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Search:  27 May 2000 - 5 August 2000 A total of 22 students were selected to participate in the 2000 session of the Research Training Program including 4 international students representing Borneo, Colombia, Germany, and Guyana. Schedule of Events  |  Poster  |  Program Summary Student Abstracts  |  Photo Gallery A total of 266 applications were received by the 2000 deadline of 1 February 2000. The Pre-screening Committee met Thursday, 3 February 2000. All application folders were reviewed, including incomplete folders. The committee nominated 178 semi-finalists (67%) for forwarding to Scientific Evaluators serving on the Scoring Committee The Scoring Committee was composed of fourteen (14) members from the NMNH scientific staff. There were seven review teams with two reviewers per team. Semi-finalists folders were divided randomly into seven review set of 25 or 26 folders per set. Review sets were distributed to Evaluators Friday, 4 February 2000. Each semi-finalist was scored by two different reviewers. Evaluators completed a 100 point score sheet for all application folders in their set. The top scoring applications were nominated as finalists. To equalize scoring, review sets were normalized. There are 57 finalists. The Final Selection Committee is composed of seven (7) members from the NMNH scientific community serving as Judges representing each of the seven natural history research departments (Anthropology, Botany, Entomology, Invertebrate Zoology, Geology/Mineral Sciences, Paleobiology, and Vertebrate Zoology). Each Judge will review and score all finalists. A 100 point score sheet will be used to rank applications. Scores will be normalized to equalize ranking. The Judges will nominate 20 student/mentor teams for participation in the 2000 summer session plus at least 6 alternates. IMPORTANT: This posting finalist status is not definitive. Due to regular adjustments in review sets, circumstances often dictate a change in status. No applicant should consider themselves completely eliminated from consideration for a position in the RTP until the final status is released and award notices are mailed - 8 March 2000. Following is the list of 2000 Research Training Program finalists: APPLICANT NAME (Last, first) Angarita, Hector Arias, Angela Arunachalam, Sudha Babiak, Jan Berger, Andrea Boyer, Sabrina Brandley, Matthew Chieke, Ogechi Cohen, Sahrye Cooper, Erin Des Marais, David Diep, Anh Dikow, Torsten Dillon, Jennifer Earring, Martin Engel, Elizabeth Farke, Andrew Ferro, Michael Fleming, Elizabeth Fuentes, Stephanie Helgen, Kristofer Hensley, Tabitha Hernandez, Amalia Hiatt, Vanessa Jackson, Matthew Jacobs, Sandra Johnson, Sarah Karimi, Fowzia Kern, Francisca Khan, Ziauddin Kun, Andras Lyon, Mandela Maldonado, Elisa Mann, Melanie Martin, Erik Melnicki, Matt Menendez, Raissa Miller, Emilie Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan O'Daniel, Elizabeth Pozo, Juan Pablo Pueschel, Eric Raithel, Jarod Raum, Jennifer Rubis, June Schennum, Chad Schreiner, Julie Schroeder, Stephanie Sherriffs, Margaret Smith, Justin Smith, Melody Sommers, Abigail Styles, Megan Wasserman, Abigail Wiegert, Joshua Williams, Shanna

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