Foresight Institute Distinguished Student Award Instructions
Nominations
Deadline for submitting nominations: October 31, 2012.
Nominations must have a summary with the nominee's address, telephone, and (if possible) fax and email address.
The nomination should describe the work for which the student is being nominated.
He or she must be a full-time student at the time of the presentation. The student should not have received their PhD before January 2013.
Please submit the above information in ONE email to foresight@foresight.org with a "cc" (courtesy copy) sent to jlewis@foresight.org.
Supporting documents for all applications must be submitted in one of two ways:
- PREFERRED: A URL pointing at the full document, no fee required. URLs pointing to journal web sites that charge fees for non-subscriber access are not acceptable.
- An email attachment of the full document emailed to foresight@foresight.org, with nominee's name included
Relevant Research Areas
Research areas considered relevant to molecular nanotechnology and molecular manufacturing include but are not limited to:
- artificial molecular machines
- atomically-precise construction
- biomolecular machinery
- computational chemistry and molecular modeling
- mechanosynthesis
- nanomechanical engineering
- nanomanipulation
- natural molecular machines
- scanning probes and nanometrology
- self-assembly
- self-replicating machines
- supramolecular chemistry
- ultra-precision machining
Special consideration will be given to submissions clearly leading toward the construction of a general-purpose molecular assembler. Applicants wishing further information on the field of the prize are referred to the book Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation (Wiley Interscience, 1992).
Award
The prizewinner will receive $1,000.00 plus a physical award.
The prizewinner must accept in person at the award ceremony. The prizewinner will receive complimentary full registration including reception, coach airfare and up to 2 nights hotel (arranged by Foresight Institute, Sat. night stay may be required), and the physical award.
2012 Distinguished Student Award
Previously awarded Distinguished Student Awards
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