Congratulations to the 2006 Joshua E. Neimark Memorial Travel Assistance Endowment winners!

• Victoria Kramer, a Ph.D. candidate in plant physiology at The Pennsylvania State University, is receiving an award in the amount of $700. Her research presentation is entitled "Agricultural Biotechnology Risk/Benefit Reporting in National Newspapers".

• Jody Fromm Longo, a Ph.D. candidate in biochemistry and molecular biology at University of Southern California, is receiving an award in the amount of $700. Her research presentation is entitled "HER2, EGFR1, and EGFRvIII Differentially Regulate the TATA Binding Protein".

About Joshua E. Neimark: Dr. Joshua E. Neimark was born in March 1931 in Sea Bright, New Jersey. He demonstrated extraordinary intelligence, but also was prone to serious respiratory disease. He completed public school with distinction, and received an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a master's degree from the California Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. from MIT. He succumbed to illness in April, 1961, at the age of 30 and his doctoral dissertation was published posthumously. The award, established in his memory by his sister, Dr. Edith D. Neimark, is intended to assist young scientists in attaining a career in their chosen field, a goal that Joshua Neimark did not live to achieve.