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63rd Annual STS (2003-2004)
Finalists

California

 

Fresno

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

 

La Canada

Deutsch, Phillip Thomas (La Canada High School) Full Bio
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) Full Bio
Translatability of Gene Function Between Plant Species: From Arabidopsis thaliana to Nicotiana tabacum

Connecticut

 

New Milford

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

District of Columbia

 

Washington

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

Georgia

 

Athens

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

Indiana

 

Terre Haute

Chi, Ann (Terre Haute South Vigo High School) Full Bio
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) Full Bio
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) Full Bio
Microfluidic Device for Rapid Isolation of Pure Leukocyte Populations

 

Cumberland

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

 

Rockville

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

 

Silver Spring

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

Massachusetts

 

Newton

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

 

North Attleboro

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

Michigan

 

West Bloomfield

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

Minnesota

 

Plymouth

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

New York

 

Armonk

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

   

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

 

Baldwin

McMillan, Simeon Charles (Uniondale High School) Full Bio
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) Full Bio
Age Determination and Size Reconstruction of North Atlantic Codfish ( Gadus morhua )from Akurvik, NW Iceland

 

Carmel

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

 

Croton-on-Hudson

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

 

Dix Hills

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

   

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

 

East Setauket

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

 

Nanuet

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

 

Nesconset

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

 

New York

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

 

Niskayuna

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

 

Schenectady

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

 

Staten Island

Chauhan, Neha (Susan E. Wagner High School) Full Bio
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) Full Bio
A Novel Simulation Method for Protein Structure Prediction

 

Syosset

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

 

Yorktown Heights

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

Oregon

 

Aloha

Karnik, Ryna (Oregon Episcopal School) Full Bio
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) Full Bio
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) Full Bio
Repairing Damaged Heart by Cell Fusion and Transdifferentiation of Peripheral Blood Stem Cells

Vermont

 

Norwich

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

Virginia

 

Mechanicsville

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

 

Oakton

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

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