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BioCommunications Association has funds available
for assisting persons actively pursuing careers
in biological imaging. BCA membership is not
a requirement. Any student, trainee, biocommunicator
or institutional program that can demonstrate
a need for project funding may apply.
Started in 1982 as the
Sam Agnello Memorial Education Fund, the
BioCommunications Association has an established
endowment fund, which is used to fund educational
projects. It incorporates a portion of the
former Bernard Friedman Foundation, which
was established to support microscopy. This
fund is known as the Endowment Fund for
Education (EFFE). The objectives of EFFE
are to promote and assist study and research
in the field of biological communication
by the application of scholarship and grants
for such purposes, and to promote the Association
as a key source of opportunities for the
study and research of visual communication
media in the life sciences.
EFFE promotes and assists
study and research in the field of biological
communication by providing financial support
to the projects approved by the EFFE governing
committee. The EFFE committee evaluates
the completed applications received within
the annual deadline and makes awards based
on merit and the availability of funds.
These funds are generated from the interest
earned from investment of the EFFE principal
sum in several financial instruments, most
of which are mutual stock funds. A majority
of the fund is derived from the generous
contributions of BCA members. EFFE funds
can only be used for approved educational
projects. They can never be used for the
operating expenses of the Association. EFFE
funds are completely separate from the general
operating funds of the BCA.
The EFFE fund has awarded
grants to applicants from several countries
for a wide variety of projects such as preparation
for certification, attendance at workshops,
photographic exhibit support, and the development
of new imaging techniques for the microscope.
Awards are limited to no more than 33% of
available funds for the year and are typically
$500 or less.
EFFE application
deadline for 2008 is Friday, April 25, 2008.
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Dr. Kevin Bush of Nova
Scotia, Canada examines an infant during
screening day. A medical photographer whose
expenses were partly paid by EFFE accompanied
Project Smile's volunteer doctors to Ecuador
to document patients undergoing corrective
surgery of cleft palates.
The EFFE Application and
Guidelines PDF is enabled for electronic
completion and submission to Cheryl Montgomery
at montgoch@ohsu.edu
or Fax: 503-494-8742.
For additional information,
please contact Cheryl Montgomery at 503-494-7124.
Project
Samples
Application
and Guidelines
EFFE
Committee
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