The Seeman Student Travel Awards

The Seeman Student Travel Awards support students to attend FNANO and DNA conferences. The awards are selective, with awardees chosen based on a combination of quality, novelty and importance of research, diversity of scientific areas, and connection to Nadrian C. Seeman’s vision broadly defined as “controlling matter with chemical information”.

Eligibility: We invite undergraduate, master’s, and PhD students from all backgrounds, disciplines, and countries to apply. The only requirement is to present a talk or poster at the conference.

Solicitation: Application to the Seeman Student Travel Awards at FNANO25 will be open in March 2025.

Past recipients were as follows:

DNA31: Joshua Petrack, UC Davis, USA; Kate Collins, Imperial College London, United Kingdom; Kohei Nishiyama, University of Mainz, Germany; Myoungseok Kim, UC Berkeley, USA; Salvador Buse, California Institute of Technology, USA; Zoë Derauf, University of Washington, USA

FNANO 2025: Emily Helm, Johns Hopkins University, USA; Kyounghwa Jeon, Seoul National University, South Korea; Lanshen Zhao, Arizona State University, USA; Syuan-Ku Hsiao, Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, Germany.

DNA30: Kanta Takagi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; Qi Yang, Rutgers University-Newark, USA; Sreelakshmi Meppat, University of Sydney, Australia; Taryn Imamura, Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Thong Diep, Arizona State University, USA; Tiernan Kennedy, University of Washington, USA; Yi-Xuan Lee, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.

FNANO 2024: Eason Cao, Yale University, USA; Iris Seitz, Aalto University, Finland; Julie Finkel, INSERM, France; Karol Woloszyn, New York University, USA; Karuna Skipper, University of Sydney, Australia; Liangxiao Chen, Arizona State University, USA; Tingting Zheng, Queen Mary University of London, UK.