2013 High School Poster Session
The annual poster competition for high school students, sponsored jointly by the New York Section of the American Chemical Society and St. Joseph’s College, took place on February 2 on the Brooklyn Campus. There were 92 poster presentations and 102 participants in this year’s event, the most in the event's history. Students from seven area highs schools attended and the quality of the research was better than ever.
Keynote Address
"Synthesis of Novel Materials and Application in Optics and Electronics"Glen R. Kowach, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
The City College of New York
First Place
Precious Martinez, Union City High School
Year Two of Developing Robotic Technology to Make Handicap Independent
Kevin Romero, Union City High School
Photochemical Oxidation of Eugenol Absorbed on Rutile
Second Place
Ron Baazov, Midwood High School
Interaction of Lupus-Inducing Drugs With Hydrogen Peroxide and Development of a Lupus Test
Prianka Zaman, Midwood High School
The Function of Gamma/Delta T Cells
Honorable Mention
Angelica Alvarado, High Tech High School
Music and Spatial-Temporal Reasoning
Christopher Ayala, Midwood High School
Encoding Information with Light's Angular Momentum
Heidi De Leon, Union City High School
Expression of EphA3 Protein
Ryan Fraser, Midwood High School
Immobilization of Photosystem II Core Complexes onto Titanium Dioxide Surfaces
Ashley Giannita, Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics
The Role of Cell Signaling in Cytoskeleton of Dictyostelium Discoideum and its Implication on Cancer Metastasis
Karina Guaman, Union City High School
Evaluating the Inhibitory Effects of Vitamin E in Breast Cancer
Azka Javaid, James Madison High School
Regeneration of Interneuromast Cells Following Laser Ablation in Zebrafish
Arleni Liriano, Union City High School
Methods to Improve the Efficiency of Cadmium Telluride Thin-Film Solar Cells
Rasidha Rahman, Queens High School for the Sciences
Synthesis and Study of Photochemical Reactivity of a New Phototrigger for Drug Delivery
Syeda Rasool, Midwood High School
The Effect of Low-Dose Lead Exposure on Cortical Bone Mineral Properties of Young C57/BL6 Female Mice
Kaylee Saltos, Union City High School
Biomimetic Nanofibers Regulate Cellular Behavior in Dermal Tissue Engineering
Krystel Velez, Union City High School
Finding New Inhibitors Of Cytochrome P450
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more information
Contact Jill Rehmann, Ph.D. at jrehmann@sjcny.edu for more information (include H.S. Poster Session in the subject line) or mail your request to Dr. Jill Rehmann, St. Joseph's College, 245 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205-3688.


















