Photos (left, Transgenic Nicotiana benthamiana plant. right, Diatom – unicellular algae) from the from the 2006 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. The deadline for next year is April 30, 2007.
Related: Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge – Art of Science 2006
2006 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge Winners
Winning entries communicate information about complex mathematical concepts, the intricacies of the human body, air-flight patterns, the latest scientific imaging technologies to analyze Leonardo da Vinci’s art, and more.
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25 New MacArthur Fellows Announced. Photos from left to right: Edith Widder, Kenneth Catania and Linda Griffith.
My statement from last year seems worth repeating: “I think the fellowships are a great idea: give money to people who have done excellent work. I am not sure of the motivations of the MacArthur Foundation, but if it were me I would trust by providing funds to those people they would (as a group, not every single person) take advantage of those funds to create great advances for all of humanity.”
Each fellow will receive $500,000 over the next 5 years to do with as they please. Among the winners are scientist and engineers, including:
Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology
Students may enter as individuals or as part of a team. Applications are due by 2 Oct, 2006. Up to thirty individual students and thirty teams (of 2 or 3 students) are chosen to compete at six regional competitions hosted by our partner universities MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, Notre Dame, UT Austin and UC Berkeley.
Students who win their regional competition receive a silver medal and scholarships of $3,000 (team members receive $6,000 to be divided equally between team members) and go on to compete at the national event in New York City. The top individual and top team each receive $100,000 scholarships. Runners up receive scholarships ranging from $10,000 to $50,000.
Celeste Baine Recognized for Exciting Students About Engineering
A new monthly journal, Engineering Education Advocate is available from the Engineering Education Service Center.
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The Millennium Technology Prize is a bi-annual award recognizing technology innovators created by a public private partnership in Finland. Finland understands the importance of technology advances for economic gains. Winners receive 1 million Euros. Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the web, received the first prize in 2004. The 2006 prize was awarded to Dr. Shuji Nakamura:
As LEDs can be powered by solar panels, lighting can be provided in remote areas of developing countries. In his speech, Professor Nakamura said that he will be donating part of the prize money to organizations that promote the use of LED lighting in such locations.
Related: blog posts on science and technology awards – Top prize for ‘light’ inventor – UC Santa Barbara Solid State Lighting & Display Center – Blue LED Inventor Shuji Nakamura on Rewarding Innovators in Japan
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2006 – 35 Young Innovators Under 35 from MIT’s Technology Review:
Includes: Apostolos Argyris, disguising data as noise; Jeffrey Bode, Peptide “Legos” to make new drugs; Christopher Voigt, A vision in bacteria; Michael Wong, Cleaning up with nanoparticles
Related: Nominate for next year – MacArthur Fellows
St. Joseph’s engineering college students win design contest, India:
The contest, organised by the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA), was aimed at encouraging engineering students to design innovative products.
Organising secretary K. Chandrasekaran said the event was held to address the gap between education and industry, promoting design education and take students to the logical end of working prototypes.
Related: Concentrating Solar Collector wins UW-Madison Engineering Innovation Award – Stanford Students Win $10,000 for Aneurysm Treatment – Hopeful About India’s Manufacturing Sector – India Manufacturing Data – compared to other countries – Indian National Level Engineering Students Design Contest web site
The United States Environmental Protection Agency has opened the P3: People, Prosperity and the Planet Student Design Competition for Sustainability. This competition provides grants to teams of college students to research, develop, and design solutions to challenges to sustainability. See the application and more information for details on eligibility and criteria.
Approximately 50 awards for Phase I; Approximately 10 awards for Phase II with approximately $1,250,000 total for all awards.
Up to $10,000 per Phase I grant for one year including direct and indirect costs. Proposals for Phase I grants with budgets exceeding $10,000 will not be considered. Upon the successful completion of Phase I, Phase I grant recipients will have the opportunity to apply for Phase II funding of up to $75,000 for one additional year including direct and indirect costs.
Applications are due by 21 December 2006.
The Poincaré Conjecture in simple terms “states that the three-sphere is the only type of bounded three-dimensional space possible that contains no holes. This conjecture was first proposed in 1904 by H. Poincaré” – Mathworld
Elusive Proof, Elusive Prover: A New Mathematical Mystery:
Also left hanging, for now, is $1 million offered by the Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Mass., for the first published proof of the conjecture, one of seven outstanding questions for which they offered a ransom back at the beginning of the millennium.
The Clay Math Institute site has more on the Poincar̩ Conjecture. Read about the rest of their Millennium Problems Р6 more problems each with a $1 million prize.