BWIS Accepting Applications for 2019 Scharff-Goldhaber Prize
February 19, 2019
By Amber Aponte
Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber
Brookhaven Women in Science (BWIS) is now accepting applications for the 2019 Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Prize.
Funded by Brookhaven Science Associates, the company that manages Brookhaven National Laboratory, the prize has been created to honor late physicist Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber for her outstanding contributions in the field of nuclear physics and also for her support of women in science.
Please apply using the online form. The application deadline is April 1, 2019. The award recipient will be announced in June and the award ceremony will take place later in the summer.
The $1,000 award, administered by BWIS, is granted to a female graduate student in physics who is recognized for her substantial promise and accomplishment. To be eligible, she must be an enrolled physics graduate student who is a candidate for a doctoral degree, but she should not have graduated with that degree before 2019. She must be performing her thesis research at Brookhaven National Lab and/or enrolled in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University.
The application website includes all the other requirements. Contact Marc-André Pleier at 631-344-4249 or pleier@bnl.gov for more information.
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