The 2024 International Conference of Young Scientists and GYA Annual General Meeting took place in Washington, DC. Webpage
“Transformative and Inclusive Science for a Sustainable Future”
The conference provided an opportunity to rethink how recent technological advances and current efforts toward diverse and inclusive science can create a sustainable future for all. Ensuring the prosperity and well-being of communities should be founded on transformative science and capable of addressing current and future complex challenges societies face.
GYA members had a tour of the National Mall. A wonderful opportunity to learn more history and connect with each other. Here is the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, engraved with the words: “Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.”
The Lincoln Memorial. "In this temple, as in the hearts of the people for whom he saved the Union, the memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever." Lincoln’s hands are “positioned in a manner that displayed his two leading qualities. One of the president's hands is clenched, representing his strength and determination to see the war through to a successful conclusion. The other hand is a more open, slightly more relaxed hand representing his compassionate, warm nature.”
Alison met new GYA members. Fun Man Fung is a chemistry education researcher from Singapore
We were invited to a gala dinner by the Embassy of France – thank you!
Incredible plenaries and discussions.
Taking my shoes for a run around the National Mall.