UI WISE program awards travel grants

Posted December 22, 2003

IOWA CITY -- The University of Iowa Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program has announced 2003 fall semester award recipients of its Dr. Eunice Schuytema Beam Travel Grant Program.

The award winners, each of whom will receive $250 toward travel to a professional meeting to present scholarly work, are:

• Sara Binz of Dubuque, Iowa, a biochemistry doctoral student, who delivered an oral presentation, "Evidence for intersubunit regulatory interactions in Replication Protein A," at the Eukaryotic DNA Replication, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., Sept. 3-7, 2003.
• Ceyda Polatel of Turkey, a civil and environmental engineering doctoral student, who delivered an oral presentation, "Students of IAHR -- Iowa Chapter Activity Report," at the XXX IAHR Congress, Thessaloniki, Greece, Aug. 24-29, 2003.
• Ling Xu of Sichuan, China, a chemistry doctoral student, who delivered an oral presentation, "Synthesis, characterization, and application of grafted zirconium oxide on X-Alumina," at the 226th American Chemical Society National Meeting, New York City, N.Y., Sept. 7-11, 2003.

The WISE Travel Grants are awarded each fall and spring semester following the schedule and guidelines found on the WISE website. For further information about WISE, contact Chris Brus, director, at 319-355-3530 or at christine-brus@uiowa.edu.

The UI Foundation is acknowledged by the UI as a preferred channel for private contributions that benefit all areas of the university. For more information about the foundation, visit its web site at www.uiowafoundation.org.

Contact Information

Cassidy Titcomb
Associate Director of Devevlopment, Special University Initiatives
(319) 335-3305 or (800) 648-6973

Additional information about ways to support the Women in Science and Engineering program also is available on this site.