有“中学生诺奖”之称、全美历史最悠久、最负盛名的科创赛事再生元科学天才奖STS Top40获奖名单公布！
STS参赛门槛高、获奖难度大，每年都有超50%的STS TOP300入围者被哈耶普斯麻录取。作为含金量更高的Top40，获奖者更是藤校眼中的香饽饽！
今年共有来自美国48个州、华盛顿特区、波多黎各和其他四个国家的627所高中的1949名学生参与了本届STS，而今年荣获To40的学生分布在美国14个州的34所学校，他们还将在之后的决赛中争夺总数超过180万美元的奖金。
下面就一起来看看2022-23 STS Top40名单吧！
以下获奖名单来源于STS官网：
https://www.societyforscience.org/regeneron-sts/2023-finalists/
22-23 Regeneron STS Top40
Kamisi Adetunji
School: North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham, NC
Project Title: Modifying Naturally Sourced Flavonoids for Increased Antioxidant Capacity and Antisickling Activity
Ariella Maia Blackman
School: Harrison High School, Harrison, NY
Project Title: Developing a Model in situ Resource Utilization System for Oxygen-Sustaining Life Support and Launch Cost Reduction for Mars
Angela Chen
School: North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham, NC
Project Title: Developing Wildfire Risk and Burn Area Prediction Models Using Comprehensive Environmental Variables for California With Machine Learning
Corona Chen
School: The University of Chicago Laboratory High School, Chicago, IL
Project Title: Understanding Incidental Microbial Communities Inside Ordinary Concrete Toward Decarbonization
Madeleine de Belloy
School: Lycée Français de San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Project Title: Computing the Mosaic Number of Reduced and Non-Reduced Projections of Knots
Cindy DeDianous
School: Scarsdale High School, Scarsdale, NY
Project Title: Alpha Retinal Ganglion Cell Dysfunction Precedes Vascular Dysfunction in a Mouse Model of Type 1 Diabetes
August Deer
School: Geffen Academy at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Project Title: On Multi-Round Privacy in Federated Learning
Angie Fogarty
School: Greenwich High School, Greenwich, CT
Project Title: Rapid, Visual Detection of Illicit Substances in a Variety of Environments via Competitive, Amine-Responsive Fluorophores
Ambika Grover
School: Greenwich High School, Greenwich, CT
Project Title: Design of a Novel, Dual-Functioning, Tissue Plasminogen Activator and Factor XI-Inhibiting Anticoagulant Therapeutic for Rapid Ischemic Stroke Treatment
Hannah Guan
School: BASIS San Antonio Shavano Campus, San Antonio, TX
Project Title: Multi-Dimensional Interpretable Interaction Network (MDiiN) for Modeling Aging Health and Mortality
Fenghuan (Linda) He
School: Commonwealth School, Boston, MA
Project Title: The Impact of Primordial Black Holes on Exoplanet Systems
Michelle Hua
School: Cranbrook Kingswood School, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Project Title: Novel Self-Supervised Deep Neural Networks for 3D Human Shape and Motion Reconstruction From a Monocular Video
Linden Chi James
School: North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham, NC
Project Title: Thyroid Hormone Treatment of Neurological Trauma Using the Model Galleria mellonella
Thaddaeus Kiker
School: Sunny Hills High School, Fullerton, CA
Project Title: QPOML: Leveraging Machine Learning and Game Theory To Detect and Characterize Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in X-Ray Binaries
Elane Kim
School: Stanford University Online High School, Redwood City, CA
Project Title: Effects of Chemotherapy on the Taste Stem Cell Microenvironment
Emily Kim
School: Jericho Senior High School, Jericho, NY
Project Title: The Dual Roles of Activated Carbon as an Adsorbent and Photocatalyst for Azo Dye Removal
Evan Kim
School: Tesla STEM High School, Redmond, WA
Project Title: ScGAN: A Generative Adversarial Network To Predict Hypothetical Superconductors
Ryan Lee
School: Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, CA
Project Title: Mitochondrial Fission Regulates Structural Plasticity and Synapse Maintenance in Circadian Pacemaker Neurons
Miah Christina Margiano
School: Saint Anthony’s High School, Melville, NY
Project Title: Potential Influence of LncRNAs in Tumor Regression: An Analysis of Prognostic LncRNAs in Neuroblastoma
Marissa Lilianna Martinez
School: Monte Vista High School, Monte Vista, CO
Project Title: A Habitat Assessment Protocol To Determine Suitability for Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Occupancy in the Northern Rio Grande Watershed
Samantha Maya Milewicz
School: Byram Hills High School, Armonk, NY
Project Title: Selective Inhibition of Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 Attenuates Traumatic Brain Injury-Mediated Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption in a Novel Dynamic in vitro Model
Max Misterka
School: Misterka Homeschool, Harrisonburg, VA
Project Title: A Generalization of ?-Calculus Using Formal Group Laws
Neel Moudgal
School: Saline High School, Saline, MI
Project Title: Using Unassigned NMR Chemical Shifts To Model RNA Secondary Structure
Ishika Nag
School: Oviedo High School, Oviedo, FL
Project Title: Development of an Engineered Face Mask With Optimized Nanoparticle Layering for Filtration of Air Pollutants and Viral Pathogens
Lavanya Natarajan
School: Viera High School, Viera, FL
Project Title: A Prescriptive IoT Solution To Detect and Mitigate Fugitive Methane Gas in Landfills via a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System
Oziomachukwu Chidubem Obi
School: North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham, NC
Project Title: Determining if a Combination of Treatments Ibudilast and Interleukin 4 Can Treat or Prevent Multiple Sclerosis Using Model Organism Lumbricus terrestris
Emily Ocasio
School: New School of Northern Virginia, Fairfax, VA
Project Title: Demographic Correlates of Humanizing Language in Media Coverage of Crime: Evidence From The Boston Globe, 1976-84
Siddhu Pachipala
School: The Woodlands College Park High School, The Woodlands, TX
Project Title: SuiSensor: A Novel, Low-Cost Machine Learning System for Real-Time Suicide Risk Identification and Treatment Optimization via Computational Linguistics
Joseph Miguel Robertazzi
School: Ossining High School, Ossining, NY
Project Title: Migration and Magnetism: A Longitudinal Analysis Identifying the Relationship Between the South Atlantic Anomaly and Shifts in Migratory Bird Populations
Joshua Logan Shunk
School: Perry High School, Gilbert, AZ
Project Title: Neuron-Specific Dropout: A Deterministic Regularization Technique To Prevent Neural Networks From Overfitting and Reduce Dependence on Large Training Samples
Diego Emilio Suchenski Loustaunau
School: Massachusetts Academy of Math & Science, Worcester, MA
Project Title: In silico Design of Novel 2’FANA Oligonucleotides To Inhibit APOBEC3G
Jason Christopher Wang
School: Brentwood High School, Brentwood, TN
Project Title: Differential Effects of Oncogenic Ras Isoforms on Epithelia
Nolan Wen
School: American Heritage School Boca-Delray, Delray Beach, FL
Project Title: Development and Characterization of a Novel Laponite-Enhanced Tannic Acid-Based Hydrogel
Vivian Wu
School: Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, CA
Project Title: Evaluating the Impact of the Varroacide Formic Acid on Honeybee Foraging Performance
Ellen Xu
School: Del Norte High School, San Diego, CA
Project Title: A Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Kawasaki Disease Diagnosis
Jeffrey Xu
School: Lowell High School, San Francisco, CA
Project Title: Characterizing Structure-Function Relationships in the CCR6/CCL20 Receptor-Ligand Pair
Ethan Zhou
School: McLean High School, Mclean, VA
Project Title: Online Learning of Smooth Functions
Kevin Zhu
School: Jericho Senior High School, Jericho, NY
Project Title: Recurrent Repeat Contractions and Micro-Changing Short Tandem Repeats: Investigating Underrepresented Factors of Polymorphism in Human Cancers
Sally Zhu
School: The Harker School, San Jose, CA
Project Title: On the Smoothness and Regularity of the Chess Billiard Flow and the Poincaré Problem
Sophie Zhu
School: Williamsville East High School, East Amherst, NY
Project Title: Factorizations in Evaluation Monoids of Laurent Semirings
今年3月8-15日将迎来STS决赛周，Top40获奖者将进一步角逐Top10，争夺高额奖金和国际荣誉！
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