Please join us in congratulating Lyl Tomlinson from SUNY Stony Brook on winning the FameLab USA National Competition, co-sponsored by the NASA Astrobiology Program.

Lyl joins the winners of FameLab competitions from 23 other countries all over the world. He will represent the United States in the FameLab International Final on June 5th at the Cheltenham Science Festival in the UK.

Watch the archived webcast of the Final!

At six regional heats throughout the US over the past 18 months, nearly 100 early career scientists from across the US have participated in FameLab USA. They each bravely took the stage for three PowerPoint-free minutes each, using only their words and wits to impress their peers, the judges, and the public. The science they’ve covered is broad, reaching from color-blindness to asteroids, from nudibranchs to black holes.

On Saturday, April 5th, the top eleven converged in Washington, DC where they went head-to-head in one Final competition to determine who will be the US National FameLab champion. Alli Coffin from Washington State University was the audience favorite!