Student selected by NSF to study science overseas
Jason Walker
The National Science Foundation has selected School of Life Sciences´ graduate student Jason Walker to attend the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students (EAPSI). Walker, who studies with professor John Briggs, will spend approximately eight weeks in South Korea this summer in partnership with the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF). According to the National Science Foundation, the Pacific Summer Institutes were started to: provide graduate students in science and engineering first-hand research experience in Australia, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand or Taiwan; an introduction to the science and science policy infrastructure of the respective location; and orientation to the society, culture and language. The primary goals of EAPSI are to introduce students to East Asia and Pacific science and engineering in the context of a research laboratory, and to initiate personal relationships that will better enable them to collaborate with foreign counterparts in the future.
For more details:
Margaret Coulombe
(480) 727-8934
margaret.coulombe@asu.edu