The Mendel Medal
GUIDELINES:
The Mendel Medal shall be conferred once each year; but it need not be conferred
annually. An Advisory Committee, chaired by the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, shall
recommend candidates for the Medal to the President of the University. The final selection and
approval of candidates for the Medal shall rest with the President and the Board of Trustees. The
Advisory Committee shall meet at least once a year to consider candidates and to recommend to the
President as to whether or not the award is to be made, and the candidate to whom it is to be
made.
In making final decisions as to the award of the Mendel Medal to individual candidates
the Advisory Committee shall be guided by the following principles:
- The Mendel Medal shall be awarded for distinguished service in advancing the
cause of science. It may be awarded: (a) for some special work in any scientific
subject that is considered of sufficient importance, or for any distinguished work
in the Life Sciences; (b) for discovery or original research adding to the sum of
human knowledge, irrespective of commercial value; and (c) for meritorious
inventions, discoveries, improvements in scientific processes, methods or devices.
- It shall not be awarded in absentia. Announcement of the award shall be made
ordinarily during the latter part of October or the first part of November, but the
actual awarding of the Medal shall take place, with appropriate ceremony, on or
about the anniversary of Mendel's death, January 7, or as near thereto as is
convenient. Special circumstances, however, may make it advisable that either
one or both, announcement and conferral take place at other times.
Advisory Committee Members:
- Rev. Kail C. Ellis, Chairman, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Dr. Sarah-Vaughan Brakman, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
- Dr. Robert M. Giuliano, Professor of Chemistry
- Dr. Helen K. Lafferty, University Vice President
- Dr. Frank P. Maloney, Associate Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Dr. Joseph A. Orkwiszewski, Professor of Biology
- Dr. R. Kelman Wieder, Associate Dean for Sciences, Professor of Biology
© 1996 Frank P. Maloney and Villanova University
