Intel Science Talent Search 2004 Finalists

California

Fresno

Suri, Arjun Anand (Clovis West High School)
Modeling of Predicted Tyrosine Sulfation Sites in Seven-Transmembrane Receptors

La Canada

Deutsch, Phillip Thomas (La Canada High School)
A New Spin on the Haasnoot-Altona Equation: Determination of THETA by Variable Solvent 1 H and Variable Temperature 13 C and 1 H NMR

Redwood City

Nachbaur, Moriah Katherine (Crystal Springs Uplands School)
Translatability of Gene Function Between Plant Species: From Arabidopsis thaliana to Nicotiana tabacum

Connecticut

New Milford

Glukhovsky, Lisa Doreen (New Milford High School)
A Rapid, Accurate Method of Determining the Distance to Near-Earth Asteroids

District of Columbia

Washington

Munteanu, Andrei (Benjamin Banneker High School)
A Novel Algorithm for Computing the Minimum Distance Between Two Elliptical Orbits

Georgia

Athens

Alexeev, Boris (Cedar Shoals High School)
Minimal Deterministic Finite Automata (DFAs) for Testing Divisibility

Indiana

Terre Haute

Chi, Ann (Terre Haute South Vigo High School)
H 2 and C 2 H 4 Elimination Pathways in the Y + C 2 H 6 Reaction

Iowa

Burlington

Collier, Rachael Theresa (Mediapolis High School)
Comparative Bioassay of Bt Corn Pollen and Limestone Road Dust Environment Contaminantson Monarch Larvae Growth and Development

Maryland

Bethesda

Anahtar, Melis Nuray (Montgomery Blair High School)
Microfluidic Device for Rapid Isolation of Pure Leukocyte Populations

Cumberland

Hang, Qilei (Allegany High School)
Optimization of the Location for Two Drawpoint Holes in Conical Stockpiles

Rockville

Thakur, Gaurav Subhash (The Learning Community International)
Analysis of Generalized Factorial Functions

Silver Spring

Su, Gordon L. (Montgomery Blair High School)
The Effects of Economic Globalization on Income Inequality in Post-Mao China

Massachusetts

Newton

Levin, Andrei Joseph (Maimonides School)
Mouse Homologs of Human Retroposed Genes

North Attleboro

Hedberg, Herbert Mason (North Attleboro High School)
An Efficient, Functional Telomerase Activity Assay

Michigan

West Bloomfield

Chen, Yuyin (Cranbrook Kingswood School)
Removing All Edges from the Complete Graph and the Complete Bipartite Graph

Minnesota

Plymouth

Zhou, Ning (Wayzata High School)
Quantitative Trait Loci Modulating Corpus Callosum Size in Mouse Brain

New York

Armonk

Richelson, Silas Isaac (Byram Hills High School)
The Primal Catalanian Conjecture Generalized to Quadratic Fields

Wolfson, Jayne Frances (Byram Hills High School)
An Exposition of the Cognitive Development in Toddlers Using Pretend Play

Baldwin

McMillan, Simeon Charles (Uniondale High School)
Crossing the Divide: Using Acoustics and Geographic Location to Determine the Differences Between North and South American Frog and Toad Species

Brooklyn

Storm, Shaye Perry (Midwood High School)
Age Determination and Size Reconstruction of North Atlantic Codfish ( Gadus morhua )from Akurvik, NW Iceland

Carmel

Auster, Craig Louis (Carmel High School)
Uncovering the African American Experience in the Hudson Valley: The Guinea Community Archaeology Project

Croton-on-Hudson

Goldberg, Allyson Molly (Croton-Harmon High School)
The Effects of Manipulating Body Core Temperature on Performance and Naps in Humans

Dix Hills

Halperin, Bruce David (Half Hollow Hills High School East)
An Extension of the Dining Cryptographers Protocol to Multiparty, Simultaneous Sender-Recipient Anonymous Communication

Yen, Felicia Yuen-Lee (Half Hollow Hills High School East)
Molecular Analysis of Breast Cancer by cDNA Microarrays: Developing a Better Diagnosis and a Potential Cure

East Setauket

Reznik, Eduard (Ward Melville High School)
New Exact Solutions to Einstein's Equations

Nanuet

Heller, Elizabeth Rose (Nanuet High School)
An Evaluation of the 1868 El Nino

Nesconset

Michta, Maria Lynn (Sachem North High School)
Radio Detection of Meteors

New York

Harel, Matan (Stuyvesant High School)
Cell Motility Using Actin Polymerization Driven Protrusion with Electrostatic Interactions

Niskayuna

D'Ascoli, Jennifer Anne (Academy of the Holy Names)
Blueberry Pie: Friend or Foe?

Schenectady

Hartman, Katherine (Guilderland Central High School)
Multicolor Photometry of the RR Lyrae Star CQ Bootis

Staten Island

Chauhan, Neha (Susan E. Wagner High School)
Dietary Polyphenolic Compounds Inhibit the Fibrillization of Amyloid BETA-Protein: Structure-Activity Relationship and Preventive Implications for Alzheimer's Disease

Stony Brook

Wang, Kevin Yibo (Ward Melville High School)
A Novel Simulation Method for Protein Structure Prediction

Syosset

Choi, Daniel Chimin (Syosset High School)
DNA Microarray Analysis of Shewanella oneidensis Grown for Fuel Cell Use

Yorktown Heights

Rau-Murthy, Rohini Subhadra (Yorktown High School)
Implicit Math Cognition

Oregon

Aloha

Karnik, Ryna (Oregon Episcopal School)
A Non-Photo Lithographic Approach to the Construction of N-Type MOSFET Devices Using FIB Technology

Portland

Ha, Duy Minh (Ulysses S. Grant High School)
Selective Preservation of White Matter in Long-Term Estrogen Replacement Therapy: A Quantitative MRI Analysis Using a Novel Methodology

Texas

Sugar Land

Raj, Sean Dilip (Hightower High School)
Repairing Damaged Heart by Cell Fusion and Transdifferentiation of Peripheral Blood Stem Cells

Vermont

Norwich

Lubin, Amos Benjamin (Hanover High School)
Timelike Hypersurfaces in de Sitter Space

Virginia

Mechanicsville

Westrick, Linda Brown (Maggie L. Walker Governor's School)
Investigations of the Number Derivative

Oakton

Nettimi, Divya (Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology)
Connecting the Macro-Scale to the Nano-Scale: New Insights into the Kinetics of the Myosin-Actin Molecular Biomotor System