Congratulations to our Stony Brook mentors, once again. Thirty-two high school students who worked with Stony Brook faculty were named yesterday among the 300 semifinalists in the national 2011 Intel Science Talent Search (STS) competition. The mentors come from a range of departments and disciplines throughout Stony Brook, including anatomical sciences, anesthesiology, applied mathematics and statistics, biochemistry and cell biology, biomedical engineering, chemistry, ecology and evolution, materials science and engineering, mechanical engineering, medicine, pharmacological sciences, physics and astronomy, psychology, and the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS).
The semifinalists will each receive awards of $1,000; their schools will also receive $1,000 for each Intel semifinalist named. The Intel STS finalists will be announced on January 26 and will compete for additional awards in Washington, D.C., in March.
A number of the Intel STS semifinalists participated in summer research programs at Stony Brook, including the Garcia Center: Polymers at Engineered Interfaces-Research Scholar Program, and the Simons Summer Research Program, which this year had a record 16 semifinalists. Twenty-seven of the 33 semifinalists who worked with Stony Brook mentors are from New York (Long Island had 57 semifinalists); other semifinalists working at Stony Brook included students from California, Connecticut, Florida, and Virginia.
A listing of Intel awardees who worked at Stony Brook, with project titles/mentors, is available at www.stonybrook.edu/simons/intel and includes:
Nathan Akhavan, Mentor: Miriam Rafailovich, Materials Science and Engineering
Ishwarya Ananthabhotla, Mentor: Yu Zhou, Mechanical Engineering
Norman Cao, Mentor: Yu Zhou, Mechanical Engineering
Julie Chang, Mentors: Yixian Qin, Wei Lin, Jiqi Cheng, Biomedical Engineering
Kevin Chen, Mentor: J. Peter Gergen, Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Harry Chiang, Mentor: Roy Lacey, Chemistry
Joshua Cohen, Mentor: Josephine Aller, SoMAS
Kendra Cornejo, Mentor: Rebecca Grella (Ph.D. student) Gurevitch lab, Ecology and Evolution
Nevin Daniel, Mentor: Iwao Ojima, Chemistry
Jonathan Goldman, Mentor: Yuefan Deng, Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Dianna Hu, Mentor: Carlos Simmerling, Chemistry
John Kelly, Mentor: Roy Lacey, Chemistry
Abraham Killanin, Mentor: Miriam Rafailovich, Materials Science and Engineering
Jessica Lee, Mentor: Holly Colognato, Pharmacological Sciences
Bonnie Lei, Mentor: Liliana Davalos, Ecology and Evolution
Aditi Malhotra, Mentors: Luis Gruberg, Smadar Kort, Medicine/Cardiology
Brian Miranda, Mentor: Carlos Simmerling, Chemistry
Jonathan Nachman, Mentor: Miriam Rafailovich, Materials Science and Engineering
Hannarae Annie Nam, Mentors: John Noé, Harold Metcalf, Physics and Astronomy (Laser Teaching Center)
Wendi Oppenheim, Mentor: Bruce Brownawell, SoMAS
Sarah Pak, Mentor: Christian Luhmann, Psychology
Neil Pathak, Mentor: Iwao Ojima, Chemistry
Arpon Raksit, Mentors: Miriam Rafailovich, Dilip Gersappe, Materials Science and Engineering
Brian Ralph, Mentor: Alan Turner, Anatomical Sciences
Aaron Rosenthal, Mentor: Jacob McCartney (Ph.D. student) Kley lab, Anatomical Sciences
Ilana Scandariato, Mentor: Harriet Waters, Psychology
Karan Sikka, Mentor: Miriam Rafailovich, Materials Science and Engineering
Sarah Toledano, Mentor: James Dilger, Anesthesiology
Sharon Varghese, Mentor: Rebecca Grella (Ph.D. student) Gurevitch lab, Ecology and Evolution
Stephanie Wang, Mentors: Yixian Qin, Wei Lin, Jiqi Cheng, Biomedical Engineering
Pamela Wax, Mentor: J. Peter Gergen, Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Jenny Wu, Mentor: Iwao Ojima, Chemistry
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