Stacey Roberts and Michael Lassner Award have two awards available for summer research in the Genome Center. The student must have a 3.25 GPA and be sophomore, junior or senior standing. The student must be interested in applying modern technology to agriculture or plant sciences in its broadest terms. Preference (not a requirement) for the award should be given to students who demonstrate financial need.

Awardees must be majoring in one of these areas:
College of Biological Sciences: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biological Science, Cellular Biology, Genetics and Genomics, Microbiology or Plant Biology.
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences: Biotechnology, Environmental Horticulture and Urban Forestry, Plant Sciences or Viticulture and Enology.