2/4/13 - Science Fair Special Awards

Congratulations for these students who were given special awards in three differrent areas. (sponsors Amy Sheck and Myra Halpin)

Evolution - from the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NSF) www.nescent.org

    (3202) The Effect of Substrate Density on the Rate of Migration of NIH-3T3 Fibroblasts
        Student: Elizabeth Tsui

Water - from the NC-AWWA-WEA (www.ncsafewater.org). Cash award and qualifier for the Stockholm Junior Water Prize

  First  (3501) Chitosan-modified Cellulose as Adsorbent to Collect and Reuse Nitrate from Groundwater
        Student: Christie Jiang

Second   (3503) Seedling development and physiology in response to drought
        Students: Edward Zhao , Forrest Ashworth

   Third  (3502) Optimizing heavy metal ion removal from wastewater using peanut hull porous mortars
        Students: Matias Horst , Catherine Farmer , Evan Miles
 

I-SWEEEP - for sustainbility projects http://www.isweeep.org/ Trip to the international competition in Texas

  Outstanding - bid for I-SWEEEP
    (3404) Impact of Early Transition Metal-based Catalysts on the Performance of I-/I3- Redox Couples in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells.
        Students: Christopher Zhen , Kavirath Jain , Maxwell Tucker

  Outstanding - bid for I-SWEEEP
    (3405) A Novel Design of Electrode Surface Morphology to Improve Water Electrolysis Efficiency
        Student: Jaehyeong Lee

Honorable Mention: Christie Jiang