Dr. Barbara Detrick ’65 Endowed Scientific Scholarship

This endowed scholarship is aimed at promoting the development of students majoring in biology, chemistry, or related sciences, in the Department of Natural Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Caldwell University, who, in the future may assume leadership roles in science and who will serve as a model for the next generation of scientists.

Specifically, this endowment facilitates an environment that supports the growth of Caldwell University undergraduate students’ basic science research and enhances their professional skills, including expanding their professional opportunities in the future in academia and industry. Also, this endowment may be used to support funding for the purchase of research reagents and equipment, textbooks or for students to attend and present their findings at professional basic scientific meetings or workshops.

The Dr. Barbara Detrick ’65 Endowed Scientific Scholarship, established in 2021 by Barbara Detrick, provides support for the retention and graduation of a high-achieving student, who is a full-time undergraduate student in good academic standing (Junior or Senior Class status) majoring in biology, chemistry, or related sciences, and currently or previously registered in NS 411 or NS 412, at Caldwell University for the purposes of funding science-related research and scholarship. Eligible candidate (s) will be selected by a faculty committee from the Department of Natural Sciences faculty in the Caldwell University School of Arts and Sciences.

Scholarship candidates shall include the following in their application:

• Unofficial Caldwell University transcript from the Caldwell Portal
• Resume/CV
• One page essay (600 word maximum) on why you would like to be considered for this scholarship and how this scholarship will assist you in reaching your academic goals.

Scholarship award recipients will also be required to complete their research project, present their project at Caldwell Research and Creative Arts Day and at least one external research symposium and write a letter of thanks to Dr. Detrick detailing what the scholarship allowed the student to accomplish.

Email required application materials to Dr. Darryl Aucoin ([email protected]) by January 27, 2025. 

Barbara Detrick, ’65, Ph.D. is professor emerita of pathology and former director of the Immunology Laboratory and Cytokine Laboratory at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Detrick is a clinical immunology scientist who is internationally recognized for her broad laboratory and clinical as well as basic, translational and applied research accomplishments in the field of immunology. Prior to joining Hopkins, she performed research at the National Institutes of Health and served as Chief of Diagnostic Immunology Laboratory at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the George Washington University. Her research efforts have focused mainly in two areas: clinical immunology with emphasis on cytokine biology in immune diseases and ocular immunology.  Dr. Detrick has published more than 125 peer-reviewed papers and invited reviews in the field of immunology and has authored four textbooks as well as 27 book chapters.  She is the Editor of the Manual of Molecular and Clinical Laboratory Immunology, 7^th, 8^th and 9^th Editions.  This is the international authoritative guide for clinical laboratory immunology. Moreover, she is a co-discoverer of the RPE65 protein which led the way to development of the RPE 65 gene therapy for a pediatric retinal degenerative disease.  In a continuing effort to foster excellence in science, in the basic, translation and clinical levels, Dr. Detrick provides this scholarship to young next-generation scientists at Caldwell University.