Five Students Receive 2007 Battelle-Brookhaven Women in Science Awards

May 14, 2007

Five local female high school students who excel in science and/or mathematics were each awarded $1,000 at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory to encourage them to pursue careers in those fields. Battelle and Brookhaven Women in Science (BWIS) established the annual award in 1999. Battelle, an Ohio-based corporation, together with Stony Brook University, formed Brookhaven Science Associates to manage Brookhaven Lab, and BWIS is a not-for-profit group at the Laboratory whose aim is to promote the advancement of women in scientific and technical careers.

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BWIS members Patricia Fachini (far left), Patricia Williams (second from right) and Loralie Smart (far right), join Gregory Fess, Liaison for Battelle, Long Island Community Relations, in congratulating the award-winners (from left): Samantha Cotter, Longwood High School; Johana Peters-Uitto, Riverhead High School; Lyndsey Gress, Eastport-South Manor High School; and Erica Palma, William Floyd High School. Christy Clifton, the winning student from Shoreham-Wading River High School, was unavailable for the photo. (Click on the image to download a high-resolution version.)

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