Levittown Student One Of Just 14 Named ‘Partner For The Future’

Division Avenue High School science research student Annie Tao was one of just 14 students across Long Island to be accepted into the Partners for the Future program at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Tao has been conducting research in understanding how genes turn on and off during a cycle period and what can be done to influence genes that may not be working properly.

Tao presented her findings at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and at the Long Island Science & Engineering Fair, where she received an honorable mention medal. At the end of the program, she received a gift of an autographed copy of “The Double Helix” by James Watson, the Nobel Prize winner for identification of the shape of DNA. She was awarded the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute medal during her junior year and will attend RPI in the fall.

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