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Kennedy High School senior Darwin Shen had his thesis on Alzheimer’s disease accepted recently by the Long Island Science and Humanities Symposium at SUNY Stony Brook.
Senior joins fight against Alzheimer’s
Kennedy High School senior Darwin Shen spent last summer staring into a microscope at the New York University School of Medicine, counting hundreds of neurons encased in 20 slides of mouse brain tissue. His objective: Figure out whether immunogens injected into the mice before they died were able to stop the neural loss caused by Alzheimer’s disease. more
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Elise Meade, seated, recently took first place in the Mathematical Science division at the Long Island Science and Engineering Fair, earning her a trip to Los Angeles to compete in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. She was joined by one of her advisers at Calhoun High School, Kim Laskarides.
Senior’s math project adds up to success
In many ways, Calhoun High School senior Elise Meade is your typical teen. The 17-year-old played varsity soccer last fall. She now competes on the varsity badminton team and plays the clarinet in Calhoun’s wind ensemble. On weekends, she referees youth soccer games. more
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Mepham High School junior Bilal Siddiqui recently earned first place in the Microbiology category at the Long Island Science and Engineering Fair. Joining him to celebrate his win were, from left, Mepham Principal Michael Harrington, science research adviser Dr. David Kommor and Science Department Chairman Dr. Patrick Mannion.
Mepham junior is a rising star in science research
Bilal Siddiqui, who is all of 17, began work on a research project aimed at understanding how cancer cells hijack the body’s own enzymes in order to metastasize, or spread, when he was still a sophomore at Mepham High School last year. more
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Three Kennedy High School seniors did well at the recent Long Island Science and Engineering Fair. They were, from left, Greg Manis, Amanda Lindner and Matthew Gallitto. Manis took first place, which earned him a trip to California to compete in the International Science and Engineering Fair.
Kennedy researchers score big at L.I. science fair
Kennedy senior Greg Manis describes himself as “chief geek” of the high school’s science club. To begin to understand Manis’s world, you probably have to be one of the club’s assistant geeks. more
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Calhoun High School senior Jenny Wu was recently named an Intel Science Talent Search semifinalist. She was pictured here with her research mentors, Kimberlie Lascarides, Jennifer Pefanis and Nick Pappas.
Calhoun senior realizes research success –– again
Calhoun High School senior Jenny Wu is on quite the roll. In the fall, she was named a semifinalist in the prestigious Siemens Westinghouse Science and Technology Competition. Then, in December, she learned that she had been accepted to her “dream school” –– Yale University. This past week, she received word that she was named a semifinalist in the Intel Science Talent Search. more
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Kennedy High School senior Josh Cohen was recently named an Intel Science Talent Search semifinalist. He was joined here by Kennedy research mentor Barbi Frank.
Kennedy senior scores Intel win
Kennedy High School senior Josh Cohen spent the summer of 2010 peering into a high-powered microscope at SUNY Stony Brook to study aerosols –– solids and liquids suspended inside gas molecules that were so small they were imperceptible to the human eye. more
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Jenny Wu, Calhoun High School’s salutatorian for the class of 2011, was recently named a semifinalist in the annual Siemens Westinghouse Science and Technology Competition.
Calhoun senior named Siemens Westinghouse semifinalist
Calhoun High School senior Jenny Wu understands pain. As a volunteer in the emergency room at Mercy Medical Center in Rockville Centre, the 17-year-old has seen the agony of injury and disease –– and, she said, she wants to help. more
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Make a spooky graveyard pie for your Halloween gathering.
Halloween thrills and chills at home and in the neighborhood
Gather up your little goblins, conjure up some creative costumes and prepare some scary, scrumptious sweets for a great ghostly gathering. Involve everyone in fun-to-make (and to eat) Halloween recipes that are more
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Being green: The Center for Science Teaching and Learning, in Rockville Centre, encourages visitors to respect the environment at Earth-Fest on Saturday.
Celebrating Arbor Day at Earth Month festivals around L.I.
As nature comes alive with all the grandeur of spring, Arbor Day beckons: a reminder of the importance of trees. “Earth Month” culminates with activities throughout the area that bring out the best of our natural world, for everyone to share. more
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Kennedy High School had the work of four researchers accepted by the Long Island Junior Science and Humanities Symposium at Stony Brook University recently. They were Daniel Bornstein, left, Jeremy Roberts, third from left, Morgan Drucker and Stephanie Sager, who were joined by one of their research mentors, Advanced Placement biology teacher Barbi Frank.
Science students clean up at symposium
Ninety of Long Island's top science and mathematics students recently convened at SUNY Stony Brook's Charles B. Wang Center to compete in the prestigious Long Island Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, and in the crowd were five -- count 'em, five -- young Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District researchers, all seniors -- four from Kennedy High School and one from Calhoun. more
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