Intel Science Talent Search 2003 Finalists

California

Fullerton

Pawlowski, Peter Michal (Troy High School)
Structure and Stability of Sulfur Trioxide-Ammonia Clusters with Water: Implications on Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols

Pasadena

Rengarajan, Michelle (Westridge School)
Induction of Drosophila melanogaster Immune Response by the Parasitic Nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora and Its Bacterial Symbiont, Photorhabdus luminescens

Connecticut

Cos Cob

Mittal, Alexander Chow (Greenwich High School)
Nanoconstruction with Self-assembling DNA-PNA Complexes

Old Lyme

Nyberg, Michael Herbert (Lyme-Old Lyme High School)
The Quantification of the Physical Properties Impacting the Effective Implementation of Acoustic Larvicide Systems

District of Columbia

Washington

Snell, Sabrina Curie (School Without Walls)
An Assessment of Linear and Accelerated Motion in Double Stars

Florida

Fort Myers

Rubin, Jamie Elyce (Canterbury School)
Characterization of the Secreted Aspartic Proteinases of Candida albicans Using a Novel Combinatorial Technique

Miami Lakes

Lemus, Bryan A. (Dr. Michael M. Krop High School)
A Transgenic Screening Approach to the Development of Arabidopsis Mutants Deficient in the Synthesis of Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase Kinase

Niceville

Mohammed, Ibraheem Maqsood (Niceville High School)
Prevention of Biofilm Formation on Intravascular and Urinary Catheters: Development of Novel and Cost-effective Antibacterial Coatings

Tampa

Kotha, Anupama (C. Leon King High School)
A Novel Stat3 Inhibitor: Resveratrol, a Phytoalexin in Grapes

Titusville

Patel, Anant Ramesh (Astronaut High School)
Neuronal Expression of CD22

Hawaii

Pukalani

Jachowski, Matthew Douglas Apau (Maui High School)
On Initial Orbit Determination Accuracy

Maryland

Germantown

Preygel, Anatoly (Montgomery Blair High School)
Computation of Quandle Cocycle Knot Invariants

Massachusetts

Lexington

Byrnes, Steven J.F. (The Roxbury Latin School)
Poset-Game Periodicity

Michigan

Livonia

Street, Ethan James (Winston Churchill High School)
Continued Fractions of Quadratic Laurent Series

Minnesota

Golden Valley

Schmidgall, Emma Rose (Robbinsdale Cooper High School)
Inferring Surface Lattice Structure from Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Measurements of the High-temperature Superconductor Bi 2 Sr 2 Ca 2 CuO 8+Gamma

New Mexico

Los Alamos

Sinha, Naveen Neil (Los Alamos High School)
Bubble-based Resonance-Doppler Technique of Liquid Characterization

New York

Armonk

Yee, Alison Kimberly (Byram Hills High School)
Apoptosis of Protozoan Oyster Pathogen ( Perkinsus marinus ) in vivo and in vitro

Bayside

Narendra, Varun Kumar (Stuyvesant High School)
Mathematical Model of Enzyme Replacement Therapy in Type 1 Gaucher Disease

Bedford

Kroll, Matthew Jay (Byram Hills High School)
Size as a Factor in the Development of the Deer Tick, Ixodes scapularis

Brooklyn

Gekker, Anna (Brooklyn Technical High School)
The Effect of Psychosocial Factors on Recovery Time and Level of Health Improvement Among Patients Suffering from Physical and/or Mental Disability in a Subacute Rehabilitation Setting

Lewis, Joel Brewster (Stuyvesant High School)
Analysis of a Vector Game

Commack

Imber, Brandon Stuart (Commack High School)
The "Blackberry" Cluster: Thermodynamic Equilibrium and Potential Medical Applications of Giant Nanoscale Inorganic Molecules in Solution

Deansboro

Tewksbury, Carolyn Morgan (Clinton High School)
Collapse of the Pasom-mana Tessera Region, Venus: Implications for the Evolutionof Crustal Plateaus

Dix Hills

Choi, Hyeyeon (Half Hollow Hills High School East)
The Effect of Supercritical Fluids on Polymer Thin Films

Forest Hills

Zhang, Yi-Chen (The Bronx High School of Science)
Sub-lethal Exposure of German Cockroaches to Pesticides Contributes to Increased Expressionof Bla g 2, a Cockroach Allergen Associated with Inner City Asthma

Inwood

Vaughn, Casey Ann (Lawrence High School)
Deaf, Not Dumb: Dispelling the Myth of the Apparent Mathematics Deficit Among Deaf Students

New Hyde Park

Wissner-Gross, Zachary Daniel (Great Neck South High School)
Discovery of Low-current Second-spike Winners in Models of Neuron Pairs

Rochester

Rounds, Phoebe Robeson (Irondequoit High School)
Multiple-tripler Broad-bandwidth Frequency Conversion for Laser Fusion

Rockville Centre

Fleischer, Hilary Caren (South Side High School)
Optical Analysis of a Flowing Soap Film

Kardon, Alex (South Side High School)
Do Pay Raises Affect Measured Performance and Inferred Motivation in Professional Baseball Players?

Rye Brook

Licitra, Jeffrey Lawrence (Blind Brook High School)
Hemlock Decline Affects the Inoculum Potential of Red Oak ( Quercus rubra ) Seedlings to Below-ground Ectomycorrhizal Communities

Scarsdale

Gingold, Julian A. (New Rochelle High School)
Analyzing and Displaying Protein Motion: Variations in Interatomic Distancesand Crystallographic B-Factors

Staten Island

Levin, Alex (Stuyvesant High School)
A Secure and Efficient Shuffle-based Identification and Signature Scheme

Syosset

Malin, Adam Mikah (Syosset High School)
Ethos, Pathos, and Politics: Ramifications of a National Crisis

Wheatley Heights

Mackey, Lester Wayne (Half Hollow Hills High School West)
A Combinatorial Proof of Seymour's Conjecture for Regular Oriented Graphs with Almost Regular Outsets O' a and O" a

Woodbury

Ketover, Daniel Jacob (Syosset High School)
The Majorana Description of Spin Tunneling

North Carolina

Cary

Su, Edward Joseph (William G. Enloe High School)
Electron-Phonon Interactions in Carbon Nanotubes

Oklahoma

Stillwater

te Velde, Vera Louise (Oklahoma School of Science & Mathematics)
Effects of Diffuse X-ray Radiation in the Galactic Center on Detection of X-ray Binaries by the Chandra X-ray Observatory

Oregon

Portland

Li, Tianhui (Oregon Episcopal School)
Inertial-Electrostatic Confinement Fusion: Three-year Study

Texas

The Woodlands

Zeglin, Scott Bailey (Oak Ridge High School)
A Biological Treatment of Vibrio vulnificus in Ballast Water