Honoring the next generation of American innovators, Intel Corporation
today announced the winners of the Intel Science Talent Search. Shivani
Sud, 17, of Durham, N.C., won the top award, a $100,000 scholarship from
the Intel Foundation. For her research project, Sud developed a model
that analyzed the specific "molecular
signatures” of tumors from patients with stage
II colon cancer. She then used this information to identify those at
higher risk for tumor recurrence and propose potentially effective drugs
for treatment.
Also achieving top placement in the competition were:
Second Place:
Graham Van Schaik, 17, of Columbia, S.C., received a
$75,000 scholarship for his 2-year project studying the effects of
pyrethroids, a common type of pesticide, on breast cancer and
nerve cell degeneration.
Third Place: Brian McCarthy, 18, of Hillsboro, Ore., received a $50,000
scholarship for developing new types of solar cells in order to
provide a less expensive, renewable form of energy.
Fourth Place: Katherine Banks, 17, of Brooklyn, N.Y., received a $25,000
scholarship for her geometric analysis of the number of lattice
points inside polygons with nine sides.
Fifth Place: Eric Delgado, 18, of Bayonne, N.J., received a $25,000
scholarship for discovering a new way to improve the efficacy of
antibiotics against multidrug-resistant bacteria.
Sixth Place: David Rosengarten, 18, of Great Neck, N.Y., received a
$25,000 scholarship for his physics research showing that
Einstein's General Relativity Theory, in principle, could modify
rotation curves in the absence of dark matter.
Seventh Place: Xiaomeng (Jessica) Zeng, 18, of Iowa City, Iowa, received a
$20,000 scholarship for her social sciences project in which she
found a positive relation between government and private funding
of public libraries - as one increases, so does the other.
Eighth Place: Philip Mocz, 18, of Mililani, Hawaii, received a $20,000
scholarship for designing and using a statistical algorithm to
discover hidden patterns of nearby stars.
Ninth Place: Alexis Mychajliw, 16, of Port Washington, N.Y., received a
$20,000 scholarship for her project studying the importance of
both wetlands and meadows as habitats for dragonflies and
damselflies.
Tenth Place: Evan Mirts, 18, of Jefferson City, Mo., received a $20,000
scholarship for using a scanning ion conductance microscope (SICM)
to observe the changes in size and shape of spinach chloroplasts
over a period of time without destroying the sample.
The remaining 30 finalists received $5,000 scholarships and a new laptop
featuring the Intel®
CoreTM2 Duo processor.
This year’s Intel Science Talent Search
finalists hailed from 19 states and represented 35 high schools
throughout the United States. Of the more than 1,600 high school seniors
who entered the 2008 Intel Science Talent Search, 300 were announced as
semifinalists in January. Of those, 40 were chosen as finalists and
invited to Washington, D.C., to compete for the top 10 awards.
"These forty students show what American youth
can do when they are encouraged to study math and science,”
said Intel Chairman Craig Barrett. "In this
presidential year, their stories should send a strong message that this
critical foundation for innovation must be supported.”
The Science Talent Search is America's oldest and most prestigious high
school science competition. During the past 67 years, Science Talent
Search alumni have received more than 100 of the world’s
most coveted science and math honors, including six Nobel Laureates,
three National Medal of Science winners, 10 MacArthur Foundation Fellows
and two Fields Medals.
Society for Science & the Public (formerly Science Service), a nonprofit
organization dedicated to public engagement in scientific research and
education, owns and has administered the Science Talent Search since its
inception in 1942.
"The Intel Science Talent Search 2008
finalists personify what drives American ingenuity,”
said Elizabeth Marincola, president, Society for Science & the Public. "Society
for Science & the Public is proud to join with Intel in congratulating
Shivani Sud and all of this year’s finalists.
We are inspired by their dedication to science, and are encouraged by
what the quality and depth of their work foretells for our continued
innovation and economic prosperity.”
Intel added sponsorship of the Science Talent Search to its extensive
Education Initiative portfolio in 1998 to promote math and science
education, a growing need in the United States. During the past 10
years, Intel has increased the total annual awards and scholarships from
$207,000 to $1.25 million. The company has also reinvigorated the
competition by adding awards for the schools and introducing technology
to the experience, including providing laptop computers to all 40
finalists.
Intel has long been committed to promoting math and science education.
In the past decade alone, Intel has invested $1 billion to improving
education around the world. Today, Intel invests more than $100 million
annually to promote education and technological literacy around the
world.
To learn more about Intel's commitment to education around the world,
visit www.intel.com/education.
To learn more about Society for Science & the Public, visit www.societyforscience.org.
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