Titles of Some of the Past Student Research Papers

at the Northern New England JSHS (NNE) and Southern New England JSHS (SNE)

SNE 2009 Bayesian Inference of Metazoan Phylogeny. Mark Chonofsky, Lexington High School, Lexington, MA. Winner of the $2,000 U.S. Army/Navy/Air Force Scholarship award.

SNE 2009 Mylanta^®, Alka-Seltzer^® or Tums^®? Use of Halogen Scavengers to Prevent Chlorine Degradation of Swimwear. Shweta Kitchloo, North Attleboro High School, North Attleboro, MA. Winner of the $1,500 U.S. Army/Navy/Air Force Scholarship award.

NNE 2009 Parallel Combinatorial Chemical Synthesis using Single-layer Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Microfluidic Devices. Joseph Dexter, Green Mountain Union High School, Chester, VT. Winner of the $2,000 U.S. Army/Navy/Air Force Scholarship award.

NNE 2009 GPU-MDR: Using GP-GPU Computation for Epistasis Analysis in Human Genetics. Nicholas Sinnott-Armstrong, Hanover High School, Hanover, NH. Winner of the $1,500 U.S. Army/Navy/Air Force Scholarship award.

NNE 2008 Canning Low Calorie Pears: Color and Texture Considerations. Casey Dropkin, Plymouth Regional High School, Plymouth, NH. Winner of the $2,000 U.S. Army/Navy/Air Force Scholarship award.

NNE 2008 Winter Ranges of Birds in New Hampshire; Changes in the Past Two Decades. Danielle Aube, Plymouth Regional High School, Plymouth, NH. Winner of the $1,500 U.S. Army/Navy/Air Force Scholarship award.

NNE 2008 The Effects of Camptothecin, Etoposide, and Paclitaxel on MB231 and MCF7 cell lines with the expression of the Notch Protein. Erin Coonahan, Greely High School, Cumberland, ME. Winner of the $1,000 U.S. Army/Navy/Air Force Scholarship award.

NNE 2007 Analysis of Estrogen Receptor Agonists in Maine Lakes. Jennifer Rowe, Bangor High School, Bangor, ME. Winner of the 2007 regional $2,000 U.S. Army/Navy/Air Force Scholarship award.

NNE 2007 Effects of codon bias and choice of regulatory small subunit on expression of zebrafish calpain activity in E. coli. Mara Shapero, Bangor High School, Bangor, ME. Winner of the 2007 regional $1,500 U.S. Army/Navy/Air Force Scholarship award.

NNE 2007 Thigmomorphogensis in Pisum Tendril Development. Nikola Champlin, Greely High School, Cumberland, ME. Winner of the 2007 regional $1,000 U.S. Army/Navy/Air Force Scholarship award.

NNE 2006 A Trophic Study of Lake Environments and Soil Ecology. Chloe Shields, Greely High School, Cumberland, ME. Winner of the 2006 regional $2,000 U.S. Army/Navy/Air Force Scholarship award.

NNE 2006 The Effect of Water Held in Nalgene Bottles That Have Been Washed with Harsh Detergents in a Dishwasher on the Growth of Ryegrass. Amanda Campbell,Wiscasset High School, Wiscasset, ME. Winner of the 2006 $300 CEPS/COLSA Meritorious Cash Award.

NNE 2005 Modeling the Role of Surface Processes in Nitric Oxide Detection on WO3 Sensors. Jue Wang, Bangor High School, Bangor, ME. Winner of the 2005 regional $1,500 U.S. Army/Navy/Air Force Scholarship award and a National third place winner of $2000 U.S. Army/Navy/Air Force Scholarship.

NNE 2005 CCD Photometry of Asteroid Light Curves. Morgan MacLeod, Greely High School, Cumberland, ME. Winner of the 2005 regional $1,000 U.S. Army/Navy/Air Force Scholarship award and a National first place winner of a $16,000 U.S. Army/Navy/Air Force Scholarship.