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A third of America's budding science talent are of Indian origin
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By Arun KumarNearly one-third of the 40 high school seniors named finalists in the
Intel Science Talent Search 2015, America's oldest and most prestigious
pre-college science and math competition, are of Indian origin.
The
finalists receive an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, DC from
March 5 to 11 to compete for more than $1 million in awards from the
Intel Foundation.
Run by the Society for Science & the
Public, the contest recognises the most promising young US innovators
creating the technologies and solutions that will that will make
people's lives better.
Intel Science Talent Search recently
tripled its top award money, replacing the single $100,000 top prize
with three Medal of Distinction awards of $150,000 each.
"Intel
invests in engineering, math and science education to support the next
generation of innovators, who will create the products and services to
enrich our daily lives," said Justin Rattner, president of the Intel
Foundation.
Selected from 300 semifinalists and more than 1,800 entrants, the finalists are from 36 schools in 18 states.
In
the past, young innovators chosen to participate in the Science Talent
Search have gone on to receive more than 100 of the world's most
prestigious honours,
including eight Nobel Prizes.
The 13 Indian American finalists and their projects are:
Anandapadmanaban, Eswar, Jersey City, New Jersey; The ThereNIM: A Touch-less Respiratory Monitor.
Chemparathy,
Augustine George, San Ramon, California; Accumulation of the Biodiesel
Precursor Triacylglycerol Offsets Oxidative Stress in the Model Alga
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
D'Mello, Ryan, Lisle, Illinois; A New
Result on Gaps Between Integer Points on Elliptic Curves with Coverage
of Applications to Cryptography. Gupta, Anvita, Scottsdale, Arizona;
Computational Drug Discovery for Cancer, Tuberculosis, and Ebola by
Targeting Intrinsically Disordered Proteins.
Khare, Somya, San
Jose, California; Changes in Growth Rate and Cytoskeletal Activity
During the Starvation Response in E. coli. Kishore, Shashwat, Kennett
Square, Pennsylvania; Multiplicity Space Signatures and Applications in
Tensor Products of sl2 Representations. Kuditipudi, Rohith, San Jose,
California; Network Based Integration of High Throughput Gene Expression
and Methylation Data Reveals New Insights into NAFLD Progression.
Lall,
Kriti, Palo Alto, California; A Novel Bacteria Strain and Bioreactor
for Practical Arsenic Water Bioremediation. Pandya, Dhaivat Nitin,
Appleton, Wisconsin; Minimum Cost Linear Network Coding Design for
General Connections.
Pathak, Reesab, Camas, Washington;
Cytomegalovirus Vaccine Vectors Induce Universal, MHC-E Restricted CD8+ T
cells Against AIDS Virus. Prembabu, Saranesh, San Ramon, California;
Coupled Electric and Magnetic Properties in Artificially-Layered
Perovskite Thin Films. Raghuvanshi, Anika, Portland, Orlando; Logic
Synthesis and a Generalized Notation for Memristor-Realized Material
Implication Gates. Tandon, Tanay, Cupertino, California; Topographical
Computer Vision Algorithms for Rapid, Low-cost Hematological Diagnostics
and Parasite Detection Through Random Forests Classification and van
Leeuwenhoek-type Imaging.
(Arun Kumar can be contacted at [email protected])