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2001 Finalists

California

 

Carmel

 

Lee, Hans Christiansen (The York School) Full Bio
Active Spin Control: Next Step after Anti-Lock Brakes

 

Oakland

 

Carroll, Gabriel Drew (Oakland Technical High School) Full Bio
Homology of Narrow Posets

 

Sacramento

 

Areen, Michael Richard (Mira Loma High School) Full Bio
Forced Unilateral Orientation Numbers in Almost-Complete Graphs

     

Craig, Nathaniel Jay (Mira Loma High School) Full Bio
On the Thermodynamics of Supercooled Glass-forming Polymeric Liquids

Connecticut

 

Orange

 

Higgins, Heather Charlotte (Academy Of Our Lady Of Mercy) Full Bio
Cerebral Perfusion as Determined by 3-D and First Pass Functional Computed Tomography

 

Westport

 

Lisanti, Mariangela (Staples High School) Full Bio
Conductance Quantization in Au Nanocontacts

Florida

 

Palm Bay

 

Arnade, Linda Jeanette (Palm Bay High School) Full Bio
Correlation Between C.pneumoniae and Nitric Oxide in Development of Atherosclerosis. Creation of new Clinical Diagnostic Scales and Mathematical Models

 

Tallahassee

 

Hasper, Michael Theprathan (Maclay High School) Full Bio
Violin Bridge: Will the Stradivarius Legend Continue?

Georgia

 

Atlanta

 

Sunderam, Aditya Vikram (Chamblee High School) Full Bio
Adaptive and Automated Personalization of Internet News

 

Roswell

 

Vasudeva, Rishi Sahai (Roswell High School) Full Bio
Improving the Mechanical Properties of Zein Film to Match the Performance of Petrochemical Diaper Polymers: Phase III

Indiana

 

Salem

 

Kessans, Sarah Adeline (Eastern High School) Full Bio
Herbicidal Effects of Tannic Acid Extracted from Quercus borealis Sawdust on the Germination of Weed and Crop Seeds in a Plot Study

Louisiana

 

Baton Rouge

 

Liu, Cambrian Yangshao (Baton Rouge Senior High School) Full Bio
Recognition of Brain Abnormalities in Magnetic Resonance Images by Neural Fourier Analysis

Maryland

 

Potomac

 

Dunn, Alan Mark (Montgomery Blair High School) Full Bio
Optimization of Advanced Encryption Standard Candidate Algorithms for the Macintosh G4

 

Rockville

 

Pastor, William Abraham (Montgomery Blair High School) Full Bio
Synthesis and Computer Modeling of BETA-Amyloid Fibrils Associated with Alzheimer's Disease

Massachusetts

 

Belmont

 

Chiu, Michael Zheng-Shee (Belmont High School) Full Bio
Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA)-G Dimerization: Structurally Unique Mechanism of Nk Cell Inhibition during Pregnancy

Minnesota

 

Eden Prairie

 

Mehrotra, Neil Ratna (Hopkins High School) Full Bio
Role of PRP5 in Intron Splicing

Missouri

 

Ballwin

 

Sabar, Abdur Rasheed (Parkway West High School) Full Bio
Integral Products of Laguerre Polynomials and their Discrete Analogues

New York

 

Amawalk

 

Henry, Eve Ariel (Byram Hills High School) Full Bio
Increasing Potential Health-Benefits of Certain Cruciferous Vegetables through Modifications of Growth Conditions

 

Armonk

 

Arfa, Meredith Ashley (Byram Hills High School) Full Bio
Object Enrichment on Social Interactions Among Captive Chimpanzees

     

Barna, Hayley Bay (Byram Hills High School) Full Bio
Liquid Crystal Alignment Degradation Induced by Photo-irradiation

 

Brooklyn

 

Chow, Jerry Moy (Stuyvesant High School) Full Bio
Measurement of Ground State Energy and Landau Levels of a GaAs Quantum Well and Magnetic Flux Quantum

     

Nguyen, Caroline Minh-Phuong (Stuyvesant High School) Full Bio
Anaylsis of a Two-Round Ehrenfeucht Game of Two Sequences

     

Paroder, Monika (Brooklyn Technical High School) Full Bio
Iodide Transporter (NIS): Protein with Widespread Medical Applications: Analysis of a Congenital Hypothyroidism-Causing NIS Mutation and Demonstration of Decreased NIS Expression in Gastric Cancer

 

Great Neck

 

Khalil, David Nejad (Great Neck North High School) Full Bio
Identification of the Multiple Human Brain Areas Associated with the Two Perceptions of Ambiguous Figures Using fMRI

     

Moussazadeh, Nelson (Great Neck North High School) Full Bio
Induction of Cardiomyocyte Differentiation Following Stimulation of Human Fetal Liver AC133 (+) Stem Cells in vitro

 

Hillcrest

 

Kempadoo, Kimberly Ann (Ramapo Senior High School) Full Bio
Behavioral Effects of Dopamine on Locomotor Performance in Carassius auratus

 

New York

 

Aronov, Dmitriy (Stuyvesant High School) Full Bio
Metric Space Analysis of Multi-Channel Spike Sequences

 

Roslyn

 

Waldman, Johanna Beth (Roslyn High School) Full Bio
Cheating to Make the Grade: An Analysis of Factors Affecting Academic Dishonesty

 

Rye Brook

 

Nambudiri, Vinod Easwaran (Blind Brook High School) Full Bio
Alteration of Sleep and Daytime Cognitive Performance in Adolescents as a Result of Nocturnal Extraocular Light Exposure

 

Setauket

 

Berman, Craig Joshua (Ward Melville High School) Full Bio
Characterization of Ultrasound in Osteoporotic-like Bone Tissue and its Clinical Application as a Non-Invasive Diagnostic System

Ohio

 

Cleveland

 

Lai, Ann (Hathaway Brown School) Full Bio
Development of a Micro-sensor System for Monitoring and Controlling SO2 Emissions

 

Radnor

 

Iverson, Aaron Louis (Buckeye Valley High School) Full Bio
Enhancing Soybean Resistance to the Mexican Bean Beetle

Oregon

 

Lake Oswego

 

Radecki, Melissa Ann (Oregon Episcopal School) Full Bio
Mechanical Stretch as a Regulator of Intraocular Pressure: Implications for Glaucoma

Pennsylvania

 

Chalfont

 

Crabtree, Christina Rose (Central Bucks High School West) Full Bio
Does Sexual Preference Modulate Biological Odors/Pheromones?

 

Pittsburgh

 

Young, Atalie Carina (Keystone Oaks High School) Full Bio
Effects of Carbon Dioxide on Brassica rapa

Texas

 

Sugar Land

 

Dewan, Ashvin Kumar (Hightower High School) Full Bio
Conducting Corrosion - Study of Solution Properties

 

Weatherford

 

Horch, Robert Adam (Texas Academy of Mathematics & Science) Full Bio
Nano-strength: Establishing Polymerized Montmorillonite Nanocomposites within Electrodeposited Metallic Thin Films

Virginia

 

Mc Lean

 

Madduri, Parimalram Achintya (Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology) Full Bio
Pressure Induced Transformations in Molecular Solids: N2O and CO2

 

Springfield

 

Novakovski, Vladimir Sergei (Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology) Full Bio
Optimal Hologram Design for Optoneural Computing

Wyoming

 

Laramie

 

Chiu, Jason Wah Lone (Laramie Senior High School) Full Bio
On the Hamiltonian Decomposition of Z_m x Z_n

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