Student Awards to Attend the Annual Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates

这项授予橡树岭联合大学(ORAU)的国际旅行奖将提供支持，使大约25名美国研究生能够参加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、生理学或医学系的学生每年都会在德国林道会面。每年，一个由大约600名学生组成的国际团体被邀请参加为期一周的会议。该项目包括上午的正式讲座，每天剩下的时间留给学生们与诺贝尔奖获得者科学家以及他们来自世界各地的同学非正式会面。方案周期围绕上述三个诺贝尔奖主题展开，然后是每四年一次的多学科主题，涵盖所有这三个诺贝尔奖重点领域。加上另一个由美国能源部、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大约35人的队列，这笔赠款将使参加这些会议的美国代表团中的研究生人数达到70人。该计划的目标是通过与来自世界各地的诺贝尔奖获得者和同学的接触和互动，激励参与该计划的美国学生在他们选择的职业中取得卓越成就。这项国际旅行活动以及国家科学基金会对其的支持产生了更广泛的影响，包括对参与活动的学生的科学生涯发展可能产生的协同影响，启动长期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 (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. 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 seventy 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 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.