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61st Annual STS (2001-2002)
Finalists

Alabama

 

Mobile

Oertli, Nicole Anne (Murphy High School) Full Bio
Atmospheric Gas Detection by Non-dispersive Infrared Analysis of Solar Radiation

Arizona

 

Scottsdale

Berens, Theresa Joan (Humanities and Sciences Institute) Full Bio
Fn14 Is Upregulated in Glioma Migration and Tumorigenesis

California

 

Alhambra

Dong, Timothy Allen (Alhambra High School) Full Bio
Rate Constants of the Oxidation of Substituted Phosphines with Singlet Oxygen

Colorado

 

Grand Junction

Patterson, Ryan Randall (Central High School) Full Bio
American Sign Language Translator

Connecticut

 

West Hartford

Licht, Jacob (William Hall High School) Full Bio
Rainbow Ramsey Theory: Rainbow Arithmetic Progressions and Anti-Ramsey Results

Guam

 

Mangilao

Balakrishnan, Jennifer Sayaka (Harvest Christian Academy) Full Bio
On Generators of Zero-dimensional Homogeneous Gorenstein Ideals

Illinois

 

Bloomington

Riehl, Emily Elizabeth (University High School) Full Bio
On the Properties of Tits Graphs

 

Chicago

Sterner, Beckett William (University of Chicago Laboratory School) Full Bio
Probability Distribution of the Density of Self-avoiding Walks

 

Evanston

Pelzer, Justin Raymond (Evanston Township High School) Full Bio
Influence of Water Jet Structure on Hydraulic Jump Profile

 

Naperville

Cai, Wenyi (Naperville Central High School) Full Bio
Deconvolution Modeling and Numerical Analysis of Highly Transient Gasoline Sprays by X-radiography

 

Yang, Kevin (Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy) Full Bio
Quantitative Model of Electrophoretic Mobility of Oligomeric B-DNA

Indiana

 

Bloomington

Kaganovich, Mark (Bloomington High School North) Full Bio
Reiterative Copying of RNA Sequences by a Viral RNA Polymerase

Louisiana

 

Baton Rouge

Srivastava, Siddharth (Baton Rouge Senior High School) Full Bio
Classification of Different Features in Landsat Multi-spectral Scanner Imagery Using Support Vector Machines

Maine

 

Orr's Island

Theberge, Ashleigh Brooks (Mount Ararat School) Full Bio
Effect of Roundup® on Free-living and Symbiotically Occurring Diazotrophs

Maryland

 

Bethesda

Venturelli, Ophelia Shalini (Walt Whitman High School) Full Bio
Protective Role of Estrogen in the Ocular Lens: Implications for Postmenopausal Cataract

 

Potomac

Alyono, Jennifer Christy (Montgomery Blair High School) Full Bio
Development of an Electrochemical Biosensor for Phospholipase C Based on Supported Hybrid Lipid Bilayer Membranes

 

Li, Jean (Montgomery Blair High School) Full Bio
Chemical Origins of Extraterrestrial Organic Macromolecules in Carbonaceous Chondritic Meteorites

 

Silver Spring

Burnim, Jacob Samuels (Montgomery Blair High School) Full Bio
On the Scaling of Electronic Charge-storing Memory Down to the Size of Molecules

Massachusetts

 

Cambridge

Sur, Samir (Roxbury Latin School) Full Bio
Influence of Auditory Stimuli on Tactile Perception: A New Perceptual Illusion

Minnesota

 

Rochester

Palmen, Brandon Michael (Mayo High School) Full Bio
Engineering Tropism of Edmonston B Measles Vaccine Virus to Target and Destroy Melanoma Cells

New Jersey

 

Berkeley Heights

Venkatachalam, Vivek (Governor Livingston High School) Full Bio
Analysis of the Omega Diagram for Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy and Type Ia Supernovae

 

Flemington

Venkatraman, Dheera (Hunterdon Central Regional High School) Full Bio
Effect of Air Currents on Electrostatic Discharge Distributions

New York

 

Armonk

Cheng, Jessie (Byram Hills High School) Full Bio
Comparison of Traditional and ASR-mediated Literacy

 

Bellmore

Wagner, Michael Jacob (John F. Kennedy High School) Full Bio
Characterization of New Auxin-resistant Mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana

 

Brooklyn

Ahmed, Tahir (Midwood High School at Brooklyn College) Full Bio
Molecular Modeling and the Identification of Functional Domains of a New Adhesive Molecule in Inflammatory Thrombosis

 

Leung, Albert W. (Stuyvesant High School) Full Bio
Model of Light-affected Coupling in Oscillators of the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus

 

Rozenblyum, Nikita (Stuyvesant High School) Full Bio
Nullhomotopic Knots in Real Projective Space

 

Cedarhurst

Bronner, Mordechai Joseph (Rambam Mesivta) Full Bio
Improving Adhesion at Polymeric Interfaces Containing Carbon Black

 

East Setauket

Li, Yang (Ward Melville High School) Full Bio
Discovery of a Unique Protective Epitope on Outer Surface Protein C of Lyme Disease Agent Borrelia burgdorferi: Implications for First OspC Peptide Vaccine

 

Floral Park

Parihar, Raminder Kaur (Bronx High School of Science) Full Bio
Glutamate Receptor Subtype 1 May Contribute to Toxicity in Dopaminergic Neurons

 

Great Neck

Farzan-Kashani, Raphael (Great Neck North High School) Full Bio
Identification of Tripartite Motif 9 as Novel Onconeural Antigen Implicated in the Pathogenesis of Paraneoplasia-associated Autoimmune Neurological Degeneration

 

Manhasset

Lii, Jonathan (Manhasset High School) Full Bio
Cross Cultural Doll Study of Young Ethnic Chinese Females in Taiwan and the United States

 

New Hyde Park

Kim, Angela Soeun (Great Neck South High School) Full Bio
HIV-1 gp120 Increases Ligand-dependent Transcriptional Activation of Estrogen Receptors

 

New York

Rapoport, Ezra Jacob (Horace Mann School) Full Bio
Pattern Detection in Quasi-periodic Waveforms: Application to Speech Compression

 

Plandome

Giovine, Allegra Elizabeth (Manhasset High School) Full Bio
Relational vs . Positional Female Social Behavior in Same-Sex and Mixed-Sex Competitive Academic Situations

 

Rego Park

Li, Suhan (Bronx High School of Science) Full Bio
Surface-induced Coherence in Atomic Fluorescence Decay Rates

 

Rockville Centre

Stahl, Jessica Randi (South Side High School) Full Bio
Development of a Movement Analysis Instrument and Its Application to Test the Effect of Different Music Styles on Freedom of Body Movement

Texas

 

Austin

Frieda, Kirsten Linnea (Westlake High School) Full Bio
Molecular Interactions During Collision Approach

 

Gao, Kevin Kuan (John B. Connally High School) Full Bio
Bactericidal Activity in vitro of Chihuahuan Desert Plants and a Synergistic Approach to Overcoming Broad-spectrum Antibiotic Resistance

Wisconsin

 

Glendale

Burrell, Marc Anthony (Nicolet High School) Full Bio
Phytoextraction of Lead from Contaminated Soils Using Triticum asetivum: Effects of Chelate Application Time and Soil Acidification

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