| |
| | Student wins Mexican prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | CU grad student Gerardo Chowell-Puente wins top Mexican youth prize |
 | | Mexican President Vicente Fox on Nov. 24 presented Mexico's most prestigious youth award, the Premio Nacional de Juventud (National Youth Prize), to Gerardo Chowell-Puente, a third-year Ph.D. candidate at Cornell, for his research in the mathematical modeling of communication in networks, which has provided new understanding of the way disease spreads through a population. |
 | | Gerardo Chowell-Puente, center, holding the plaque he received from Mexican President Vicente Fox, is flanked by Dr. Carlos Salazar Silva, left, president of the Universidad de Colima, and Cornell Professor Carlos Castillo-Chavez. |
| www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/03/12.4.03/Chowell-Puente.html (464 words) |
|