Great Neck Students Named Intel Semifinalists

Four Great Neck students were among 43 Long Island high school seniors named semifinalists in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search.

Great Neck North’s Monica Beeferman, 18, and Jessy Lin, 17, as well as Great Neck South’s Robbin Jang, 17, and Jay Zussman, 17 got the news on Wednesday that they were in an elite pool of 300 students nationwide to be selected as semifinalists.

From this pool, 40 finalists are then invited to Washington, D.C,. in March to participate in final judging, display their work to the public, meet with notable scientists, and compete for three top awards of $150,000 each.

Beeferman’s research project is entitled ”Intracellular Crosstalk in Protein Aggregation of E. coli Cells: An Examination of the Proteostasis Network.” Lin’s is “Top-Down and Bottom-Up Interaction in Spoken Word Recognition.” Jang’s is Synthesis and Observations of Novel Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase Inhibitors: Precursors to Bivalent Compounds.” Zussman’s is “Zip1 C-terminal Phosphorylation Promotes Zip1-Sgs1 Interaction in Meiotic Cells.”

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