Results of the Doctoral Students Competition
We are pleased to announce the results of our 2008 Doctoral Students Competition.  Out of 45 high-quality submissions, reviewers had the difficult task of selecting only three winners and three runners-up.  Each winner received a $1,000 cash prize and one year's free premium membership to www.MyNetResearch.com.  The three winners are:

Prachand Shrestha, Iowa State University, Bio-mimicry: Wood-Rot Fungal Saccharification of Cellulose for Bioethanol Production;

Hua Qin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Impacts of Rural-to-Urban Labor Migration on the Rural Environment in Chongqing, Southwest China; and

Jamie Patrice Joanou, Arizona State University, Street children and Cityscapes: The use of photovoice as a collaborative method with children living and working on the streets of Lima, Peru.

We also have three runners-up, each receiving a year's free Premium membership.  The three runners-up are:

Eric Mandelbaum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Architecture of Learning;

Rakesh Babu, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Impediments to Academic Outcomes of Blind Students in Web-Enhanced Instruction Environments; and

Lindsay Orr, University of Minnesota, Dietary Fat, Estrogens and the IGF Signaling Pathway, and Breast Cancer Risk.

We extend our congratulations and best wishes to all the doctoral students who submitted their high quality work. 

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An iPoD Nano will be awarded every month for the best Wiki Entry!
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