3 Locals Named Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholars

OSSINING, NY — Twenty lower Hudson Valley high school students — including three from OHS — were named scholars Wednesday in the prestigious national Regeneron Science Talent Search.

The scholars, which were previously called semifinalists, were selected from 1,749 entrants from 527 high schools in 46 states and seven overseas high schools.

On Jan. 24, 40 of the 300 national scholars will be named finalists and receive a trip to Washington, DC, March 9-15, to compete for more than $1.8 million in awards provided by Regeneron.

While in the nation’s capital, the finalists will undergo a rigorous judging process, interact with leading scientists, display their research for the public at the National Geographic Society and meet with national leaders.

The winners will be announced at a black-tie gala award ceremony at the National Building Museum on March 14.

Here is the complete list of scholars, with their project names, from the lower Hudson Valley:

Armonk

Byram Hills High School

Bayley, Yasamin Sophia, 17

• Species-specific Responses of Coccolithophores’ Growth Rates and Calcification to Various Light Intensities: A Comparative Study of the Species Emiliania huxleyi and Coccolithus pelagicus

Chong, Isabelle, 17

• Using an Inertial Navigation System and a Laser Range Finder to Create a Novel Electronic Navigational Aid for the Blind

Saltzman, Audrey, 17

• Swift XRT and UVOT Investigation of Low-mass X-ray Binary 1RXS J180408.9-342058

Cross River

John Jay High School

Guo, DeeAnn, 17

• Lucid Dreaming: Its Electrophysiological Correlates and Induction Through Multiple Awakenings

Dobbs Ferry

Dobbs Ferry High School

Hord, Blake, 17

• High Mass Planet Spiral Shocks as a Source of Infrared Emission from Protoplanetary Disks

The Masters School

Li, Mingyu, 19

• Defluoridation Study of High Fluorine Drinking Water by Activated Alumina Oxide Modified by Ferric Sulfate

Lincolndale

Somers High School

Worsley, Mark Christopher, 17

• Bio-Inspired Airfoil Modifications and Their Effect on Noise and Sound Production of Wind Turbines

Mamaroneck

Mamaroneck High School

Katz, Andrew Absher, 18

• Implementation of Active and Passive Defenses on an Open Source, Raspberry Pi-based Home Automation Gateway/Internet of Things Device

Montrose

Hendrick Hudson High School

Chung, Jonathan H., 17

• Interaction of Circulating Gut Microbiota-generated Metabolites with the Function and Expression of SLC6A3, the Dopamine Transporter

Porras, Melanie C., 17

• Analyzing the Role of Chlorophyll a, b, and d in Oxygenic Photosynthesis

Ossining

Ossining High School

Khoo, Celine Xin Huan, 17

• Training Nonnative Speech Contrasts: An Examination of English Vowel Contrast Discrimination for Adolescent Native Spanish Speakers

Komosa, Reid Langford, 17

• Tributary Detection as the Basis for Intra-estuarial Juvenile American Eel Recruitment Disparities in the Hudson River

Scanteianu, Adriana Alexandra, 17

• Predicting Protein Turnover Using Genome-Scale Protein-to-mRNA Concentration Ratios

Pleasantville

Pleasantville High School

Malfa, Ana Claire, 17

• Inhibition of the Notch Signaling Pathway Prevents Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma Disease Progression

Scarsdale

Edgemont High School

Paskov, Alexander Spassimirov, 17

• New Frontiers in Toxicogenomics Based on Fused Regularization and Rank Restricted Machine Learning

Rozental, Stefano Freitas Andrade, 17

• Language Lateralization Using Electroencephalography

Wexler, Jocelyn Hallie, 17

• Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Versus Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy for the Resolution of Obesity-Related Comorbidities: A New Method of Comparison

Scarsdale High School

Li, Dexin, 17

• Decision-Making, Misperceptions, and Gender: Chess Players and How They Take Risks

Singer, Lauren Hallie, 17

• Transient Visual Evoked Potentials as a Novel Biomarker for Autism and Phelan-McDermid Syndrome

White Plains

White Plains High School

Zhu, Shelley, 17

• Assessing Schwann Cell Biology in vitro to Assess Its Potential for Brain Hemorrhage Cell Transplantation Therapy