In December, laboratories of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research announced the winners of the competition for the scholarships in honour of the JINR founding fathers.

On 8 December, at a meeting of DLNP JINR Science and Technology Council, two researchers of the Experimental Department of Nuclear Spectroscopy and Radiochemistry (Sector 2 of Weak Interactions) were awarded DLNP JINR scholarships for young scientists.

• V. P. Dzhelepov Scholarship was given to Igor Zhitnikov.
  

  About Igor Zhitnikov’s scholarship

• B. M. Pontekorvo Scholarship was awarded to Nadezhda Rumyantseva.
  

  About Nadezhda Rumyantseva’s scholarship

On 12 December, the Council of Young Scientists and Specialists of VBLHEP JINR announced the results of the Laboratory scholarship competition.

A. M. Baldin Scholarship:

1. Ivan Volkov (primary) “Study of analysing power of proton-proton scattering at the Nuclotron internal target station”.
2. Ksenia Alishina (primary) “Production of hyperons, strange mesons and search for hypernuclei in interactions of carbon, argon and krypton beams in the BM@N Experiment”.
3. Veronika Bleko (encouraging) “Coherent radiation of relativistic charged particles from dielectric targets and its possible applications for diagnostics of modern accelerator beams”.

V. I. Veksler Scholarship:

1. Mikhail Shandov (primary) “The correction system of the main NICA Booster magnetic field”.
2. Dmitry Ponkin (primary) “Electronic engineering for the KRION-6T ion source”.
3. Ilya Donguzov (encouraging) “Magnetic measurements of superconducting quadrupole magnets for the NICA Collider”.

M. A. Markov Scholarship:

1. Nikita Lashmanov (primary) “Study of trigger detector characteristics and interaction trigger efficiency in the BM@N Experiment”.
2. Georgy Filatov (primary) “Development and construction of channels for the NICA applied research. Physical start-up of the SOChI Channel”.
3. Dmitry Zinchenko (encouraging) “Development and software implementation of the Vector Finder toolkit for the track reconstruction in the MPD Experiment”.

On 13 December, FLNP JINR announced the winners of the I. M. Frank Scholarship:

1. Bekhzodzhon Abdurakhimov in the section “Condensed matter physics”,
2. Nikita Fedorov and Pavel Nekhoroshkov in the section “Nuclear physics”,
3. Igor Zhironkin in the section “Development of basic facilities”,
4. Maria Petrova in the section “Scientific and methodological developments for neutron studies”.

Scholarships of JINR are awarded for one year to young scientists who have achieved success in their research fields in order to stimulate further scientific and scientific-methodological work.

Congratulations to the scholarship holders! We wish you new scientific achievements in the New Year!