Friday, February 02, 2007

CINF Scholarship for Scientific Excellence Sponsored by FIZ Chemie Berlin

The scholarship program of the Division of Chemical Information (CINF) of the American Chemical Society (ACS) funded by FIZ CHemie Berlin is designed to reward graduate and postdoctoral students in chemical information and related sciences for scientific excellence and to foster their involvement in CINF.

Three scholarships valued at $1,000 each will be given out at the 234th ACS National Meeting in Boston, August 19 -23, 2007. Applicants have to be enrolled at a certified college or university. They have to present a poster during the Sci-Mix session at the National Meeting. Abstracts for the posters have to be submitted electronically through OASYS before April 2, 2007. Please, go to http://oasys.acs.org/acs/234nm/cinf/papers/index.cgi and click on Sci-Mix. To enter your abstract, just follow the instructions. At the same time, inform the Chair of the selection committee, Guenter Grethe at ggrethe@comcast.net, that you are applying for a scholarship. Additionally, a 2,000-word long abstract describing the work to be presented has to be sent in electronic form to the Chair of the selection committee by June 15, 2007. Any questions related to applying for one of the scholarships should be directed to the same e-mail address.

Winners will be chosen based on contents, presentation and relevance of the poster and they will be announced at the meeting. The contents shall reflect upon the student's work and describe research in the field of cheminformatics and related sciences. Winning posters will be marked "Winner of the CINF-FIZ Chemie Berlin Academic Scientific Excellence" at the poster session.

From the CHMINF-L list, Feb 2/07

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