Student Awards to the Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students

这项颁发给橡树岭联合大学（ORAU）的国际旅行奖将为大约25名美国研究生提供支持，使他们能够参加2007年、2008年、2009年和2010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。每年都会邀请约600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。方案周期围绕上述三个诺贝尔主题展开，随后每四年有一个涵盖所有这三个诺贝尔重点领域的多学科主题。加上由美国能源部（DOE）、美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）、ORAU和私人基金会支持的另一个大约35人的小组，这笔赠款使美国代表团中参加这些会议的研究生人数达到60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。这项国际旅行活动的广泛影响，以及由美国国家科学基金会数学与物理科学理事会和国际科学与工程办公室支持的国际旅行活动，包括对参与学生科学职业发展可能产生的协同影响，启动终身国际科学互动的潜力，以及促进学生参与者多层次多样性的机会。

This international travel award to Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) provides support that will enable a diverse group of approximately twenty-five U.S. graduate students to attend the annual meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. 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 some 600 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. The programmatic cycle revolves among the three Nobel themes noted above, followed by a multidisciplinary theme every fourth year that embraces all three of these Nobel focus areas. Together with another approximately thirty-five-member cohort supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, (DOE), the National institutes of Health (NIH), ORAU, and private foundations, this grant brings to sixty 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 by the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences and the NSF Office of International Science and Engineering include the likely synergistic 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.