Scholars Go Green with IBM
The top three winners of the IBM Innovation to be Greener Awards for NSHSS members were brought to the IBM Watson Research Center headquarters in New York to present their research to IBM scientists on August 8th. The competition challenged NSHSS members to present a solution to a local environmental problem in a clear and innovative way. The three most outstanding presentations were submitted by:
Tauseef Ahmed, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, Shrewsbury High School 2009
Reduction of Soot Particulate in Automobile Cabins through Electrostatic Polarization
Ryan Neff, Lincoln Park, New Jersey, Kinnelon
High School 2009
Applying Magneto-Hydrodynamic Physics to Water Purification in Potable and Industrial Applications
Xin-Yu Ruan, Marietta,
Georgia, George Walton High School 2009
Fighting the Drought
Ryan Neff, Xin-Yu Ruan, and Tauseef Ahmed with Dr. Fred Mintzer in the IBM Blue Gene Watson supercomputer lab
National Headquarters
1936 North Druid Hills Road
Atlanta, GA 30319
editor@nshss.org
NSHSS Participates in World Diversity Leadership Summit at the UN
NSHSS members at the World Diversity Leadership Conference in the United Nations in New York City
NSHSS members gathered at the United Nations in New York City
this summer in July to participate in the World Diversity Leadership Conference, among 400 senior global executives from over 150 of the world’s leading corporations.
-MORE-
