The award will be presented at the 1998 Foresight Institute Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology , held on November 12-15 in Santa Clara, California. The winner will be selected by John Michelsen of Zyvex LLC, winner of the first 1996 Distinguished Student Award, with consultation from the Foresight Board of Directors. Please send in your nominations to the Foresight Institute by September 25th. Nominations should include name, educational institution, mailing address, telephone number, and email address of the nominee, as well as a paper, electronic, or web document describing the work for which the student is being nominated. If you are nominating someone else, please include your own contact information as well.
Email is strongly preferred for all entries.
The winner will be selected by October 9, to allow them to make arrangements to attend the 1998 Conference. The award, provided for the next three years through the generosity of computer industry entrepreneur Jim Von Ehr of Zyvex LLC., and Ravi Pandya of IECommerce Inc., is intended primarily to enable the winning student to attend Foresight Institute's Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology , which is held annually to bring together leaders in nanotechnology research. The keynote speaker will be Professor Steven Chu of Stanford University, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics. The Foresight Institute Distinguished Student Award institutionalizes the first grant made in 1996 by Foresight to John M. Michelsen, a University of California at Irvine chemistry student. More than one billion such nanorobots could fit inside a single drop of blood.