Science Slam a Highlight of 25th CS Conference
The 25th Annual Cottrell Scholar Conference was held July 10-12, 2019, at the Westin La Paloma Resort in Tucson, Ariz., with about 170 science educators, including 24 newly named Cottrell Scholars. It was the largest Cottrell Scholar Conference to date.
The second evening of the conference featured a trilateral Science Slam with six early career scientists – German, Russian and U.S. – passionately discussing their research before a live audience. The event, complete with rock music and stage lighting, was hosted by Fulbright Germany, RCSA and the Deutsch-Russisches Forum and was part of the Year of German-American Friendship. The competition was won by American Rui Wang, bioengineering, University of California San Diego, who studies regeneration by the freshwater cnidarian hydra under the supervision of Cottrell Scholar 2016 Eva-Maria Collins.
