. Students are invited to submit pre-proposals for the Chorafas Foundation Award by
Monday, April 11, 2022.
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A maximum of 5 finalists will be selected to submit a full nomination package. The deadline for submitting full nomination packets is
Tuesday, May 10, 2022.
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The cover page and all requirements and criteria for pre-proposals and final proposals are provided in the attachment.
All pre-proposals, regardless of students home College/Department, should be sent to the
attention of Heather Brinkman, College of Engineering, electronically as one PDF File emailed to
hbrinkma@purdue.edu
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Please let me know if you have any questions.
Heather Brinkman
Senior Administrative Assistant to the Associate Dean of Research & Innovation
College of Engineering
Armstrong Building
701 West Stadium Avenue, Suite 3000
West Lafayette, IN 47907
o: 765-494-5178
hbrinkma@purdue.edu
https://engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/Research
