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From: amparo@MIT.EDU (Annemarie Amparo)
To: e-club@MIT.EDU
Subject: $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
Cc: msouth@MIT.EDU

To MIT's illustrious student inventors:

The Lemelson-MIT Prize Program will award a $30,000 prize to an MIT 
student who has displayed remarkable inventiveness while at MIT.  
Students eligible for the award are MIT seniors graduating in June and 
MIT graduate students.

CANDIDATES MUST BE NOMINATED BY AN MIT FACULTY MEMBER. Nomination forms 
and guidelines are being distributed to all MIT faculty tomorrow. If you 
would like to be nominated, we recommend you alert your faculty mentors 
of this opportunity.  Faculty may nominate more than one student.

To nominate a candidate, faculty are asked to submit five copies of the 
following: (1) nomination form; (2) two letters of recommendation from 
other MIT faculty; and when relevant, (3) one or two 8.5" x 11" page(s) 
of photos/diagrams of the candidate's work. 

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:  4PM, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1995.

The winner will be announced June 6th.

The Lemelson-MIT Student Prize is one part of the Lemelson-MIT Prize 
Program which includes the $500,000 national Lemelson-MIT Prize for 
Invention and Innovation; the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professorship 
(Currently held by economist Lester C. Thurow.); and the Lemelson 
Doctoral Fellowships supporting the study of invention, innovation 
and/or entrepreneurship.

For more information on the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize or its affiliated 
activities, please contact the Lemelson-MIT Prize Program, 3-3352 or 
send e-mail to <msouth@mit.edu>.