Intel Science Talent Search 2002 Finalists

Alabama

Mobile

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

Arizona

Scottsdale

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

California

Alhambra

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

Colorado

Grand Junction

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

Connecticut

West Hartford

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

Guam

Mangilao

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

Illinois

Bloomington

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

Chicago

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

Evanston

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

Naperville

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

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

Indiana

Bloomington

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

Louisiana

Baton Rouge

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

Maine

Orr's Island

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

Maryland

Bethesda

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

Potomac

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

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

Silver Spring

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

Massachusetts

Cambridge

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

Minnesota

Rochester

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

New Jersey

Berkeley Heights

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

Flemington

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

New York

Armonk

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

Bellmore

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

Brooklyn

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

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

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

Cedarhurst

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

East Setauket

Li, Yang (Ward Melville High School)
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)
Glutamate Receptor Subtype 1 May Contribute to Toxicity in Dopaminergic Neurons

Great Neck

Farzan-Kashani, Raphael (Great Neck North High School)
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)
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)
HIV-1 gp120 Increases Ligand-dependent Transcriptional Activation of Estrogen Receptors

New York

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

Plandome

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

Rego Park

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

Rockville Centre

Stahl, Jessica Randi (South Side High School)
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)
Molecular Interactions During Collision Approach

Gao, Kevin Kuan (John B. Connally High School)
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)
Phytoextraction of Lead from Contaminated Soils Using Triticum asetivum: Effects of Chelate Application Time and Soil Acidification