Saturday, February 1, 2020 was the 24th Annual Research Poster Session for High School Students at St. Joseph's College New York. This event is open to all high school students in any field of scientific research and is sponsored by the Chemical Education Committee of the New York Section of the American Chemical Society. Midwood Science students collected most of the awards this year — 2 first place awards, 1 second place award, and 7 honorable mentions. Brooklyn's Edward R. Murrow High School won the other second place award. Hudson County, New Jersey's Jose Marti STEM Academy and High Tech High School won 3 and 2 honorable mentions, respectively. Congratulations all around.
First Place
- Tristan Ene
Project: The effectiveness of DEP water quality testing in Jamaica Bay
Mentor: Dr. Brett Branco, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Brooklyn College - Nadzeya Fliaha
Project: Probing the meta-magnetic order using magnetocaloric data and data analysis
Mentor: Dr. Karl Sandeman, Department of Physics, Brooklyn College
Second Place
- Anum Jabeen
Project: Deep sequencing anemone mitogenomes: Understanding evolutionary relationships
Mentor: Dr. Mercer Brugler, Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History
Honorable Mention
- Naffisat Atanda and Serena Duran
Project: The relationship between academic performance and social anxiety in college students
Mentor: Dr. Laura Egan, Department of Psychology, St. Francis College - Oliwia Dankiw and Blessin McFarlane
Project: Need for speed: Decomposition rates of conventional plastics versus bioplastics
Mentor: Dr. Zhongqi (Joshua) Cheng, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Brooklyn College - Daniel Drozdov and Victoria Habbchy
Project: Expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and production of nitric oxide (NO) by human monocytes after freezing and storage
Mentor: Dr. Maja Nowakowski, Department of Pathology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center - Kelly Guan and Jessica Zheng
Project: Analyzing the effects of media multitasking on academic performance for disordered and non-disordered adolescents
Mentor: Dr. Sung Hun Kim, Department of Psychology, St. Francis College - Lameya Rahman
Project: Effect of iron on Neisseria gonorrhea's Type IV pili (TFp)
Mentor: Dr. Nicolas Biais, Department of Biology, Brooklyn College - Defne Sener
Project: Biofuels from brown grease
Mentor: Dr. Lawrence Pratt, Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, Medgar Evers College - Gabriella Shalumov
Project: The effect of naturalistic visual stimuli on axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) motor behavior
Mentor: Dr. Frank Grasso, Department of Psychology, Brooklyn College
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