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Student work published in print, on-line, or both in 2021. Daelah is the first author of this paper, a position that is rare for high school students.

• Daelah Nicholas
  • Infant temperament: Exploring the potential role of maternal dietary choline and folate consumption during pregnancy in a Michigan pregnancy cohort with Chia-Lun Yang, Nicole Talge, and principal investigator Jean Kerver at Michigan State University in Current Developments in Nutrition. Vol. 6, No. S1 (2022): 697. Daelah also presented this project at the American Society for Nutrition's virtual conference, Nutrition 2022, on the day this volume of the journal was released.

Science is a collaborative effort. No one works alone. The highest praise a mentor can give to a student is to include them as an author on a scientific paper. From 1998 to 2022, 31 Midwood Science students have seen the work they did while still in high school published in peer-reviewed journals. Three had their names appear first in the list of authors, which means they were recognized as contributing more than anyone else.

All efforts have been made to ensure this record is exhaustively complete. If I have missed anything, please let me know.

2022

Daelah is the first author of this paper, a position that is rare for high school students.

• Daelah Nicholas
  • Infant temperament: Exploring the potential role of maternal dietary choline and folate consumption during pregnancy in a Michigan pregnancy cohort with Chia-Lun Yang, Nicole Talge, and principal investigator Jean Kerver at Michigan State University in Current Developments in Nutrition. Vol. 6, No. S1 (2022): 697. Daelah also presented this project at the American Society for Nutrition's virtual conference, Nutrition 2022, on the day this volume of the journal was released.

2021

• Jasmine Huang
  • Another look at the extinction of conditioned flavor preferences: Amount of training and tests for spontaneous recovery with Norman Tu and principal investigator Andrew R. Delamater at Brooklyn College in Learning & Behavior. Vol. 49, No. 4 (2021): 405–421.

2020

Nomon graduated in 2017, Jennifer in 2018, Toby in 2019.

• Nomon Mohammad
  • Aluminum ions speciation and transport in acidic deep eutectic AlCl₃ amide electrolytes with Domenec Paterno, Emma Rock, Andrew Forbes, Rija Iqbala, and principal investigator Sophia Suarez at Brooklyn College in the Journal of Molecular Liquids. Vol. 319 (2020): 114118.
• Jennifer Duong
  • Solvent-assisted nanochannel encapsulation of a natural phase change material in polystyrene hollow fibers for high-performance thermal energy storage with Rawan Ghaban, Dev Patel, Harmann Singh, Wenshuai Chen, and principal investigator Ping Lu at Long Island University in ACS Applied Energy Materials. Vol. 3, No. 10 (2020): 10089–10096.
• Rui Ting (Toby) Li
  • A double-blind test of blue-blocking filters on symptoms of digital eye strain with Nancy Kirsch and principal investigator Mark Rosenfield at the SUNY College of Optometry in Work. Vol. 65, No. 2 (2020): 343–348.

2018

• Beien Lin and Kathy Mania
  • Soil and microbial properties of green infrastructure Technosols in stormwater management systems with Maha Deeb, Peter M Groffman, Jessica L Joyner, George Lozefski, Anna Paltseva, Donna L Cao, John McLaughlin, Theodore Muth, Bharath Prithiviraj, Jordan Kerwin, and principal investigator Zhongqi (Joshua) Cheng at Brooklyn College in Ecological Engineering. Vol. 125 (2018): 68–75.

2015

Kiara and Shadika graduated in 2014. Kahei graduated from Midwood in 2008 and was working with Dr. Rosenfield as student of SUNY Optometry when this experiment was conducted.

• Kiara Nuñez, Shadika Jahan, and Kahei Chan
  • Cognitive demand, digital screens and blink rate with principal investigator Mark Rosenfield at the SUNY College of Optometry in Computers in Human Behavior. Vol. 51, No. A (2015): 403–406.

2014

Gabby is the first author of this paper, a position that is rare for high school students.

• Gabrielle Lynch
  • Attrition rates in neurosurgery residency: analysis of 1361 consecutive residents matched from 1990 to 1999 with Karina Nieto, Saumya Puthenveettil, Marleen Reyes, Michael Jureller, Jason H. Huang, M. Sean Grady, Odette A. Harris, Aruna Ganju, Isabelle M. Germano, Julie G. Pilitsis, Susan C. Pannullo, Deborah L. Benzil, Aviva Abosch, Sarah J. Fouke, and principal investigator Uzma Samadani at the New York University School of Medicine in the Journal of Neurosurgery. Vol. 122, No. 2 (2014): 237–481.

2013

Francisca and Mercy graduated in 2011, Leo in 2013.

• Francisca Onyiuke and Mercy Palomeque
  • Determination of heart rate variability with an electronic stethoscope with Haroon Kamran, Isaac Naggar, Priya Chokshi, Louis Salciccioli, Mark Stewart and principal investigator Jason M. Lazar at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Clinical Autonomic Research. Vol. 23, No. 1 (2013): 41–47.
• Jian Cong (Leo) Liao
  • Mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) Preference and Behavioral Response to Animated Images of Conspecifics Altered in Their Color, Aspect Ratio, and Swimming Depth with Giovanni Polverino and Maurizio Porfiri at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University in PLOS ONE Vol. 8, No. 1 (2013): e54315.

2012

• Nicole Ng and Zhao Na Wang
  • On the inverse temperature transition and development of an entropic elastomeric force of the elastin mimetic peptide [LGGVG]_3,7 with Jiaxin Huang, Cheng Sun, Odingo Mitchell, and principal investigator Gregory S. Boutis of Brooklyn College in the Journal of Chemical Physics. Vol. 136, No. 8 (2012): 085101–09.

2011

• Kirill Grinberg
  • Multimode selective detection of mercury by chiroptical fluorescent sensors based on methionine/cysteine with Patrick Carney, Steven Lopez, Amanda Mickley, Wenyao Zhang, and principal investigator Zhaohua Dai of Pace University in Chirality. Vol. 23, No. 10 (2011): 916–920.

2009

Two students who graduated in 2009 coauthored academic works.

• Regina Gurevich
  • Computer Vision Syndrome: Accommodative and Vergence Facility with Elizabeth Wickware, Marc Lay, and principal investigator Mark Rosenfield of the SUNY College of Optometry in the Journal of Behavioral Optometry. Vol. 21, No. 5 (2010): 119–122.
• John Ferrara
  • The role of procalcitonin in the diagnosis of sepsis and patient assignment to medical intensive care with Arun Devakonda, Ester Engelman, Gitta Pancer, James Rucinski, Suhail Raoof, Liziamma George, Lawrence Melniker, and principal investigator Larry Bernstein in the Journal of Clinical Ligand Assay. Vol. 30, No. 3–4 (Fall–Winter 2007): 98–104. For his contribution to this paper, John received a Distinguished Abstract Award from the National Academy of Clinical Chemistry and was a presenter at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry.

2008

• Na Xue
  • Rationally Designed Anti-HIV Peptides Containing Multifunctional Domains as Molecule Probes for Studying the Mechanisms of Action of the First and Second Generation HIV Fusion Inhibitors with Zhi Qi, Weiguo Shi, Chungen Pan, Weiguo Jing, Keliang Li, and principal investigator Shibo Jiang. Published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Vol. 283, No. 44 (2008): 30376–30384.
  • Novel anti-HIV peptides containing multiple copies of artificially designed heptad repeat motif with Weiguo Shi, Zhi Qi, Chungen Pan, Asim K. Debnath, Jiankun Qie, Keliang Liu, and principal investigator Shibo Jiang. Published in Biochemical and biophysical research communications. Vol. 364, No. 4 (2008): 767–722.

2007

Three students who graduated in 2007 coauthored academic works.

• Farhana Hoque
  • C-Reactive Protein for the Enhanced Evaluation of the Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) with Gitta Pancer, Ester Engelman, Mohammed Alam, James Rucinski, and Larry Bernstein. Published in The Open Clinical Chemistry Journal. Vol. 2011, No. 4 (2011): 1–9.
• Arif Hussain
  • Crystal Structure of the Putative Dephospho-CoA Kinase from Aquifex aeolicus, Northeast Structural Genomics Target QR72 with F. Forouhar, M. Hussain, J. Seetharaman, M. Wu, Y. Fang, K. Cunningham, L.C. Ma, R. Xiao, J. Liu, M. Baran, B. Rost, T.B. Acton, G.T. Montelione, J.F. Hunt, and L. Tong of Columbia University. Published in the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank (RCSB-PDB), 3 October 2006.
  • Molecular insights into substrate recognition and catalysis by tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase with Farhad Forouhar, J. L. Ross Anderson, Christopher G. Mowat, Sergey M. Vorobiev, Mariam Abashidze, Chiara Bruckmann, Sarah J. Thackray, Jayaraman Seetharaman, Todd Tucker, Rong Xiao, Li-Chung Ma, Li Zhao, Thomas B. Acton, Gaetano T. Montelione, Stephen K. Chapman, and Liang Tong. Published in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Vol. 104, No. 2 (9 January 2007): 473-478.
• Wingyin Lo
  • Modulation of larval nutrition affects midgut neutral lipid storage and temporal pattern of transcription factor expression during mosquito metamorphosis with James T. Nishiura, Cynthia Burgosa, Samuel Ayaa, and Yekaterina Goryachevaa of Brooklyn College. Published in the Journal of Insect Physiology. Vol. 53, No. 1 (January 2007): 47-58.

2005

Four students who graduated in 2005 coauthored academic works.

• Munif Hussain
  • Crystal Structure of the Putative Peptidyl-arginine Deiminase from Chlorobium tepidum, NESG Target CtR21 with A.R. Befeler, S.M. Vorobiev, M. Ciano, T.B. Acton, G.T. Montelione, J.F. Hunt, L. Tong and Farhad Forouhar of Columbia University. Published in the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank (RCSB-PDB), 16 November 2004.
  • Crystal Structure of Human 3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA Lyase: Insights into Catalysis and the Molecular Basis for Hydroxymethylglutaric Aciduria with Zhuji Fu, Jennifer A. Runquist, Munif Hussain, John F. Hunt, Henry M. Miziorko, Jung-Ja P. Kim, and Farhad Forouhar. Published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Vol. 281, No. 11 (2006): 7526–7532.
  • Crystal Structures of Two Bacterial 3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA Lyases Suggest a Common Catalytic Mechanism among a Family of TIM Barrel Metalloenzymes Cleaving Carbon-Carbon Bonds with Ramy Farid, Jordi Benach, Mariam Abashidze, William C. Edstrom, Sergey M. Vorobiev, Rong Xiao, Thomas B. Acton, Zhuji Fu∥, Jung-Ja P. Kim∥, Henry M. Miziorko, Gaetano T. Montelione, John F. Hunt, and Farhad Forouhar. Published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Vol. 281, No. 11 (2006): 7533–7545.
  • Molecular Insights into the Biosynthesis of the F420 Coenzyme with Mariam Abashidze, Huimin Xu, Laura L. Grochowski, Jayaraman Seetharaman, Alexandre Kuzin, Yang Chen, Weihong Zhou, Rong Xiao, Thomas B. Acton, Gaetano T. Montelione, Anne Galinier, Robert H. White, Liang Tong, and Farhad Forouhar. Published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Vol. 283, No. 17 (2008): 11832–11840.
• Olga Pikovskaya
  • Structural Basis for Discriminative Regulation of Gene Expression by Adenine-and Guanine-Sensing mRNAs with Alexander Serganov, Yu-Ren Yuan, Anna Polonskaia, Lucy Malinina, Anh Tuân Phan, Claudia Hobartner, Ronald Micura, Ronald R. Breaker, and Dinshaw Patel. Published in Cell Chemical Biology. Vol. 11, No. 12 (2004): 1729–1741.
• Jerard Kneifati-Hayek
  • A model for automated screening of thalassemia in hematology (math study) with William Fleischman, Anthony Riccioli, Rita Bellevue, and Larry Bernstein. Published in Laboratory Hematology. Vol. 13, No. 4 (2007): 119–123.
• Madeleine Schleffer
  • A simplified nutrition screen for hospitalized patients using readily available laboratory and patient information with Linda Brugler R.D., Ana K. Stankovic, and Larry Bernstein. Published in Nutrition. Vol. 21, No. 6 (2005): 650–658.
• Madeleine Schleffer and Jerard Kneifati-Hayek
  • Enhancing the diagnostic performance of troponins in the acute care setting with Salman A. Haq, Morteza Tavakol, Steven Silber, Larry Bernstein, Lesan T. Banko, John F. Heitner, Terrence J. Sacchi, and Joseph A. Puma. Published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine. Vol. 40, No. 4 (2011): 367–373.
  • The ACC/ESC Recommendation for 99th Percentile of the Reference Normal Troponin I Overestimates the Risk of an Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Novel Enhancement in the Diagnostic Performance of Troponin I with Salman A Haq, Steven H Silber, Lesan Banko, Salman Shah, Terrence J Sacchi, Joseph A Puma, and Larry Bernstein. Published in Circulation. Vol 111, No. 20 (2005): e313.

2002

Jacquline graduated in 2001 and Jessica graduated in 1999.

• Jacquline Ling and Jessica Cepriano
  • Endocrine disruption caused by two common pollutants at "acceptable" concentrations with Lucia Magliuloa and principal investigator Martin P. Schreibman at Brooklyn College in Neurotoxicology and Teratology. Vol. 24, No. 1 (2002): 71–79.

2000

• Imran Arif
  • Instrumentation and Calibration Protocol for Imaging Dynamic Features in Dense-Scattering Media by Optical Tomography with Christoph H. Schmitz, Harry l. Graber, Hengbin Luo, Jai Hira, Yaling Pei, Avraham Bluestone, Sheng Zhong, Randy Andronica, Ira Soller, Nestor Ramirez, San-Lian S. Barbour, and principal investigator Randall L. Barbour at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Applied Optics. Vol. 39, No. 34 (2000): 6466–6486.

1999

• Hui Kun Hao
  • Learning and memory in the FMR1 knockout mouse with Cathy Bakker, Ben A. Oostra, and principal investigator Gene S. Fisch at Yale University in the American Journal of Medical Genetics. Vol. 84, No. 3 (1999): 277–282.

1998

• George Sclavos
  • Solution structures of the 9-ketone and 9,12-hemiacetal forms of erythromycin A in 90% H₂O as determined by NMR and molecular modelling with Abdesslem Khiat, Yvan Boulanger, and principal investigator Fernando Commodari at Long Island University in the Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 2. Vol. 1998, No. 9 (1998): 1947–1956.

On Tuesday, June 14, Midwood Science senior Daelah Nicholas presented her research project at the American Society for Nutrition's virtual conference, Nutrition 2022. An abstract of her work was also published at the same time in the June issue of Current Developments in Nutrition. The conference presentation is for registered attendees only, but the journal article is "open access", i.e. free of charge. Daelah worked under the supervision of Dr. Jean Kever in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan.

Presentation	Abstract
Infant temperament: Exploring the potential role of maternal dietary choline and folate consumption during pregnancy in a Michigan pregnancy cohort. Daelah Nicholas (Midwood High School) with Chia-Lun Yang, Nicole Talge, & Dr. Jean Kerver (Michigan State University).

Student work published in print, on-line, or both in 2021.

• Jasmine Huang
  • Another look at the extinction of conditioned flavor preferences: Amount of training and tests for spontaneous recovery with Norman Tu and principal investigator Andrew R. Delamater at Brooklyn College in Learning & Behavior. Vol. 49, No. 4 (2021): 405–421.

Student work published in print, on-line, or both in 2020. Nomon graduated in 2017, Jennifer in 2018, Toby in 2019.

• Nomon Mohammad
  • Aluminum ions speciation and transport in acidic deep eutectic AlCl₃ amide electrolytes with Domenec Paterno, Emma Rock, Andrew Forbes, Rija Iqbala, and principal investigator Sophia Suarez at Brooklyn College in the Journal of Molecular Liquids. Vol. 319 (2020): 114118.
• Jennifer Duong
  • Solvent-assisted nanochannel encapsulation of a natural phase change material in polystyrene hollow fibers for high-performance thermal energy storage with Rawan Ghaban, Dev Patel, Harmann Singh, Wenshuai Chen, and principal investigator Ping Lu at Long Island University in ACS Applied Energy Materials. Vol. 3, No. 10 (2020): 10089–10096.
• Rui Ting (Toby) Li
  • A double-blind test of blue-blocking filters on symptoms of digital eye strain with Nancy Kirsch and principal investigator Mark Rosenfield at the SUNY College of Optometry in Work. Vol. 65, No. 2 (2020): 343–348.

The International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) is a venue for researchers to present and share innovative contributions in the field of networking and closely related areas. Sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) INFOCOM is a top-ranked conference on networking in the research community. The 2021 conference lasted from May 10 to May 13. Like all events this academic year it was held virtually, which seems entirely appropriate for a conference on computer networks. Midwood was fortunate to have one student present at this event — the first ever.

Bintia Keita presented her research project "A controlled, reproducible, and extensible experiment for evaluating the impact of Tor latency". Bintia presented during the workshops on Computer and Networking Experimental Research using Testbeds (CNERT). This work was supported in part by the NYU Tandon School of Engineering Center for K12 STEM Education and was supervised by Mr. Ashutosh Srivastava, Dr. Fraida Fund, and Dr. Shivendra Panwar. You can also read about Bintia’s project on her lab’s blog.

Saturday, May 1 was the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Metropolitan New York Section of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) — the second to be presented in all virtual form. This year’s program consisted of 80 presentations highlighting research in mathematics, pedagogy, and technology usage. Presenters included mathematicians and industry professionals, graduate and undergraduate researchers, and high school students — including two from Midwood Science.

Anthony Nosoff and Taylor Leung presented their proposal "Using Generative Adversarial Networks for the Production of Common Core Algebra Questions". Anthony and Taylor are free agents looking for a machine learning platform to execute their project. If you are a computer scientist and would like to be a mentor to these students, please contact Midwood Science.

Student work published in print, on-line, or both in 2018.

• Beien Lin and Kathy Mania
  • Soil and microbial properties of green infrastructure Technosols in stormwater management systems with Maha Deeb, Peter M Groffman, Jessica L Joyner, George Lozefski, Anna Paltseva, Donna L Cao, John McLaughlin, Theodore Muth, Bharath Prithiviraj, Jordan Kerwin, and principal investigator Zhongqi (Joshua) Cheng at Brooklyn College in Ecological Engineering. Vol. 125 (2018): 68–75.

I was not aware when I started working for Dr. Alexander Greer that he'd soon be shipping me off to present at out-of-state chemistry conventions, but it came as a welcome surprise.

I started working at Dr. Greer's organic photochemistry lab at Brooklyn College in February of 2019. A late start, but a start nonetheless. In the lab, I work on the synthesis and characterization of fluorinated alkyl chain pterins. Essentially, we're trying to construct a photosensitizer using pterin and a fluorous tag that can produce singlet oxygen in a biphasic system. A biphasic system is a heterogeneous solution with an interface that mimics a cell membrane, and singlet oxygen is a reactive oxygen species notorious for disrupting basic cellular function. The production of singlet oxygen within this "cell" creates a means of studying the mobility of cytotoxins within living systems, a novel concept that we coin "fluorous biphasic photocatalysis".

"Marm" became part of my vocabulary in late March, when the word first started to flit around the lab. Time (and meetings) taught me that "Marm" was not actually a word but rather an acronym — as in the Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society — and apparently, I was supposed to go.

The American Chemical Society is a national organization that seeks to unite chemists in order to advance chemistry. The regional meetings are opportunities for chemists from all over the United States to come together and share their research, almost exclusively at the collegiate and professional level. This year, MARM was being held at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (a.k.a. UMBC). My professor told me that he wanted me to present my research at the convention, so I bought a blazer and off to Baltimore I went.

Sarah, a doctoral candidate presenting her own pterin research, and I were the only two representatives from Brooklyn College. I was the only high schooler at the event, which was just mildly terrifying. The convention attracted lots of local Baltimoreans, granting me the opportunity to present to some Johns Hopkins University professors — a real treat. Chatting with a few of the tech vendors that came out to market their newest products was another highlight; a gentleman from Magritek tried selling me on a benchtop NMR spectrometer, but I'm not really in the market right now.

Overall, presenting at MARM was an absolute honor. It pushed me out of my comfort zone just enough to create an experience that was equally as thrilling as it was rewarding. More importantly, I was able to gain much-valued exposure to the world of collegiate research and beyond. I'm grateful to Dr. Greer not only for trusting me enough to represent the lab, but for allowing me to take Midwood Science on a little field trip south of the (Brooklyn) border.

Written by Alyssa Kattan (Class of 2020)

The 90th meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA) was held at the Times Square Marriott Marquis Hotel over the weekend of February 28–March 2. Like most conventions, the EPA features guest speakers, workshops, and vendor booths relevant to professionals. The EPA also runs poster sessions where undergraduate and graduate students present their research projects.

This year Midwood was proud to send two teams of high school researchers to present alongside the college students. Seniors Basimah Zahid and Zuha Ahmed presented in the Clinical Psychology session. Juniors Serena Duran and Naffisat Atanda with their mentor Dr. Laura Egan presented in the Cognitive Psychology session.

The Eastern Psychological Association is the oldest of the regional psychological associations in the United States. Its purpose is to advance the science and profession of psychology through the dissemination of professional information.

• Basimah Zahid and Zuha Ahmed (Clinical Psychology)
  Project: Child maltreatment, adult attachment styles, and emotional dysregulation.
  Mentor: Dr. Sara Chiara Haden, Department of Psychology, Long Island University
• Serena Duran and Naffisat Atanda (Cognitive Psychology)
  Project: The impact of ambiguous threat on behavioral inhibition in social anxiety
  Mentor: Dr. Laura Egan, Department of Psychology, St. Francis College

Amna Aslam, a Midwood senior, and Iqra Nadeem, a Brooklyn College junior, were poster presenters at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2017 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC this past Sunday, April 2. Their project was entitled, "Higher nucleolar index of nucleolin as an indicator of aberrant cellular DNA damage response (DDR)". Additional authors included Midwood class of 2016's Rumsha Javed and Jingyuan Wang, Anna Kozlova, Danielle Gordon, Ruchama Steinberg, Rachele Dolce Rameau, and Xinyin Jiang of Brooklyn College. Dr. Anjana D. Saxena of Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center was the supervising scientist.

Student work published in print, on-line, or both in 2015. Kiara and Shadika graduated in 2014. Kahei graduated from Midwood in 2008 and was working with Dr. Rosenfield as student of SUNY Optometry when this experiment was conducted.

• Kiara Nuñez, Shadika Jahan, and Kahei Chan
  • Cognitive demand, digital screens and blink rate with principal investigator Mark Rosenfield at the SUNY College of Optometry in Computers in Human Behavior. Vol. 51, No. A (2015): 403–406.

Student work published in print, on-line, or both in 2014. Gabby was the first author of this paper, a position that is rare for high school students.

• Gabrielle Lynch
  • Attrition rates in neurosurgery residency: analysis of 1361 consecutive residents matched from 1990 to 1999 with Karina Nieto, Saumya Puthenveettil, Marleen Reyes, Michael Jureller, Jason H. Huang, M. Sean Grady, Odette A. Harris, Aruna Ganju, Isabelle M. Germano, Julie G. Pilitsis, Susan C. Pannullo, Deborah L. Benzil, Aviva Abosch, Sarah J. Fouke, and principal investigator Uzma Samadani at the New York University School of Medicine in the Journal of Neurosurgery. Vol. 122, No. 2 (2014): 237–481.

Midwood Science senior Zainab Iqbal was a presenter at the 2015 Annual Convention of the Society for Personality Assessment (SPA) on Thursday, March 5, 2015. This year’s SPA convention was held at the Marriott New York at the Brooklyn Bridge. Zainab’s project was entitled "PTSD Symptoms, Aggression, and Crime Exposure in a Sample of Young Adults". She was the only high school presenter at this year’s event. Special thanks to Zainab’s mentor Dr. Sara Chiara Haden of the Long Island University Department of Psychology for nominating Zainab as a presenter.

Student work published in print, on-line, or both in 2013. Francisca and Mercy graduated in 2011, Leo in 2013.

• Francisca Onyiuke and Mercy Palomeque
  • Determination of heart rate variability with an electronic stethoscope with Haroon Kamran, Isaac Naggar, Priya Chokshi, Louis Salciccioli, Mark Stewart and principal investigator Jason M. Lazar at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Clinical Autonomic Research. Vol. 23, No. 1 (2013): 41–47.
• Jian Cong (Leo) Liao
  • Mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) Preference and Behavioral Response to Animated Images of Conspecifics Altered in Their Color, Aspect Ratio, and Swimming Depth with Giovanni Polverino and Maurizio Porfiri at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University in PLOS ONE Vol. 8, No. 1 (2013): e54315.

Student work published in print, on-line, or both in 2012.

• Nicole Ng and Zhao Na Wang
  • On the inverse temperature transition and development of an entropic elastomeric force of the elastin mimetic peptide [LGGVG]_3,7 with Jiaxin Huang, Cheng Sun, Odingo Mitchell, and principal investigator Gregory S. Boutis of Brooklyn College in the Journal of Chemical Physics. Vol. 136, No. 8 (2012): 085101–09.

Student work published in print, on-line, or both in 2011.

• Kirill Grinberg
  • Multimode selective detection of mercury by chiroptical fluorescent sensors based on methionine/cysteine with Patrick Carney, Steven Lopez, Amanda Mickley, Wenyao Zhang, and principal investigator Zhaohua Dai of Pace University in Chirality. Vol. 23, No. 10 (2011): 916–920.

Student work published in print, on-line, or both in 2010.

• Grace Chan
  • was acknowledged by Dr. Ellen Hsu of SUNY Downstate Medical Center for her assistance in the research that lead to the paper Error-Prone DNA Repair Activity during Somatic Hypermutation in Shark B Lymphocytes with Catherine Zhu in the Journal of Immunology. Vol. 185, No. 9 (2010): 5336–5347.

Two students who graduated in 2009 coauthored academic works.

• Regina Gurevich
  • Computer Vision Syndrome: Accommodative and Vergence Facility with Elizabeth Wickware, Marc Lay, and principal investigator Mark Rosenfield of the SUNY College of Optometry in the Journal of Behavioral Optometry. Vol. 21, No. 5 (2010): 119–122.
• John Ferrara
  • The role of procalcitonin in the diagnosis of sepsis and patient assignment to medical intensive care with Arun Devakonda, Ester Engelman, Gitta Pancer, James Rucinski, Suhail Raoof, Liziamma George, Lawrence Melniker, and principal investigator Larry Bernstein in the Journal of Clinical Ligand Assay. Vol. 30, No. 3–4 (Fall–Winter 2007): 98–104. For his contribution to this paper, John received a Distinguished Abstract Award from the National Academy of Clinical Chemistry and was a presenter at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry.

Student work published in print, on-line, or presented at conferences in 2008.

• Na Xue
  • Rationally Designed Anti-HIV Peptides Containing Multifunctional Domains as Molecule Probes for Studying the Mechanisms of Action of the First and Second Generation HIV Fusion Inhibitors with Zhi Qi, Weiguo Shi, Chungen Pan, Weiguo Jing, Keliang Li, and principal investigator Shibo Jiang. Journal of Biological Chemistry. Vol. 283, No. 44 (2008): 30376–30384.
  • Novel anti-HIV peptides containing multiple copies of artificially designed heptad repeat motif with Weiguo Shi, Zhi Qi, Chungen Pan, Asim K. Debnath, Jiankun Qie, Keliang Liu, and principal investigator Shibo Jiang. Biochemical and biophysical research communications. Vol. 364, No. 4 (2008): 767–722.

Vernon Wu

• PNC-27 and PNC-28 anticancer peptides selectively kill cancer cells by pore formation dependent on the binding of these peptides to hdm2 in cancer cell membranes with Ehsun Sarafraz-Yazdi, Wilbur B. Bowne, Victor Adler, Kelley A. Sookraj, Hunaiz Patel, Vadim Shteyler, William Oxberry, Paul W. Brandt-Rauf, Robert L. Fine, Fred K. Friedman, Michael A. Zenilman, Josef Michl, and Matthew R. Pincus. Presented by Ehsun Sarafraz-Yazdi at the 2008 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in San Diego, California 14 April 2008.

Ali Bokhari

• Hypoxia and Elevated Interstitial Pressures Induce Tumor Cell Proliferation with Shigeki Kakunaga, Vamsi K. Kancherla, Gene R. Di Resta, and John H. Healey. Presented by Shigeki Kakunaga at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society in San Francisco, California March 2008.

Adil Billa

• was acknowledged by Dr. Mark Kobrak of Brooklyn College for his assistance in the research that lead to the paper Electrostatic Interactions of a Neutral Dipolar Solute with a Fused Salt: A New Model for Solvation in Ionic Liquids. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. Vol. 111, No. 18 (2007): 4755–4762.