Regeneron Science Talent Search: 32 Westchester high schoolers earn honors
More than 10% of the top 300 scholars in the Regeneron Science Talent Search 2023 come from Lower Hudson Valley high schools. Students and their schools found out Tuesday that they were winners in the nation’s oldest science and math competition for high school seniors.
Ossining and Scarsdale high schools had the most semifinalists in the region, with six each.
Byram Hills High School had five winners and Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua had four.
Ossining, Scarsdale, Byram Hills and Chappaqua have among the region's most established science research programs, which enable students to do original research with the mentorship of professional scientists.
The 300 students, from schools around the U.S., Puerto Rico and four other countries, are awarded $2,000 each; schools are awarded $2,000 for each winner. The next round comes Jan. 24, when 40 are named Regeneron Science Talent Search finalists, who get the chance to compete for more than $1.8 million in awards during a March competition in Washington, D.C.
Past Science Talent Search recipients have gone on to earn Nobel Prizes, Fields Medals, MacArthur Fellowships and numerous other accolades.
Regeneron, a biotech company based in Tarrytown, has sponsored the Science Talent Search since 2017.
Here are the local winners, with the title of their research:
Harrison HS
Ariella Blackman: Developing a Model In-situ Resource Utilization System for Oxygen Sustaining Life Support and Launch Cost Reduction for Mars.
Lauren Davidson: The Effect of Copper Sulfate Concentration on Locomotor Ability and Lifespan of Alzheimer's Model Drosophila melanogaster.
Yorktown HS
Raka Bose: Using Artificial Intelligence for ICU Patient Triage.
Pelham Memorial HS
Katie Brandler: The First Report of Marine Debris as a Dispersal Vector for Native and Introduced Species in the Temperate Northwest Atlantic Ocean.
Emma Van Praagh: Investigating Connections Between Sensorimotor Impairment and Resting-State Functional MRI of the Spinal Cord in Multiple Sclerosis.
Leah Sherbansky: Exploring the Relationship of SSTR2 Immunohistochemical and Textural Features to Neuroendocrine Tumor Grade.
Byram Hills HS
Rohini Das: “Let’s Sleep On It”: Employing the Brain App to Measure the Impact of Sleep in Consolidating Prior Learning.
Remi Matza: Revealing the Retinal Vascular Changes Caused by Age-Related Macular Degeneration.
Samantha Milewicz: Selective Inhibition of Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 Attenuates Traumatic Brain Injury Mediated Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption in a Novel Dynamic in vitro Model.
Lindsay Miller: Here Comes the Sun: The Impact of Chronotype and Seasonal Mood Variation on Pupillary Light Response Across the Circadian Cycle.
Sam Schaevitz: Investigating the Use of Focused Ultrasound to Induce Blood-Brain Barrier Opening and Increase Drug Delivery Into a Murine Model of Primary High Grade Glioma Tumors.
Ossining HS
Samara Davis: Developing Environmental DNA Metabarcoding for the Detection of Elusive Vernal Pool-Breeding Amphibians.
Sarah Gardner: Co-evolving Across Time: Black Holes as Regulators of Their Host Galaxy Properties.
AriAnnah Goodwin: Forecasting Visual Aura Characteristics: Perceived Stress Does Not Predict Temporal Aura Features in Adolescents.
Sarah Jennings: Electron Transport Chain Acts as Potential Regulator of ER-Mitochondria Interactions.
Jesse Lynch: Aerobic Exercise Serves as an Effective and Immediate Treatment for Decreased Sound Tolerance in Adolescents.
Joseph Robertazzi: Migration and Magnetism: A Longitudinal Analysis Identifying the Relationship Between the South Atlantic Anomaly and Shifts in Migratory Bird Populations.
Scarsdale HS
Cindy DeDianous: Alpha Retinal Ganglion Cell Dysfunction Precedes Vascular Dysfunction in a Mouse Model of Type 1 Diabetes.
Ali El Moselhy: Framework for Optimal Budget Allocation of HIV Intervention Policies.
Sameer Kini: Associations Between Pathophysiological Traits and Symptom Development in V30M and V122I Transthyretin Amyloidosis.
Bryan Shi: A Mutagenesis Study of the Parkinson’s Protein α-Synuclein Reveals An Unexpected Link Between Membrane Association and Serine-129 Phosphorylation.
Jaden Tepper: Creating a Novel Device To Improve the Evacuation of Subdural Hematomas.
Nicole Zlotnikov: Asparagopsis taxiformis Reduces Methane Emissions and Alters Microbiome Composition in Organic Grazing Sheep.
Hackley School, Tarrytown
Vihaan Dheer: The Optimization of Flux Trajectories for the Adiabatic Controlled-Z Gate on Split-Tunable Transmons.
Fox Lane HS
Jacob Feldman: The Geometry and Reactivity of a Novel Zirconium-Centered Coordination Complex Supported by a bis-PN Ligand Framework.
Hastings HS
Luca Forrest: A Quantitative Regression and Volatility Analysis of the Relationship Between Economics and Political Stability.
Horace Greeley HS
Carly Googel: The Connection Between Stress and a Person’s Ability to Understand Their Own Mind and the Minds of Others.
Elvin Lo: An Empirical Evaluation of Zeroth-Order Optimization Methods on AI-Driven Molecule Optimization.
Julia Sun: Deregulated Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor (AhR) and Malignant Transformation.
Amy Yang: Image-Based Deep Learning on Air Quality Using A 9-Layer Residual Neural Network.
John Jay HS
Cami Sandell: Can People Intentionally Wake Up From Sleep?
Briarcliff Manor HS
Jason Starr: An Agent-Based Model of COVID-19 Social Determinants of Health for Equitable Intervention Implementation.
This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: Regeneron Science Talent Search high school semifinalists 2023
