UAF receives $11,000 award for high school science symposium
November 4, 2014
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The University of Alaska Fairbanks received an $11,000 award from the Junior Science and Humanities Symposia program to support the 30th Alaska Statewide High School Science Symposium. The Alaska event is one of 48 regional symposia where high school students complete original research in science, technology, engineering or mathematics and compete for scholarships and cash prizes.
UAF’s College of Natural Science and Mathematics will host the symposium on March 28-29, 2015. The $11,000 award will help fund the event, cash prizes and travel support for attending students.
The research arm of the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force sponsors the award to encourage high school students to consider education and career paths in the sciences. The Academy of Applied Science, a nonprofit dedicated to inventive thinking and research, administers the award.
As part of the symposium, students make oral and written presentations about their original research and can earn scholarships and other prizes at the regional level. Finalists can present their research at the National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium in Washington, D.C and compete for additional scholarships.
Abel Bult-Ito, the symposium’s director and a UAF neurobiology professor, said the symposium has served 1,519 high school students during its 30 years of operation and has awarded more than $1 million in cash awards, scholarships and travel funds to high school students.
“We are extremely excited for the continued support,” he said. “It gives students an opportunity to present their work, receive constructive expert feedback, and experience what a research career might entail.”
Students can learn how to participate at www.uaf.edu/cnsm/ashsss.
ADDITIONAL CONTACTS: Abel Bult-Ito, ASHSSS director and UAF professor of neurobiology in the Department of Biology and Wildlife, at 907-978-2169 or abultito@alaska.edu; Doris Cousens, JSHS director, Academy of Applied Science, cousens@jshs.org.
ON THE WEB: JSHS: www.jshs.org; ASHSSS: www.uaf.edu/cnsm/ashsss/
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