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Long Island's 2013 Intel semifinalists
These 53 Long Island high school seniors are among 300 semifinalists nationally in the Intel Science Talent Search 2013. They were selected from more than 1,700 entrants and come from 190 high schools in more than 30 states, plus one American high school overseas. Semifinalists are awarded $1,000 and their high schools each receive a matching $1,000. Forty finalists nationwide will be announced Jan. 23. They will compete from March 7-12 in Washington, D.C., for the top 10, with a top award of $100,000.
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| Name | High school | City of residence | Age | Category | Description |
| Kavita Jain | Smithtown High School | Smithtown | 17 | Animal Sciences | Demonstrating Relationships between the Morphology of the Trigeminal System and Feeding Performance in the American Alligator: A New Tool for Understanding Feeding Evolution |
| Alain Sherman | Roslyn High School | Roslyn Estates | 17 | Behavioral and Social Sciences | Doctor Who? Factors Related to the Selection of the Primary Care Physician |
| Nicasia Beebe-Wang | Westhampton Beach High School | Westhampton | 17 | Behavioral and Social Sciences | Trait (Dopamine Transporter Gene) _ State (Withdrawal) Interaction in Responsiveness to Cocaine Stimuli in Cocaine Addiction |
| Sonia Joshi | Jericho Senior High School | Jericho | 17 | Behavioral and Social Sciences | Concomitant Protease Inhibitor Administration: Saquinavir and Ritonavir Reduce Septic Complications Minus Cognition |
| Arvind Kumar | Roslyn High School | Roslyn Heights | 16 | Behavioral and Social Sciences | A Model of Dropout Propensity among Heterogeneous Adolescents: The Role of Resilience |
| Emma McNamara | Sanford H. Calhoun High School | Merrick | 17 | Behavioral and Social Sciences | Female Dominance Hierarchies as a Predictor of Relative Canine Size Dimorphism in the Macaca Genus |
| Samuel Lam | Jericho Senior High School | Old Westbury | 17 | Behavioral and Social Sciences | Tai Ch Pilot Study: Assessing Quality of Life, Mood States, and Salivary Cortisol Levels in Chinese Americans after Breast Cancer Diagnosis |
| Ethan Levine | Roslyn High School | Roslyn Estates | 17 | Behavioral and Social Sciences | Why the Mommy Track Doesn't Lead to the State House: The Effect of Candidate Gender and the Age of Their Children on Voter Perceptions |
| Joshua Pollock | John F. Kennedy High School | Merrick | 17 | Behavioral and Social Sciences | Emotional Face Recognition |
| Arielle Chapin | Lawrence High School | Atlantic Beach | 17 | Behavioral and Social Sciences | Do adolescent males have an advantage in spatial learning? |
| Michael Zhang | Smithtown High School East | Saint James | 18 | Behavioral and Social Sciences | Role-Inducted Perspective Visual Behavior during Scene Free-Viewing |
| Alexandra Tse | Lawrence High School | North Woodmere | 17 | Behavioral and Social Sciences | Grit vs. IQ: Assessing the Relative Impacts of Effort & Intelligence in Academic Success among 'Tweens' |
| Arshia Aalami | Roslyn High School | Roslyn | 17 | Behavioral and Social Sciences | My Paper Is Fantastic! Gender Differences in Self-Promotion and Their Effects on Perceptions of a College Essay |
| Kenan Mutlu | Kings Park High School | Kings Park | 17 | Behavioral and Social Sciences | The Effects of Shifting the Subject of Suspense During Cognitive Appraisal in Relation to Suggestibility and Cued Recall Capacity |
| Corey Wald | Mepham High School | Bellmore | 17 | Behavioral and Social Sciences | The Sky's the Limit- An Investigation of Cloud Cover on Major League Baseball Performance |
| Avigael Sosnowik | Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls | Lawrence | 17 | Behavioral and Social Sciences | The Coactivation of Positive and Negative Feelings: Film Genres' Effects on Adolescent Emotions |
| Jason Kay | Hewlett High School | Hewlett | 17 | Behavioral and Social Sciences | Why Do Bullies Bully? An Examination of the Role of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors in Motivating and Enabling Bullying Behavior |
| Minah Kim | Paul D. Schreiber High School | Port Washington | 17 | Biochemistry | Inhibition of the FabI Enoyl-ACP Reductase from Burkholderia pseudomallei |
| Mayuri Sridhar | Kings Park High School | Kings Park | 17 | Biochemistry | Computational Analysis of the DNA-Binding Mechanism of the p53 Tumor Suppressor and its Inactivation through the R249S Mutation |
| James Shamul | Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School | Old Bethpage | 17 | Biochemistry | A Search for Novel MicroRNAs Triggering Liver Cancer Development |
| Anson Wang | East Meadow High School | East Meadow | 17 | Biochemistry | Regulation of memory protein PKMzeta in Alzheimer's disease |
| Michael Shen | Jericho Senior High School | Jericho | 16 | Biochemistry | FTO and RPGRIP1L Regulate Proliferation in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes and OXPHOS Gene Expression in HepG2 Hepatocytes |
| Jonathan Kim | Half Hollow Hills High School East | Deer Park | 17 | Biochemistry | Determining the Cell Cycle Stage of Cells in Developing Hair Follicles |
| Tammy Jin | Half Hollow Hills High School East | Melville | 17 | Biochemistry | Variable M3-S2 Linker Tension Modulates N-Methyl D-Aspartate Receptor Activity in a Subunit Specific Manner |
| Nicholas Spiezio | Smithtown High School East | St. James | 17 | Biochemistry | Cellular Delivery of Gene-Silencing Products |
| Meenakshi Krishna | Herricks High School | Williston Park | 17 | Biochemistry | Hypoxia and Nitric Oxide Regulate Angiogenesis Inhibitors in Injury and Disease |
| Sanjula Singhal | Ward Melville High School | Lake Grove | 17 | Biochemistry | Novel Technology for Brand Protection and Anti- Counterfeiting Measures using DNA and Fluorophore |
| Phoebe McAuliffe | Ward Melville High School | Setauket | 17 | Biochemistry | Understanding the Connection Between Metabolism and the HPG Axis by Linking Kisspeptin and Akt and Mapping p110GAMMA in Female Mouse Brains |
| Nick Fiacco | Manhasset High School | Manhasset | 17 | Biochemistry | Localization of Pkc1p with the Septins in Sporulating S. cerevisiae is Dependent on GIP1 Expression |
| Prady Manepalli | Smithtown High School | Smithtown | 17 | Bioengineering | An Effective Application of Graphene Oxide Nanoribbons as a Chemotherapeutic Drug Delivery System |
| Raymond Wu | Jericho Senior High School | Jericho | 17 | Bioengineering | A model of the action potential in a cardiac myocyte and the effects of duration on ion currents |
| Puja Bansal | Half Hollow Hills High School East | Dix Hills | 17 | Bioengineering | Three Dimensional Molecular Imprinting for the Detection of Viral Pathogens |
| Jacob Wax | Harborfields High School | Greenlawn | 17 | Bioengineering | Investigating the Sensitivity and Specificity of the Potentiometric Biosensor Mechanism Through Bacteria and Bacterial Spore Cross Testing |
| Michelle Long | Syosset High School | Syosset | 17 | Bioengineering | Elucidation of Qualitative and Quantitative Design Parameters of Synthetic Morphogenetic Gene Circuits for Cohesive, Patterned Microtissues |
| Jared Weiss | Syosset High School | Syosset | 17 | Computer Science | Automatic Annotation of Large Image Datasets via Human Gaze |
| Julia Zhuang | Great Neck North High School | Great Neck | 17 | Earth and Planetary Science | Analysis of Cascadia Episodic Tremor and Slip Events Using Time-Dependent Displacement and Strain Fields Derived from GPS Data |
| Benjamin Pleat | Herricks High School | Roslyn | 17 | Earth and Planetary Science | A Novel Approach to Locating Geothermal Systems in Relation to Geodetic Crustal Deformation and Strain Rate Tensors |
| Wesley Cox | Kings Park High School | Kings Park | 17 | Engineering | Design of an Electromagnetic Energy Harvester for Wildlife Tracking |
| Drew Feldman | Paul D. Schreiber High School | Port Washington | 17 | Engineering | Elastic Modulus Reconstructions from Sparse Displacement Measurements |
| Sunny Zheng | Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School | Plainview | 17 | Engineering | Cellulose Nanowhiskers: Enzymatic Hydrolysis and Incorporation in Epoxidized Polymers |
| Brendan Liu | Jericho Senior High School | Jericho | 17 | Environmental Science | Polyvinylamine Grafted Electrospun Polyacrylonitrile Membranes for Cr(VI) Adsorption |
| Andrew Chen | Lawrence High School | North Woodmere | 17 | Materials Science | Incorporation of Graphene into Organic Polymer Solar Cells via Chemical Functionalization with Metal Nanoparticles |
| Robert Tannenbaum | Half Hollow Hills High School East | Melville | 17 | Materials Science | Enhancement of Graphene-based Supercapacitor Devices in Both Symmetric and Asymmetric Electrochemical Cell Environments |
| David Kim | Great Neck South High School | Great Neck | 17 | Mathematics | Packing Versus Covering in the Euclidean Plane |
| Nakul Gupta | Farmingdale High School | Farmingdale | 17 | Medicine and Health | Employing siRNA to Recruit KCNQ1 through microRNA Pathways: Implications for Long QT Syndrome |
| Cyrus Zhou | Great Neck South High School | Great Neck | 17 | Medicine and Health | Accelerated Lateral Ventricle Growth in Normal Individuals as Well Cognitive Decliners |
| Gloria Zheng | Ward Melville High School | South Setauket | 17 | Medicine and Health | The Potentiation of Human Glycine Receptor Channels in HEK-293 Cells By Sevoflurane |
| Rebecca Monastero | Sayville High School | Sayville | 17 | Medicine and Health | Interactions of Mercury and Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Avid Seafood Consumers |
| Rohan Goyal | Half Hollow Hills High School East | Melville | 16 | Medicine and Health | Human Immunodeficiency Virus Induces Pro-Apoptotic Features in Renal Cells through the Down Regulation of Vitamin D Receptor |
| Abhinav Patil | Half Hollow Hills High School East | Melville | 17 | Physics and Space Science | Geometric Phase as a Systematic Error in the Proton EDM Experiment |
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