32 Hudson Valley Students Named Regeneron Scholars For 2023

HUDSON VALLEY, NY — The top 300 scholars in the Regeneron Science Talent Search 2023 were announced Tuesday by the Society for Science.

There were 32 high school seniors from 12 Hudson Valley schools named as scholars.

Ossining High School and Scarsdale High School had the most scholars, with six each.

The Regeneron Science Talent Search is the nation's oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high school seniors.

The scholars were selected from 1,949 applications received from 627 high schools across 48 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and four other countries.

Scholars were chosen based on their outstanding research, leadership skills, community involvement, commitment to academics, creativity in asking scientific questions and exceptional promise as STEM leaders demonstrated through the submission of their original, independent research projects, essays and recommendations.

The 300 winners hail from 194 American and international high schools in 35 states and China.

All scholars will be awarded $2,000 each, and their schools will be awarded $2,000 for each enrolled scholar.

Here's the list of local winners and their projects, by high school:

Briarcliff High School

• Jason M Starr, 17, Project Title: An Agent-Based Model of COVID-19 Social Determinants of Health for Equitable Intervention Implementation

Byram Hills High School

• Rohini Elora Das, 17, Project Title: “Let’s Sleep On It”: Employing the Brain App To Measure the Impact of Sleep in Consolidating Prior Learning
• Remi Paige Matza, 18, Project Title: Revealing the Retinal Vascular Changes Caused by Age-Related Macular Degeneration
• Samantha Maya Milewicz, 17, Project Title: Selective Inhibition of Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 Attenuates Traumatic Brain Injury-Mediated Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption in a Novel Dynamic in vitro Model
• Lindsay Miller, 17, Project Title: Here Comes the Sun: The Impact of Chronotype and Seasonal Mood Variation on Pupillary Light Response Across the Circadian Cycle
• Samantha Schaevitz, 17, Project Title: Investigating the Use of Focused Ultrasound To Induce Blood-Brain Barrier Opening and Increase Drug Delivery Into a Murine Model of Primary High Grade Glioma Tumors

Fox Lane High School

• Jacob Elias Feldman, 17, Project Title: The Geometry and Reactivity of a Novel Zirconium-Centered Coordination Complex Supported by a bis-PN Ligand Framework

Hackley School

• Vihaan Dheer, 18, Project Title: The Optimization of Flux Trajectories for the Adiabatic Controlled-Z Gate on Split-Tunable Transmons

Harrison High School

• Ariella Maia Blackman, 18, Project Title: Developing a Model in situ Resource Utilization System for Oxygen-Sustaining Life Support and Launch Cost Reduction for Mars
• Lauren Davidson, 17, Project Title: The Effect of Copper Sulfate Concentration on Locomotor Ability and Lifespan of Alzheimer’s Model Drosophila melanogaster

Hastings High School

• Lucca Forrest, 18, Project Title: A Quantitative Regression and Volatility Analysis of the Relationship Between Economics and Political Stability

Horace Greeley High School

• Carly Googel, 17, Project Title: The Connection Between Stress and a Person’s Ability To Understand Their Own Mind and the Minds of Others
• Elvin Lo, 17, Project Title: An Empirical Evaluation of Zeroth-Order Optimization Methods on AI-Driven Molecule Optimization
• Julia Sun, 17, Project Title: Deregulated Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor (AhR) and Malignant Transformation
• Amy Yang, 17, Project Title: Image-Based Deep Learning on Air Quality Using a Nine-Layer Residual Neural Network

John Jay High School

• Cami Sandell, 18, Project Title: Can People Intentionally Wake Up From Sleep?

Ossining High School

• Samara Davis, 17, Project Title: Developing Environmental DNA Metabarcoding for the Detection of Elusive Vernal Pool-Breeding Amphibians
• Sarah Gardner, 17, Project Title: Co-Evolving Across Time: Black Holes as Regulators of Their Host Galaxy Properties
• AriAnnah Goodwin, 17, Project Title: Forecasting Visual Aura Characteristics: Perceived Stress Does Not Predict Temporal Aura Features in Adolescents
• Sarah Delia Jennings, 17, Project Title: Electron Transport Chain Acts as Potential Regulator of ER-Mitochondria Interactions
• Jesse Lynch, 17, Project Title: Aerobic Exercise Serves as an Effective and Immediate Treatment for Decreased Sound Tolerance in Adolescents
• Joseph Miguel Robertazzi, 17, Project Title: Migration and Magnetism: A Longitudinal Analysis Identifying the Relationship Between the South Atlantic Anomaly and Shifts in Migratory Bird Populations

Pelham Memorial High School

• Katie Brandler, 17, Project Title: The First Report of Marine Debris as a Dispersal Vector for Native and Introduced Species in the Temperate Northwest Atlantic Ocean
• Leah Sherbansky, 17, Project Title: Exploring the Relationship of SSTR2 Immunohistochemical and Textural Features to Neuroendocrine Tumor Grade
• Emma Van Praagh, 17, Project Title: Investigating Connections Between Sensorimotor Impairment and Resting-State Functional MRI of the Spinal Cord in Multiple Sclerosis

Scarsdale High School

• Cindy DeDianous, 17, Project Title: Alpha Retinal Ganglion Cell Dysfunction Precedes Vascular Dysfunction in a Mouse Model of Type 1 Diabetes
• Ali El Moselhy, 18, Project Title: Framework for Optimal Budget Allocation of HIV Intervention Policies
• Sameer Ullal Kini, 17, Project Title: Associations Between Pathophysiological Traits and Symptom Development in V30M and V122I Transthyretin Amyloidosis
• Bryan Shi, 17, Project Title: A Mutagenesis Study of the Parkinson’s Protein α-Synuclein Reveals An Unexpected Link Between Membrane Association and Serine-129 Phosphorylation
• Jaden Tepper, 17, Project Title: Creating a Novel Device To Improve the Evacuation of Subdural Hematomas
• Nicole Emma Zlotnikov, 18, Project Title: Asparagopsis taxiformis Reduces Methane Emissions and Alters Microbiome Composition in Organic Grazing Sheep

Yorktown High School

• Raka Bose, 17, Project Title: Using Artificial Intelligence for ICU Patient Triage