CINF Scholarship for Scientific Excellence

(Sponsored by Elsevier MDL)

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

Up to five scholarships valued at $1,000 each will be presented at the 235th ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, April 6 - 10, 2008. Applicants must be enrolled at a certified college or university, and they will present a poster during the Sci-Mix session at the National Meeting. Abstracts for the poster must be submitted electronically through OASYS.

To apply, please inform the Chair of the selection committee, Guenter Grethe at ggrethe@comcast.net, that you are applying for a scholarship. Submit your abstract at
http://oasys.acs.org/acs/235nm/cinf/papers/index.cgi
by clicking on CINF Scholarship. To enter your abstract, just follow the instructions. The deadline for submitting an abstract to OASYS is November 4, 2007. Additionally, please send a 2,000-word abstract describing the work to be presented in electronic form to the Chair of the selection committee by January 15, 2008. 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 Elsevier MDL-CINF Scholarship for Scientific Excellence" at the poster session.