Graduate Student Awards to Attend Annual Meetings of Nobel Laureates

这项向橡树岭联合大学颁发的国际旅行奖为25名美国研究生提供支持，使他们能够参加2004年、2005年和2006年在德国林道举行的诺贝尔奖获得者年度会议。自1951年以来，诺贝尔奖获得者和化学、物理、生理或医学专业的学生每年都会在德国林道会面。每年都会邀请400多名国际学生参加为期一周的会议。该计划包括上午的正式讲座，每天剩下的时间留给学生与诺贝尔奖得主科学家以及来自世界各地的同学进行非正式会面。加上由美国能源部支持的另外25人组成的代表团，这笔赠款将使参加这些会议的美国研究生代表团人数达到50人。这个项目的目标是通过与诺贝尔奖获得者和来自世界各地的同学的接触和互动，激励参与的美国学生在他们选择的职业中取得卓越成就。这项国际旅行活动和美国国家科学基金会对其支持的更广泛影响包括可能对参与的学生的科学职业发展产生催化作用，启动职业生涯的国际科学互动的潜力，以及在学生参与者中促进多层次多样性的机会。

This international travel award to Oak Ridge Associated Universities provides support that will enable a diverse group of twenty-five U.S. graduate students to attend the annual meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, in 2004, 2005, and 2006. Since 1951, Nobel Prize winners and students in chemistry, physics, and physiology or medicine have met annually in Lindau, Germany. Each year an international group of more than 400 students is invited to attend the weeklong meeting. The program includes formal lectures in the mornings and the remainder of each day is set aside for the students to meet informally with the Nobel Laureate scientists, as well as with their fellow students from around the world. Together with another twenty-five-member cohort supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, this grant brings to fifty the number of graduate students in the U.S. delegation that will participate in these meetings. The objective of this program is to motivate participating U.S. students toward excellence in their chosen careers through their exposure to and interaction with Nobel Laureates and fellow students from around the world.Broader impacts of this international travel activity and NSF support of it include the likely catalytic impact on the participating students' scientific career development, the potential for initiating career-long international scientific interactions, and the opportunity to promote diversity at multiple levels among the student participants.