Budapest, February 12 (MTI) – The international Abel Committee
held its session to nominate candidates for the 2007/2008 Abel Prize
for mathematics in Budapest, the Norwegian Embassy’s charge
d’affaires said on Tuesday.

Budapest, February 8 (MTI) – Szilveszter E. Vizi, president of
the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, is scheduled to meet with
Matsuura Koichiro, Director-General of UNESCO, for talks in Paris on
Monday.

Budapest, February 7 (MTI) – The space shuttle Atlantis,
scheduled to be launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, today with
five American and two German astronauts aboard, will carry a
Hungarian brain research instrument to the international space
station, national daily Nepszabadsag reported on Thursday.

Budapest, January 24 (MTI) – Hungary and India signed an
agreement on jointly-financed scientific co-operation, the president
of Hungary’s National Office for Research and Development (NKTH)
told MTI on Thursday.

Budapest, January 22 (MTI) – While Hungary and Spain are rivals
in a competition to host the headquarters of the European Union’s
spallation source ESS project, the two countries have agreed to
co-operate in certain fields, national daily Nepszabadsag reported
on Tuesday.

Budapest, January 16 (MTI) – Hungarian academics on Wednesday
held a session to mark the 100th birth anniversary of renowned
Hungarian-born American nuclear physicist Edward Teller, dubbed the
father of the hydrogen bomb, at Budapest’s Academy of Sciences MTA. Addressing the session, MTA president E. Sylvester Vizi called
Teller, who emigrated to the United States in the mid-1930s, someone
“who changed the course of the world and played an outstanding role
in eliminating bolshevism (starting from 1918) that could not be
compared to anybody else’s in the world.”

Budapest, January 2 (MTI) – Nearly 27,000 students from
disadvantaged backgrounds have received scholarships as part of the
government’s Utravalo (For the Road) scheme since 2005, an education
ministry official said in Budapest on Tuesday. In the 2007/2008 academic year, as many as 11,000 new
scholarships were granted to underprivileged students, along with
financial assistance to the teachers who have been working with
them. The total budget of this year’s programme was 2 billion
forints (about 8 million euros).

Budapest, December 11 (MTI) – Hungarian student Aron Szigetvari
won a Gold medal at the International Junior Science Olympics held
in Taipei on December 2-11, the student’s teacher told MTI on
Tuesday. It was the first time that a Hungarian secondary school student
fetched a gold at the junior Olympics organised for U16 contestants,
the biology-chemistry teacher Attila Villanyi said. Szigetvari, a student of the Budapest Fazekas Mihaly secondary
school, was member of the six-member Hungarian student team.    At the Games participants had to fill in a 25-question test in
biology, chemistry and physics and then give account of their
indepth knowledge of the subjects in additional rounds.     The Junior Science Olympics was established by Indonesia in 2004.

Budapest, December 7 (MTI) – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, the only
Hungarian to receive the Nobel Prize for scientific work actually
done in Hungary, was remembered in Szeged, S Hungary, on Friday,
marking the 70th anniversary of the awards ceremony.