Youth against the grain

clipped from www.oregonlive.com Awards for Eugene math whiz keep adding up An 18-year-old math whiz from South Eugene High School who already has won top honors in prestigious contests has added to his prize collection at the 57th annual Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Dmitry Vaintrob was named as one of the top three students at the fair held last week in Albuquerque, N.M. He won a $50,000 scholarship for his project, "The String Topology BV Algebra, Hochschild Cohomology and the Goldman Bracket on Surfaces." The senior also received an expense-paid trip to the Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar during the Nobel Prize ceremonies in December. Receiving the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award with Vaintrob were Dayan Li, 17, of Greenbelt, Md., and Philip Vidal Streich, 16, of Platteville, Wis.