[Editors] Popular Science Brilliant Ten awards

[Elizabeth Thomson]

Hello, Everyone!

For the last few years, Melinda Wenner of Popular Science has  
contacted the News Office to help find nominees for the magazine's  
Brilliant Ten awards.

I thought that you could help me compile a list of MIT nominees for  
2009. To that end, please take a peek at the criteria (below) for the  
award, and let me know who comes to mind (and why). I'll then compile  
a final list and get it off to Melinda.

Last year TWO MIT people were named to the list, and two others had  
MIT connections. (See http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/popsci-1014.html)

Thank you in advance for the help,

Elizabeth

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Elizabeth A. Thomson
Senior Media Relations Officer, Research News
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
News Office, Room 11-400
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA  02139-4307
617-258-5402 (ph); 617-258-8762 (fax)
<thomson at mit.edu>

<http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/www>
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Begin forwarded message:

> From: Melinda Wenner <brilliant.ten at gmail.com>
> Date: April 24, 2009 1:13:22 AM EDT
> To: thomson at mit.edu, jfhirsch at mit.edu
> Subject: Popular Science Brilliant Ten awards
>
> Dear Elizabeth and Jen,
>
> I hope you're well. I'm writing on behalf of Popular Science  
> magazine, where we are researching our annual Brilliant Ten awards.  
> Each year, the magazine picks young ten US-based scientists, doctors  
> or engineers that we feel are the most innovative, incisive,  
> creative researchers in their fields, and we profile them in a  
> special issue.
>
> We can't find them without your help. I'm hoping that you will aid  
> us by sharing this e-mail with all relevant press officers and  
> department heads at your institution. Then, we ask that you or one  
> of your colleagues compile a short list of no more than five  
> candidates and that you nominate them by completing the attached  
> form (one form per candidate) by May 5th.
>
> Here are our required criteria for the award:
> The nominee must be under 45 (preference given to younger candidates)
> The nominee must be relatively unknown, except to those in his or  
> her field (e.g. no MacArthur award winners or people who've been  
> profiled in other national magazines)
> The nominee must must have made a significant discovery or major  
> contribution to his or her field in the past two years.
> Here are last year's winners:
> http://www.popsci.com/category/tags/brilliant-10-class-2008
>
> Suggestion: we always seem to be short on the following types of  
> candidates, so if you can some that fit these criteria, they will  
> have an immediate advantage:
> -- candidates under 30
> -- mathematicians, animal and insect biologists, bioengineers and  
> chemists
> -- scientists who work for industry or have created start-up  
> businesses
>
> Also, please keep your submissions non-technical -- we will be  
> sifting through hundreds, and we're more likely to cut candidates  
> whose research descriptions we can't easily understand!
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions.
>
> Thank you!!!
>
> Warm regards,
> Melinda
>
> -- 
> Melinda Wenner
> Working on behalf of Popular Science Magazine
> http://www.melindawenner.com
>
>



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Elizabeth A. Thomson
Senior Media Relations Officer, Research News
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
News Office, Room 11-400
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA  02139-4307
617-258-5402 (ph); 617-258-8762 (fax)
<thomson at mit.edu>

<http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/www>
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