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59th Annual STS (1999–2000)
Finalists

Arkansas

 

Conway

Wang, Robert Y. (Conway High School) Full Bio
View Dependent Continuous Level of Detail by Multiresolution Analysis

California

 

Alhambra

Huynh, Nancy (Alhambra High School) Full Bio
Characterization of the Immunoregulatory Effects of TGF-beta: Novel Therapeutic Implications for SLE

 

Palos Verdes Estates

Williams, Elizabeth Keiko (Palos Verdes Peninsula High School) Full Bio
Visual Search: A Novel Psychophysics for Preattentive Vision

 

San Ramon

Biswal, Dilip Bobby (Monte Vista High School) Full Bio
Effects of Telomerase Inhibition on the Senescence Rate in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

 

Whittier

Cherng, Bob Wen-Chieh (Troy High School) Full Bio
Gas Phase Formation of Solid Ammonium Halides: A Computational Study

District of Columbia

 

Washington

Kelly, Patrick Laughlin (Sidwell Friends School) Full Bio
Color Magnitude Relation in Hickson Compact Group 62

Florida

 

Hollywood

Zusman, Benjamin David (Pine Crest School) Full Bio
Elevated Gene Expression from Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus (rAAV) Vectors in Human Airway Epithelial Cells Using a Novel CMV/BETA Actin Hybrid Promoter

 

Okeechobee

Wiersma, Helen Irene (Okeechobee High School) Full Bio
Control of Tropical Soda Apple (Solanum viarum Dunal) by Application of Erwinia caratovora in Combination with Reduced Levels of Herbicides

Hawaii

 

Honolulu

Wang, Lizhou Lisa (Iolani School) Full Bio
Grafting of Polymers Onto Gold by Surface-Initiated Polymerization: A Novel Approach in Sensor Technology

Iowa

 

Des Moines

Zhang, Feng (Theodore Roosevelt High School) Full Bio
Genetic Functional Analysis of the Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus GAG Gene Reveals an Inhibitory Element that Can be Masked to Control Retroviral Assembly

Kentucky

 

Louisville

Reece, Matthew Burton (Dupont Manual Magnet High School) Full Bio
Proposal of a New Multiscale Wavelet Method for Faster Solution of Fluid Dynamics Problems

Maryland

 

Chevy Chase

Epstein, Elizabeth Michal (Montgomery Blair High School) Full Bio
Sensitivity of Gaussian Orbit Reduction to Time Spacing

 

Simon, Jonathan (Montgomery Blair High School) Full Bio
Optimization of Multi-level Subwavelength Diffractive Optical Elements Using a Wavelet Basis

 

Gaithersburg

Levy, Joshua Michael (Quince Orchard High School) Full Bio
mtCLIC: a p53 and Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha Regulated Mitochondrial Chloride Channel Involved in Apoptosis

Massachusetts

 

Cambridge

Leight, William Axel (Cambridge Rindge & Latin School) Full Bio
Laser Micromachining of Optical Devices in Glass

 

Lexington

Hemond, Brian David (Lexington High School) Full Bio
Electrical Potentials in Phaseolus, Phase II: The Streaming Potential Hypothesis

Montana

 

Missoula

Getz, Jayce Robert (Big Sky High School) Full Bio
Extension of a Theorem of Kiming and Olsson for the Partition Function

New York

 

Armonk

Kim, Jennifer Ahjin (Byram Hills High School) Full Bio
Expression of Opinions Activates Different Brain Areas than the Expression of Facts: An FMRI Study

 

Briarcliff Manor

Kahn, Adam Scott (Hackley School) Full Bio
Population Dynamics of Plasmid Based Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria

 

Brooklyn

Simuni, Eugene Michael (Midwood High School at Brooklyn College) Full Bio
Role of Interdomain Interactions in the Activation Mechanism of the G Proteins

 

St Jean, Emmanuelle Nathalie (Midwood High School at Brooklyn College) Full Bio
Evidence for a Lipoprotein Scavenger Receptor in the African Trypanosome

 

Deer Park

Kothari, Beeneet (Half Hollow Hills High School West) Full Bio
Creating Comprehensive Mathematical Models of HIV and CD4+ T Cell Dynamics to Analyze the Development of the Immunodeficiency Disease by Integrating Apoptosis, CD8+ T Cells, Viral Mutation, and Multidrug Chemotherapy and the Proposed Anti-Apo

 

Dix Hills

Cohn, Zachary Howard (Half Hollow Hills High School East) Full Bio
Reciprocity Laws Establishing the Quadratic Character of Remainder Classes Over Polynomials with Coefficients in a Prime Dimensional Field

 

Huntington Station

Hertz, Jonathan (Half Hollow Hills High School East) Full Bio
Factors Controlling Desorption and Assimilation Efficiencies of Sediment-Associated Contaminants in Deposit Feeding Polychaetes

 

Massapequa Park

Geiler, Kerry Ann (Massapequa High School) Full Bio
Ants Go Marching Two by Two: A Multivarite Analysis of the Physical and Chemical Communication of Formicidae Species

 

New York

Fink, Evan Matthew (Stuyvesant High School) Full Bio
Error-Resistant Codes For Transmission Over Media Subject To Conditional Noise

 

Neuhaus-Follini, Alexandra (Chapin School) Full Bio
"Neurotrophic" Factors May Potentiate Neurotoxicity

 

Pleasantville

Fong, Vincent Wai (Byram Hills High School) Full Bio
Zinc Enrichment of Common Crop Plants for Human Consumption

 

Port Washington

Hanft, Lucas Maccabee (Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School) Full Bio
Suburban vs.Urban Attitudes in Regard to Current Political and Sociological Issues as Measured by the Lost Letter Technique

 

Kovner, Kristin Elizabeth (Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School) Full Bio
A Study of Recent Developments in Theoretical and Observational Cosmology

 

Risca, Viviana Ioana (Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School) Full Bio
DNA-Based Steganography

 

Ridgewood

Corbo, Joel Christopher (Regis High School) Full Bio
Production of Temperature - Regulative Leather by Treatment with Polyethylene Glycol

 

Selkirk

Schmidt, Gordon B. (Bethlehem Central High School) Full Bio
Relationship Between Attachment Style and Distrust of Societal Groups

 

South Salem

Kyi, Chrisann (John Jay High School) Full Bio
Macrophage Uptake of BETAVLDL and its Possible Role in Atherosclerosis

North Carolina

 

Cary

Smoak, Christopher Ethan (William G. Enloe High School) Full Bio
Polygon Sorting using Array-based Hierarchical Binary Tree Data Structures

 

Cleveland

Williams, Jonathan Donald (West Rowan High School) Full Bio
Vortex Analysis of Airflow Over Flat Roofs with Inverted Airfoil Parapets

Pennsylvania

 

Bryn Mawr

Schwartz, Alexander Benjamin (Radnor High School) Full Bio
On Coset Partitions of Abelian Groups

Texas

 

Fort Worth

Agarwal, Priyanka (Texas Academy of Mathematics & Science) Full Bio
Apoptosis of Rat Retinal Ganglion Cells Involves Calcineurin Gene Induced Dephosphorylation of BAD

 

Plano

Block, Stefan Merrill (Plano Senior High School) Full Bio
Facing the Truth: Training Methods to Improve the Detection of Deception

Washington

 

Bellingham

Hickman, Steven Alexander (Sehome High School) Full Bio
Investigations of the Surface Memory Effect in Liquid Crystals, and Experiments to Control the Local Orientation of a Liquid Crystal Film

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