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Recent Student Successes
ISEF 2008 (
Sabrina
Prabakaran - Second Place in the category of Cellular and Molecular Biology;
the Ashtavadhani Vidwan Ambati Subbaraya Chetty (AVASC) Foundation Second Award of $500 U.S. Savings Bond; the Florida
Institute of Technology Scholarship Award of $12,500 per year for four years;
and States United for Biomedical Research (SUBR) First Award $2,500 for her
project on Programming of Adult
Hematopoietic Stem Cells to Differentiate into Retinal Pigment Epithelium Cells
Using RPE65 Gene: A Novel Mode of Cell Replacement Therapy for Tissue Specific
Repair
ISEF 2007 (
Sabrina Prabakaran -
United States Air Force
First Award of $3,000 for her project
on Differentiation of Neural Progenitor
Cells into Inner Ear Hair Cells:A Strategy for Treating Deafness
ISEF 2006 (
Justin A. Johns and Christine
E. Johns – the American Dental Association Foundation award for the best exhibit with application to dental
research with an Award of $1,000 for their project on Xylitol Xtreme Two: A Time Sequencing Study Assessing the Inhibitory
Effect of Pentahydroxypentane (Xylitol) on the Bacterial Growth Curve of Strep. mutans.
Sabrina Prabakaran – the
American Physiological Society award for
the best projects in the physiological sciences which include cellular
physiology, animal physiology and neurophysiology – Third Award of $500 for her
project on Treatment of Age-related
Macular Degeneration, Year Two: Effect of Intraocular Steroid on Choroidal
Neovasculature and Vitreal Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Level
Benjamin
Brinkopf - the Florida
Institute of Technology Scholarship Award of $12,500 per year for four years for
his project on Testing the Efficient
Market Hypothesis with Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms
Mary Margaret Brinkopf
– the Office of Naval Research on behalf of the United States Navy and
Marine Corps Tuition Scholarship
Award in the amount of $8,000 for her project on Working Memory Interference Effect on Visual ERP's
ISEF 2005 (
Sarah Langberg - Honorable mention award from the Association
of Engineering Geologists (AEG) and award of $1,000 from the Association for
Women Geophysicists for her project on Geochemistry
of the Southern Juan de Fuca Ridge: Isotopic Mantle Source Investigations
ISEF 2004 (
Sarah
Langberg - Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award
Petrology, Morphology,
and Geochemistry of the Southern Juan de Fuca Ridge: Evidence for Off-Axis
Volcanism
Intel Science Talent
Search 2003
Jamie
Rubin -
Characterization of the
Secreted Aspartic Proteinases of Candida
albicans Using a Novel Combinatorial Approach.
Discovery Young
Scientist Challenge 2003
Peter
Borden - National Finalist
The Effect of Neem Oil
on the Ochlerotatus taeniorhychus
Mosquito: An Effective and Environmentally-Sound Approach to Mosquito Control
Scott
Presbrey - National Finalist
The Response of
Gerontology and Non-gerontology Populations to Caffeinated Coffee
ISEF 2003 (
Timothy
Borden – Third Award of $1,000 in Environmental Sciences for his project on The
Implications of the Flow of Bacteria in the Atmosphere on Terrestrial
Ecosystems: A Three Year Study
ISEF 2002 (
Ian
Gorovoy - Intel Foundation Achievement Award
The Cancer Vaccine
Diana
Weiner – Second Award of $500 from the American Association for Clinical Chemistry
Timothy
Borden – Second Award of $1,500 in Environmental Sciences and an all
expense-paid trip to attend the U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama for his
project on Identifying Bacteria that Have Crossed the Atlantic Ocean in
Clouds of African Dust Using Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), DNA Cloning and
DNA Sequencing: Two-Year Study
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