Neuroscience Ph.D. candidate Steven Flavell has been selected, along with a dozen other graduate students from North America, to receive the 2008 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award sponsored by the Basic Sciences Division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC). Nominations were solicited internationally with the winners selected on the basis of the quality, originality, and significance of their work.
Flavell will participate in a scientific symposium May 2 at the Hutchinson Center. The symposium will include scientific presentations by the awardees as well as poster presentations by Hutchinson Center graduate students. The award honors the late Harold M. Weintraub, a founding member of the center’s Basic Sciences Division and an international leader in the field of molecular biology.
The Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States has named Harvard senior Alison Miller among its 2008-09 scholars. The foundation’s scholarship program offers American students of “exceptional ability and outstanding achievement” the opportunity to pursue one year of graduate studies in engineering, mathematics, or the sciences at Churchill College, the University of Cambridge. The scholarship covers or assists in university and college fees, a living allowance, and travel expenses, and provides the opportunity to apply for a special research grant.
One of 13 students selected nationwide, Miller will study for the certificate of advanced study in pure mathematics in the Department of Mathematics. There, she will further her interests in algebraic number theory and explore new and related interests in algebraic geometry and representation theory.
— Compiled by Andrew Brooks
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