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Tuesday, November 17, 2009 • Events • by Eva Wisten • #

Young scientists to watch

Last night, the New York Academy of Sciences awarded eight extra-ordinary young scientists at the Academy’s annual Science & the City gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in Manhattan.

“Far out.” So began Blavatnik Awards winner Ben Oppenheimer his acceptance speech, which continued with a diction that alluded to Oppenheimer’s field of research: solar systems other than our own. Oppenheimer is an associate curator and professor with the department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History.

Among the other winners were Carmala Garzione of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at University of Rochester who studies the connection between mountains and climate and Eva Pastalkova at Rutgers University who studies internal brain activity, neural firing that is not prompted by external cues.

Read about all the winners and finalists here:

The Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists rewards significant accomplishments of scientists and engineers born in 1967 or later, and residing in New York, New Jersey, or Connecticut.