East Student Takes Inaugural Stony Brook University Scholarship

A Smithtown High School East student is the first ever recipient of the Stony Brook Orthopaedic Musculoskeletal Scholarship.

Taylor Trentadue was awarded the scholarship and has also been invited to Stony Brook University to present research she conducted at the Sports Medicine Symposium taking place May 11. The invitation, extended by the university and the school's Department of Orthopaedics, was given for a project she put together titled “The Correlation Between The Frequency of Cell Phone Text Messaging and The Occurrence of Symptoms of Orthopaedic Trauma to Joints of The Hand."

“Taylor analyzed the text messaging habits of adolescents and the incidence of precursor, and sometime overt, symptoms of hand trauma. In this decade of quickly evolving hand-held devices, it will be important to safeguard our hands and how we use this technology," said Zeitlin Trinkle, who was Trentadue's mentor for the project.

Trentadue was also invited to present her research at the Orthopaedic Surgery Resident Research Day on June 20.