Diego Martinez, Chessa Scullin and Denis Seletskiy, all students at the University of New Mexico, were selected by various agencies to represent the United States as outstanding research participants at the 57th Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students in Lindau, Germany.
Martinez was selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as one of 10 outstanding research participants. Scullin was selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as one of 20 outstanding research participants, and Seletskiy was selected by Mars, Inc., as one of five outstanding research participants.
Both Martinez (2001) and Scullin (2004) are UNM graduates, while Seletskiy is a 2001 graduate of the University of Alaska with a current research concentration at UNM in optical science. Martinez’ research concentration is in genomics and evolution, while Scullin’s research concentration is in neuroscience.
The participants will joined 39 other students representing the United States and more than 500 other international students at the meeting held July 1-6. The other students representing the United States are sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), in addition to DOE, Mars, Inc. and the NSF.
The primary purpose of the meeting is to allow participants—mostly students—to benefit from informal interaction with the Nobel Prize winners. Additionally, the Laureates will lecture on the topic of their choice and participate in less formal small group discussions with the students.
Since 1951, Nobel Laureates in chemistry, physics and physiology/medicine have annually convened in Lindau to conduct open and informal meetings with students and young researchers from around the world. This year’s event, which traditionally rotates by discipline each year, will focus on physiology and medicine.
Photos and a summary of events are available on the meeting’s Web site located at: http://www.orau.org/lindau/.
Media Contact: Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821; e-mail: scarr@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at June 27, 2007 04:10 PM