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Call for entries: $5,000
Bader Award Prize for
student chemists
Merck is inviting
chemistry graduate
students in their third
year or beyond to enter
research projects for a
chance to compete for
the $5,000 Alfred R.
Bader Award for Student
Innovation grand prize.
The award has been given
over the past 10 years to
up-and-coming chemists
in honor of Sigma-Aldrich
co-founder, Mr Alfred R.
Bader.
Four finalists will
each receive $500 in
cash or prizes and all-
expense paid travel
to the Bader Student
Chemistry Symposium
on 7th September at the
company’s Innovation
Center in Darmstadt,
Germany. Following
student presentations, one
$5,000 grand prize will be
announced. The deadline
to enter is June 16, 2017.
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The programme focus
includes the development
of new reagents, catalysts,
ligands, technologies,
software, labware or
instrumentation broadly
applicable to synthetic
organic chemistry. Also,
the creative use of current
reagents, catalysts, and
ligands in methodology or
total synthesis projects.
Applicant must have
completed three full
years of graduate work
and be in good academic
standing. Limited to
the first 200 applicants
worldwide. Applicants
must be able to attend the
Bader Student Chemistry
Symposium September
7th in Darmstadt,
Germany, and give a short
presentation of their
graduate research.
India.
Called ‘Visiting Advanced
Joint Research (VAJRA)
Faculty Scheme’, it
will aim at bringing
the best global minds
to India with a view to
enhance global ranking
of Indian institutions.
The area of research to
be undertaken by visiting
faculty members under
the scheme would have
to be at the cutting edge
of science and technology
and also be of relevance to
India.
Announcing this
recently, the Science and
Technology Minister,
Dr Harsh Vardhan said
foreign faculty members
selected under the scheme
would reside in India up
S&T Ministry announces
new scheme to attract
foreign scientists
As part of an exercise
to promote ‘brain gain’
as against brain drain,
the Ministry of Science
and Technology is all
set to launch a new
scheme next month to get
distinguished scientists
from abroad to work in
to three months in a year
and would be provided a
lump sum amount of US
dollar 15,000 in the first
month of residence and
US 10,000 per month
after that.
They would have to be