Congratulations to all the Simons Fellows! Click on the abstracts below. |
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Peter Amendola Kings Park HS, Kings Park | THE DESIGN OF A NEAR-INFRARED OPTICAL TWEEZERS SETUP |
Drs.
John Noé & Harold Metcalf | |
| William
Aperance South Colonie Central HS, Albany | PHASE CHARACTERIZATION OF SILICON USING HIGH-RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY | Dr.
Herbert Herman Materials Science & Engineering | |
| Peter
Aronoff Smithtown HS, Smithtown | DETERMINATION OF MLC LEAF POSITIONS USING IMAGE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES | Dr.
Lawrence Reinstein Radiation Oncology Dept. | |
| Jason
Beiger Kings Park HS, Kings Park | THE SYNTHESIS OF AN ANTICANCER TAXOID-PORPHYRIN CONJUGATE | Dr.
Iwao Ojima Chemistry | |
| Shira
Billet Stella K. Abraham HS | DEVELOPMENT OF A VISCOMETER FOR ULTRA THIN LUBRICANTS | Dr.
Miriam Rafailovich Materials Science & Engineering | |
| Molly
Bright | CHARACTERIZING TURBID MEDIA USING MUELLER MATRIX IMAGES | Dr.
Harold Metcalf & John Noé Physics & Astronomy | |
| Mordechi
Bronner Rambam Mesivta HS, Lawrence | IMPROVING ADHESION AT POLYSTYRENE AND POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE INTERFACES CONTAINING FILLERS |
Dr. Miriam
Rafailovich
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| Adam
Cohen John F. Kennedy HS, Bellmore | PHASE IDENTIFICATION IN HEAT-TREATED SAMPLES OF CO-TIO2 THROUGH ELECTRON DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS | Dr.
Herbert Herman Materials Science and Engineering | |
| James
Cruise Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy HS, Plainview | CONDUCTIVE AND ANTICORRISVE EFFECTS OF POLYMER FILMS ON METAL SUBSTRATES | Dr.
Miriam Rafailovich Materials Science & Engineering | |
| Courtney
Drayer Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy HS, Plainview | A PETROGRAPHIC STUDY OF PERMINERALIZATION OF BONES AND PETRIFACTION OF WOOD WITH EMPHASIS ON URANIUM UPTAKE | Dr.
E. Troy Rasbury Dept. of Geosciences, & Dr. Catharine Forster Dept. of Anatomical Sciences | |
| Kristen
Goodrich West Islip HS, West Islip | THE INFLUENCE OF GROUNDWATER CONSTITUENTS ON INITIATION OF THE GROWTH OF AUREOCOCCUS ANOPHAGEFFERNS AND COMPETING PHYTOPLANKTON | Dr.
Gordon Taylor Marine Sciences Resaerch Center | |
| Rohit
Gupta South Side HS, Rockville Centre | BIREFRINGENCE OF STRESSED POLYSTYRENE MIXED WITH CLAY | Drs.
John Noé & Harold Metcalf Physics & Astronomy | |
| Zena
Hassan Paul D. Schreiber HS, Port Washington | INFLUENCE OF GROUNDWATER-BORNE PESTICIDES ON INITIATION OF THE BROWN TIDE | Dr.
Gordon Taylor Marine Sciences Research Center | |
| Catherine
Herchenroder Bishop Kearney HS, Brentwood | IDENTIFYING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON INCREASED BREAST CANCER INCIDENCE ON LONG ISLAND | Dr.
Kenneth McLeod Biomedical Engineering | |
| Cristina
Hung Commack High School, Commack | SYNTHESIS OF TAXOID-PORPHYRIN CONJUGATES UTILIZING SB-T-1107 / SYNTHESIS OF A NOVEL ANTI-MALARIAL BACCATIN-QUINOLYL ACID CONJUGATE | Dr.
Iwao Ojima Chemistry | |
| Elizabeth
Kane George W. Hewlett HS, Hewlett | Dr.
Paul Kemp Marine Sciences Research Center | ||
| Travis
Kats West Islip HS, West Islip | THE USE OF CAFFEINE AS A TRACER OF SEWAGE EFFLUENT IN THE GREAT SOUTH BAY. | Dr.
Josephine Aller Marine Sciences Research Center | |
| Errol
Kats West Islip HS, West Islip | THE ABSORPTION OF CARBON-13 LABELED DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER BY THE ZEBRA MUSSEL DREISSENA POLYMORPHA | Dr.
Josephine Aller Marine Sciences Research Center | |
| Kathryn
Maher Massapequa HS, Massapequa | TGF-b1 AND BASEMENT MEMBRANE COMPONENTS REGULATE THE BEHAVIOR OF HUMAN TUMOR CELLS IN ENGINEERED HUMAN SKIN-LIKE CULTURES | Dr.
Jonathan Garlick Oral Biology & Pathology Dept. | |
| Melissa
Malkush Shoreham-Wading River HS, Shoreham | AN INVESTIGATION OF METABOLIC CAPACITY IN MOVEMENT-RELATED BRAIN REGIONS FOLLOWING 21 DAYS OF EXERCISE. | Dr.
Brenda Anderson Psychology | |
| Lisa
Marx Jericho HS, Jericho | MAKING GIANT MAGNETORESISTANT DEVICES USING NANO-PATTERNING METHODS | Dr.
Miriam Rafailovich Department of Material Science and Engineering | |
| Mathhew
Mifsud Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy HS, Plainview | THE USE OF DOUBLE STRANDED SIRNA FRAGMENTS TO MEDIATE RNA INTERFERENCE WITHIN MAMMALIAN CELL CULTURES | Dr.
Michael Frohman Pharmacology | |
| Nicolas
Paramo Msgr. McClancy Memorial HS, East Elmhurst | HYPERBOLIC DISCOUNTING OF DELAYED REWARDS: EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTS OF CONSTANT CONSUMPTION RATE | Dr.
Howard Rachlin Psychology | |
| Marco
Persico Iona Preparatory School, Mamaroneck | PHASE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE OXIDE CERAMIC YTTRIUM IRON OXIDE | Dr.
Pelagia-Irene Gouma Materials Science & Engineering | |
| Kathryn
Rhindress New Hyde Park Memorial HS, New Hyde Park | MASSES OF NEUTRON STARS AND BLACK HOLES IN X-RAY BINARIES | Dr.
Madappa Prakash Physics | |
| Hannah
Yun Sanford H. Calhoun HS, Merrick | LOCALIZATION OF MAGUK PROTEINS IN XENOPUS DEVELOPMENT | Dr.
Bernadette Holdener Biochemistry | |
| Ali
Zarrabi Northport HS, Northport | AN IN VITRO STUDY OF THE INHIBITORS OF MEMBRANE-BOUND POLYMORPHONUCLEAR NEUTROPHIL ELASTASE IN PREVENTING METASTASIS | Dr.
Sanford Simon Biochemistry |
2001 Simons Students in the News: Shira Billet shares top team prize of $100,000 in Siemens Westinghouse Science & Technology Competition. Peter Amendola, Jason Beiger, Molly Bright, Mordechai Bronner, Courtney Drayer, Kristen Goodrich, Christina Hung, Kathryn Rhindress & Ali Zarrabi are semifinalists in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search Competition. Mordechai Bronner was also named a finalist in the Intel competition: read the Intel announcement.
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