These Westchester High School Seniors Named Regeneron Scholars

The 300 will be awarded $2,000 each and their schools will be awarded $2,000 for each enrolled scholar.

The Regeneron Science Talent Search scholars were selected from 1,949 applications from 627 high schools across 48 states, Washington, DC, Puerto Rico, and four other countries.

The following Westchester students were named:

• Ariella Maia Blackman, Age: 18, Harrison High School. Project Title: Developing a Model in situ Resource Utilization System for Oxygen-Sustaining Life Support and Launch Cost Reduction for Mars.
• Raka Bose, Age: 17, Yorktown High School. Project Title: Using Artificial Intelligence for ICU Patient Triage.
• Katie Brandler, Age: 17, Pelham Memorial High School. Project Title: The First Report of Marine Debris as a Dispersal Vector for Native and Introduced Species in the Temperate Northwest Atlantic Ocean
• Rohini Elora Das, Age: 17, Byram Hills High School. Project Title: “Let’s Sleep On It”: Employing the Brain App To Measure the Impact of Sleep in Consolidating Prior Learning.
• Lauren Davidson, Age: 17, Harrison High School. Project Title: The Effect of Copper Sulfate Concentration on Locomotor Ability and Lifespan of Alzheimer’s Model Drosophila melanogaster.
• Samara Davis, Age: 17, Ossining High School. Project Title: Developing Environmental DNA Metabarcoding for the Detection of Elusive Vernal Pool-Breeding Amphibians.
• Cindy DeDianous, Age: 17, Scarsdale High School. Project Title: Alpha Retinal Ganglion Cell Dysfunction Precedes Vascular Dysfunction in a Mouse Model of Type 1 Diabetes.
• Vihaan Dheer, Age: 18, Hackley School. Project Title: The Optimization of Flux Trajectories for the Adiabatic Controlled-Z Gate on Split-Tunable Transmons.
• Ali El Moselhy, Age: 18, Scarsdale High School. Project Title: Framework for Optimal Budget Allocation of HIV Intervention Policies.
• Jacob Elias Feldman, Age: 17, Fox Lane High School. Project Title: The Geometry and Reactivity of a Novel Zirconium-Centered Coordination Complex Supported by a bis-PN Ligand Framework.
• Lucca Forrest, Age: 18, Hastings High School. Project Title: A Quantitative Regression and Volatility Analysis of the Relationship Between Economics and Political Stability.
• Sarah Gardner, Age: 17, Ossining High School. Project Title: Co-Evolving Across Time: Black Holes as Regulators of Their Host Galaxy Properties.
• AriAnnah Goodwin, Age: 17, Ossining High School. Project Title: Forecasting Visual Aura Characteristics: Perceived Stress Does Not Predict Temporal Aura Features in Adolescents.
• Carly Googel, Age: 17, Horace Greeley High School. Project Title: The Connection Between Stress and a Person’s Ability To Understand Their Own Mind and the Minds of Others.
• Sarah Delia Jennings, Age: 17, Ossining High School. Project Title: Electron Transport Chain Acts as Potential Regulator of ER-Mitochondria Interactions.
• Sameer Ullal Kini, Age: 17, Scarsdale High School. Project Title: Associations Between Pathophysiological Traits and Symptom Development in V30M and V122I Transthyretin Amyloidosis.
• Elvin Lo, Age: 17, Horace Greeley High School. Project Title: An Empirical Evaluation of Zeroth-Order Optimization Methods on AI-Driven Molecule Optimization.
• Jesse Lynch, Age: 17, Ossining High School. Project Title: Aerobic Exercise Serves as an Effective and Immediate Treatment for Decreased Sound Tolerance in Adolescents.
• Remi Paige Matza, Age: 18, Byram Hills High School. Project Title: Revealing the Retinal Vascular Changes Caused by Age-Related Macular Degeneration.
• Samantha Maya Milewicz, Age: 17, Byram Hills High School. Project Title: Selective Inhibition of Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 Attenuates Traumatic Brain Injury-Mediated Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption in a Novel Dynamic in vitro Model.
• Lindsay Miller, Age: 17, Byram Hills High School. Project Title: Here Comes the Sun: The Impact of Chronotype and Seasonal Mood Variation on Pupillary Light Response Across the Circadian Cycle.
• Joseph Miguel Robertazzi, Age: 17, Ossining High School. Project Title: Migration and Magnetism: A Longitudinal Analysis Identifying the Relationship Between the South Atlantic Anomaly and Shifts in Migratory Bird Populations.
• Cami Sandell, Age: 18, John Jay-Cross River High School, Project Title: Can People Intentionally Wake Up From Sleep.
• Samantha Schaevitz, Age: 17, Byram Hills High School. Project Title: Investigating the Use of Focused Ultrasound To Induce Blood-Brain Barrier Opening and Increase Drug Delivery Into a Murine Model of Primary High-Grade Glioma Tumors
• Leah Sherbansky, Age: 17, Pelham Memorial High School. Project Title: Exploring the Relationship of SSTR2 Immunohistochemical and Textural Features to Neuroendocrine Tumor Grade.
• Bryan Shi, Age: 17, Scarsdale High School. Project Title: A Mutagenesis Study of the Parkinson’s Protein α-Synuclein Reveals An Unexpected Link Between Membrane Association and Serine-129 Phosphorylation.
• Jason M. Starr, Age: 17, Briarcliff High School. Project Title: An Agent-Based Model of COVID-19 Social Determinants of Health for Equitable Intervention Implementation.
• Julia Sun, Age: 17, Horace Greeley High School. Project Title: Deregulated Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor (AhR) and Malignant Transformation.
• Jaden Tepper, Age: 17, Scarsdale High School, Project Title: Creating a Novel Device To Improve the Evacuation of Subdural Hematomas.
• Emma Van Praagh, Age: 17, Pelham Memorial High School. Project Title: Investigating Connections Between Sensorimotor Impairment and Resting-State Functional MRI of the Spinal Cord in Multiple Sclerosis.
• Amy Yang, Age: 17, Horace Greeley High School. Project Title: Image-Based Deep Learning on Air Quality Using a Nine-Layer Residual Neural Network.
• Nicole Emma Zlotnikov, Age: 18, Scarsdale High School. Project Title: Asparagopsis taxiformis Reduces Methane Emissions and Alters Microbiome Composition in Organic Grazing Sheep.

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