(Brooklyn, NY—February 7, 2015) High Tech students presented
their research at XIX Poster Session of the New York Section of the American
Chemical Society at St. Joseph’s College, where students from the five boroughs
and New Jersey took part in the contest judged by imminent scientists,
announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech High School.
Students included Bayonne’s Sara
Bendaoud, Jessica Driscoll, George Iskander, Kapil Kanakaraj, Hayoung Park, and
Paulina Yaniak; Anisha Mahat of Harrison; Jersey City resident Meichin Ong; and
Vivian Chaca and Emma Spahic of Secaucus,
While judges elaborated on the scores,
students attended a keynote address by Dr. Carlo Yuvienco from the Physical
Sciences Department at St. Joseph’s College on “Protein-based Drug Delivery
Agents.” This entertaining presentation,
accompanied by a demonstration of the effects of solubility and filtration, proved
very stimulating that students Mahat and Iskander volunteered their assistance
in the presentation.
Also, Yaniak’s poster on “Bacterial
Growth” witnessed not three, but six judges.
One judge invited Yaniak to do research at his lab at St. Peter’s College
as a summer scholar. Mahat talked about the
“Effect of Human Prostate Cancer Cells Presence on Mouse Osteocyte Sclerostin
Expression.” Ong presented the results of her YSAP-funded research on “Oil
Bioremediation.” Fellow YSAP grant
recipients Iskander and Kanakaraj offered a poster on “Sonoluminescence.” Meanwhile, Spahic and Chaca presented their
research on “Bacterial Transformation.” Park
and Bendaoud, also YSAP grant recipients, on “The Role of Convention Currents
in the Mpemba Effect” earned Honorable Mention.
