Together with our sponsors, Mars, Incorporated, and the National Science Foundation, ORAU is pleased to announce the call for nominations, as well as dates and deadline for the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting with Nobel Laureates from the field of Chemistry.

The meeting will be held June 25 through June 30, 2017. This note is to advise you of our expected timeline for nominations.
Selected students will have the opportunity to attend formal lectures and informal meetings with the Nobel Laureate scientists and peers from around the world. Information on past meetings is available at http://www.orau.org/lindau.
Institutions are encouraged to hold internal competitions to nominate a maximum of two students per university.
In 2017, the meetings will feature recipients of the Nobel Prize in the field of chemistry.  You may nominate students to attend the chemistry meeting who:
??       is U.S. citizen currently enrolled at a university as full-time graduate students;
??       has completed by June 2017 at least two academic years of graduate studies toward a doctoral degree in the discipline of chemistry or a related discipline, but not be planning a dissertation/thesis defense before December 31, 2017
We are especially interested in receiving nominations from a diverse group of students, including women, minorities and people with disabilities.
The selection process for the Lindau Meeting occurs over three phases. All nominations from the universities for the chemistry meeting must be submitted by email to lindau@orau.org before Friday, October 14, 2016 at 4:00 pm, Eastern Time.  Please be sure to save the PDF before emailing with the last name of the nominee in the file name.

If you have any questions or need further information, please contact Michael Ickowitz (michael.ickowitz@orau.org).