Many students to take part in workshops and symposia during the summer, but Mallory Ladd got the chance to participate in a particularly notable event.
Ladd, a graduate research fellow and doctoral student the joint UT–Oak Ridge National Laboratory Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education, attended the sixty-fifth annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany.
The meeting, held June 28–July 3, brought together 650 budding scientists from around the world along with sixty-five Nobel laureates in chemistry, physics, and physiology and medicine.
“This meeting really changed the way I think about a lot of things,” said Ladd, who noted the only way for her to attend the event again is to return as a Nobel Prize winner. “Speaking with scientists from around the world, and from multiple generations, offered such a unique perspective I’m not sure I could have gained any other way and gave me newfound motivation to get into the lab and discover something new.”
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