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December 13, 2005


NICOLAOS ALEXOPOULOS, DEAN OF ENGINEERING
JANOS LANYI, CHAIR OF PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOPHYSICS
DEBRA RICHARDSON, DEAN OF INFORMATION AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
RON STERN, DEAN OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES

RE: Graduate Student Awards to Attend the 56th Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates

The Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation will sponsor approximately 50 U.S. graduate students to attend the 56th meeting of Nobel laureates and students in Lindau, Germany on June 25-30, 2006. Each year, an international group of 400 students attend lectures by Nobel laureates and participate in informal small-group meetings with the Nobel Prize winners to discuss a wide range of issues about their research and other activities. Students sponsored by this award will meet in Washington, DC for an orientation meeting and travel as a delegation to Germany. Transportation, lodging and registration expenses will be arranged and paid for by the agencies.

The Chancellor may nominate only two graduate students for this award (one working on a DOE-SC funded project and one working on an NSF-MPS funded project). To be eligible, a student must:
  • Be a U. S. citizen;
  • Be enrolled as a full-time graduate student in chemistry, physics, medicine/physiology, or in a related field;
  • Have completed, by September 2006, two years (but not more than three years) of study toward a doctoral degree; and
  • Currently participating in a research project funded by the DOE Office of Science or the NSF Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences.
For the internal selection process, I am requesting that the student's research mentor send a one-page nomination letter and the student’s one-page resume to my office by January 11, 2006, and identify the DOE or NSF project in which the student is participating. If necessary, nominations will be reviewed by an ad hoc committee of the Council on Research, Computing and Library Resources (CORCLR) and the campus nominees notified in time to submit the online application by the February 1, 2006, deadline.

For further information, visit http://www.orau.gov/lindau2006/. Please contact Mia Larson at x4-2898 if you have any questions.

William H. Parker
Vice Chancellor for Research

cc: Associate Dean J. Reinelt
Assistant Dean D. Green
B. Riley
M. Larson