Award
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The awards will enable four students to study or conduct research in Scotland, at Columbia University and at the University of Maryland.
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After returning to the U.S., Trang plans to apply for a bioethics fellowship before pursuing a medical degree.
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Merino will conduct research in Switzerland, where he hopes to contribute to the development of a blockchain-based electronic voting system.
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Peskov hopes to help computers and people work better together to translate languages.
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Auville plans to teach English and volunteer at a medical clinic in the Canary Islands in Spain.
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Over the last decade, UMD’s nominations yielded 33 scholarships—the most in the nation.
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Farquhar is a scientific leader in sulfur isotope geochemistry, with publications that address geochemical processes on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system.
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The awards recognized distinguished performance in: mentoring; scholarship, research, or creative activity; and public service.
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Researchers from the college received three awards: Startup of the Year, Overall Invention of the Year and Invention of the Year in Information Sciences.
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Kurt Auville, Louis-Henri Merino and Annie Trang received the award.
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Hajiaghayi is one of 168 winners chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants in the 95th competition for the award.
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In 2018, UMD researchers added more than 180 inventions to the ever-growing UMD intellectual property portfolio.
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