JAX Scholarship Nomination

Nominate a Deserving Student for the JAX College Scholarship!

The Jackson Laboratory – where we discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the global biomedical community in the shared quest to improve human health – will award $10,000 scholarships to three first generation and/or low-income students who plan to pursue a college degree and aspire to a career in biomedicine. Graduating high school seniors who reside in Connecticut, Maine, or Sacramento County, California are eligible to be nominated. One student from each location will be awarded this scholarship.

Teachers, Guidance Counselors and School Administrators should nominate students using this form. Nominations are due by February 15, 2023. We will send you a confirmation email letting you know we received your nomination and will reach out to the student to give them instructions about how to apply for the scholarship. Your nominee's application is due on March 15, 2023.

Please be sure to click on the SUBMIT button at the bottom of the form.

Information About You

Your First Name

Your Last Name

Your Title

Your School

Your Email

Your relationship to the student you are nominating for the JAX Scholarship.

Information About the Student You are Nominating for the JAX College Scholarship

First Name of Nominee

Last Name of Nominee

Email Address of Nominee (Please use their personal email address if you have it; sometimes emails sent from our address to a school address are put in the SPAM folder).

Student meets the following requirements of the JAX College Scholarship:

Financial Need

Future Studies in Biomedical Field

Why you are nominating this student for consideration for the JAX College Scholarship? Please share specific examples of why this scholarship could provide an advantage for the student in meeting their personal goals towards a career in biomedicine. (No word limit)