Science Students Win $100,000 Prize
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Description: Siemens Westinghouse announces the winners of its annual competition for high school students in math, science and technology.
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WASHINGTON - The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Maine $239,020 for environmental research, according to U.S. Sens. Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins.
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Though just teenagers, the applicants to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are a scarily accomplished lot. They have started businesses and published academic research. One built a working nuclear reactor in his garage. In their high schools, they have led every extracurricular club and mastered the SAT.
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A 17-year-old girl won a scholarship worth $100,000 for building an inexpensive yet accurate spectrograph that identifies the "fingerprints" of different molecules.
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Could computer game-inspired lesson plans help attract students to college computer science courses? Two researchers got a $147,000 National Science Foundation grant to find out.
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For the second year, the Department of Homeland Security awarded more than a hundred math, science and engineering students full tuition and a monthly stipend to pursue academics aimed at improving the nation's security. [Security Blog]
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US scientists David Gross, David Politzer and Frank Wilczeck win the Nobel physics prize for their insights into the deep structure of matter.
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A record $12.5 million grant to be announced today will revolutionize science teaching throughout Boston Public Schools, officials said.
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A group of U.S. biomedical scientists has won a $750,000 NASA grant to design a mini mass spectrometer to aid in the search for life on Mars.
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There's a $10 million prize waiting for the team that builds a super-green, ultra-efficient vehicle. Start your engines, it's the race to build the 100-mpg car.
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The winner of a $1.2 million prize for his inventions in light and laser technology said Friday he will give away some of his money to promote research at universities and organizations that help developing countries.
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National Science Foundation grants $12.6 million to university scientists to study worms, viruses and the Net's ecology.
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The American sweep of Nobel Prizes in science this year has filled the nation's science educators with pride over what's done well in labs and classrooms &#151; and angst over what's not.
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Two American scientists -- one of whom graduated from Fairfax High School -- awakened early yesterday to learn they will share a Nobel Prize for their discovery of a gene-regulating mechanism inside cells, an advance that in just eight years has revolutionized genetics and led to several...
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Two students at the Durham NC School of Science and Mathematics will split $100,000 in scholarship money for their cancer research.
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Science and engineering clubs for young teenagers in England are to receive Â£5m in support.
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The terms of the prize require competitors to sequence 100 human genomes of their choice within 10 days, and, within six months, those of a further 100 individuals chosen by the foundation.