Intel Science Talent Search 2005 Finalists

Arizona

Flagstaff

Cahill, James Andrew (Flagstaff High School)
Assessment of Equinoctial and Cross Quarter Alignments of Anasazi Origin in the Lomaki Pueblo of the Wupatki National Monument

California

Carmel

Hess, Amber Irish (Robert Louis Stevenson School)
Digitally-Enhanced Thin-Layer Chromatography: An Inexpensive, New Technique for Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis

Cupertino

Kim, June-Ho (Monta Vista High School)
An Investigation into Multiple Sclerosis: Antibodies to CD44 and ALPHA 4 BETA 1 Differentially Affect Myelin-specific T Cell Responses

Encinitas

Goldin, Aaron Sargent (San Dieguito High School Academy)
Autonomous Gyroscopic Ocean-Wave-powered Generator: Invention of a New Energy Conversion Technology

Sacramento

Harris, Kelley (C. K. McClatchy High School)
Comparative Structural and Functional Characterization of a New Z-DNA-dependent Protein Kinase

Florida

Fort Myers

Langberg, Sarah Rose (Canterbury School)
Morphology and Geochemistry of the Southern Juan de Fuca Ridge: Evidence for Off-Axis Volcanism

Miami

Kovac, Justin Alexander (Montgomery Blair High School)
The Effects of Warm Core Rings on Hurricane Intensification in the Gulf of Mexico

Ying, David Qianli (Coral Reef Senior High School)
Meristerm-Tip Culture Boosts Yield of an Important Sweet Potato Cultivar, 'Picadita'

Pembroke Pines

Jotwani, Pooja Sunil (Charles W. Flanagan High School)
The Effects of a Quark Matter Core on Neutron Star Cooling

Georgia

Duluth

Chen, Sisi Monica (Northview High School)
Expressing Integers Using the Least Number of 1's

Illinois

Bloomington

Gulati, Abhi (Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy)
Coloring Finite Abelian Groups to Avoid Monochromatic Solutions to a Given Equation

Chicago

DeVience, Stephen Jacob (Notre Dame High School for Boys)
The Photoelectric Effect Spectrophotometer

Highland Park

Credo, Timothy Frank (Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy)
Picosecond Time-of-Flight Measurement for Colliders Using Cherenkov Light

Wheaton

Haas, Lyra Creamer (Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy)
Using Textiles to Date Sites in the Norte Chico, Peru

Maryland

Baltimore

Harrison, Ryan Marques (Baltimore Polytechnic Institute)
A Novel Approach to Modeling pH-sensitive Regions Within Proteins

Olney

Fraeman, Abigail Ann (Montgomery Blair High School)
Modeling the Distribution of Comets Around the Star IRC +10216

Rockville

Geng, Sherri Yifan (Montgomery Blair High School)
Automated Seizure Detection Using Statistical Analysis of EEG Time-Domain Signals

Silver Spring

Forbes, Michael Andrew (Montgomery Blair High School)
Capacitated Vehicle Routing and the k -Delivery n -Traveling Salesman Problem

Massachusetts

Brookline

Tsao, Albert (Brookline High School)
Optimal Properties of Silica Nanofiber Loops

Michigan

Livonia

Bhagwat, Samuel Mohun (Winston Churchill High School)
Classification of Determinantal Sequences

Minnesota

Falcon Heights

Barany, Michael Jeremy (Roseville Area High School)
Ring Around the Nitrogen: A Synthetic Pathway to a Class of Protecting Groups for Organic Synthesis

New Mexico

Albuquerque

Cordwell, Robert Thomas (Manzano High School)
Some Results on Inclusive and Exclusive Partitions of Complete Graphs

New York

Bedford

Kramer, Stephen Curt (Byram Hills High School)
Comparison of the Effect of Animal-Assisted Therapy, Human Interaction, and AIBO-Assisted Therapy on Long-Term Care Dementia Residents

Bronx

Bauer, David Lawrence Vigliarolo (Hunter College High School)
Covalent Assembly of a Nanodot-based Neurotoxin Biosensor

Brooklyn

Pikovskaya, Olga (Midwood High School)
Structural Studies of Metabolite-sensing Messenger RNA

Coram

Huang, Shan Yuan (Longwood High School)
Charged Particle Production in High Energy Nuclear Collisions

Cortlandt Manor

Becker, Justin Scott (Hendrick Hudson High School)
Hyperhomocysteinemia, A Cardiac Metabolic Disease: Role of Nitric Oxide and the p22 phox Subunit of NADPH Oxidase

East Setauket

Wadhwa, Neal (Ward Melville High School)
On Super Calabi-Yau Manifolds

Fairport

Brewington, Bruce X. (Fairport High School)
3-D Characterization of Deuterium Ice-Layer Imperfections in Cryogenic Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets

Flushing

Lei, Yingqiuqi (Robert F. Kennedy Community High School)
Mining the Past: Geochemical Analyses of Fossil Teeth and Sediment Illuminate Ancient Environments

Great Neck

Chiang, Stanley Shang (John L. Miller-Great Neck North High School)
A Step Closer to the Quantum Computer: Fabrication of Novel Superconducting Josephson Junctions to Couple Multiple Flux States of a Quantum Bit

Massapequa

Geringer, Karen Lynn (Plainedge High School)
The Dynamics of Demographic Differences in the Perceptions of Terrorism Prevention

New York

Pan, Ling (The Brearley School)
Identification and Characterization of Six New Alternatively Spliced Variants from the Human Mu Opioid Receptor Gene, Oprm

Roslyn Heights

Mehta, Sagar Viplov (The Wheatley School)
Optimizing the Properties of Hyaluronic Acid (HA) Hydrogel Scaffolds for Wound Healing and Tissue Engineering

Sag Harbor

Bateman, Ailish Elizabeth (Pierson High School)
Discovery and Structure Elucidation of Scoriosin, a Novel Antibiotic Compound Derived from the Sooty Mold Scorias spongiosa

Ohio

Columbus

Fan, Joline Marie (Upper Arlington High School)
Acoustic Excitation for Enhancing Interfacial Dynamics of Mesobubbles

Texas

Plano

Haken, Ian Robert (Texas Academy of Mathematics & Science)
Development of Frequency Scaling Factors for DFT Functionals in Combination with the Correlation Consistent Basis Sets

Yang, Jimmy Chen (Plano Senior High School)
Improving Cancer Treatment Through Telomerase Inhibition

Washington

Bellingham

Plank, Karl James (Squalicum High School)
Toward Self-Assembling Nanocircuitry Using Liquid Crystal Solvents

Wisconsin

Madison

Loh, Po-Ling (James Madison Memorial High School)
Closure Properties of D 2p in Finite Groups