1/11/11 - Intel Semifinalists

NCSSM has 7 semifinalists in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search! Our students are among 300 national Semifinalists who were chosen from 1,839 submissions from 497 schools – this is a huge accomplishment and represents a lot of hard work. Please congratulate these students and their teachers Jon Bennett, Myra Halpin, Bob Gotwals, and Amy Sheck. To see the complete list of winners by state go to http://www.societyforscience.org/document.doc?id=333 For more info on the Intel Science Talent search see the Press Release http://www.societyforscience.org/document.doc?id=332

NCSSM semifinalists:

Mia de los Reyes: Use of Spray Adhesives for the Manufacture of 3-D Capillary Origami Microstructures.

Alyssa Ferris: The Effect of Epigenetic Modifications on Active and Inactive Centromere. 

Suqi Huang: Determination of Activity Coefficients of Wood Smoke Tracer in Artificial and Ambient Organic Semi-Volatile Aerosols

Pranav Maddi: Using Blocking Peptides to Control and Analyze the Mechanical Properties of Single Fibrin Fibers

Ada Taylor: Computational and Experimental Analyses to Assess the Benefits of Optimizing Curvature in the Design of Polymer Solar Cells to Harvest Maximal Energy from Incident Light

Vipul Vachharajani: The RNA-Binding Protein HuR Binds and Stabilizes Pre-mRNA in vivo

Lisa Zheng: An Inhibitory Model for Neuronal Symmetry Breaking