NepaChem Travel Award announced

Kathmandu Institute of Applied Sciences (KIAS) in collaboration with Nepal Polymer Institute announces NepaChem travel award for Nepali students presenting their research at KaSAM 2014 (4-10 September, 2014), Kathmandu, Nepal. Your application package should include followings in a single pdf file.

1. A short essay describing your research and why you need travel award (500 words maximum)
2. A letter from your advisor indicating you have not received any other financial help for KaSAM 2014.
3. Proof of symposia presentation.

The travel award will only the cover registration fee for the symposia. Winners will be notified  on 3rd September.

Email your application to info@kias.org.np by September 2 September 5, 2014

KIAS is a science based multidisiplinary research center in Nepal.

dance your PhD winners announced: explain your PhD research in dance

Sperm competition between brothers and female choice from Cedric Kai Wei Tan on Vimeo.

The "Dance Your PhD" contest 2013 winner is a video that described "sperm competition between brothers and female choice". In this video, Cedric Tan is trying to explain his PhD research about chicken mating process by dance. 

The contest is sponsored by Science magazine and AAAS. In this contest one has to explain his/her PhD research in the form of dance.

In chemistry category, Ambalika Khadria, a biochemistry Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, won the prize. Khadria demonstrated her experimental methods-a trick for revealing whether proteins are linked together in pairs. The dances literally used colored masks and fluorescent light to explain the research concept.

I guess it is not an easy job to explain the PhD research in science in a dance. Good job guys. Have fun watching these videos.

£250 prize for schools electrochemistry challenge

The RSC's Electrochemistry Group is inviting students to enter a competition to design a battery and win up to £250.

The competition asks students 'Imagine you had a power cut at home - what could you use to produce some power?' The group are looking for the most imaginative solution that uses materials found in the home and garden.

A separate set of prizes is available to the best entry of a cartoon or illustration that demonstrates an electrochemical principle. Again, the judges are looking for creativity and entrants are asked to 'think different!'

More information can be found on the RSC Electrochemistry Group website. The deadline for entries is 15 December 2012.

more here: http://www.rsc.org/Membership/Networking/InterestGroups/Electrochemistry/electrochemistry-challenges.asp