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2007 Intel Science Talent Search
Winners
First Place: $100,000 scholarship, Mary Masterman, 17,
Oklahoma City, for developing an accurate spectrograph that identifies the
specific characteristics—or "fingerprints"—of different kinds of
molecules.
Second Place: $75,000 scholarship, John Pardon, 17,
Chapel Hill, N.C., for a project that showed a finite-length closed curve
in the plane can be made convex in a continuous manner, and without
bringing any two points of the curve closer together.
Third Place: $50,000 scholarship, Dmitry Vaintrob, 18,
Eugene, Oregon, for a project that proved loop homology and Hochschild
cohomology coincide for an important class of spaces.
Fourth Place: $25,000 scholarship, Catherine
Schlingheyde, 17, Oyster Bay, N.Y., for her research on microRNA
repression, a basic mechanism that regulates cell function.
Fifth Place: $25,000 scholarship, Rebecca Kaufman, 17,
Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., for her study of the effects of male hormones in a
model of schizophrenia.
Sixth Place: $25,000 scholarship, Gregory Brockman,
18, of Thompson, N.D., for his mathematics project that provided a
thorough analysis of Ducci sequences, also known as the "four-number
game."
Seventh Place: $20,000 scholarship, Megan Blewett, 17,
of Madison, N.J., for her analysis of a protein that may be implicated in
multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Eighth Place: $20,000 scholarship, Daniel Handlin, 18,
of Lincroft, N.J., for developing an accurate, low-cost method of
determining the position of geo-stationary Earth-orbit (GEO)
satellites.
Ninth Place: $20,000 scholarship, Meredith MacGregor,
18, of Boulder, Colorado, for her research on the fluid dynamics of the
"Brazil Nut Effect," in which shaken particles separate by size with the
largest on top.
Tenth Place: $20,000 scholarship, Emma Call, 18,
Baltimore, Maryland, for the fabrication of 3-D microcubes, which have
potential use as novel drug-delivery devices.
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