2017 Science Day Winners
High School Division
First Place
Aushna Saleem (Midwood High School)—Listen to Me! Older Monk Parakeets Vocalize Significantly More Than Young in Social Situations
Andrew G. Fulmer and Associate Professor Frank W. Grasso (Brooklyn College)
Second Place
Nomon Mohammad (Midwood High School)—Anthraquinone as an Effective Electrolyte for Redox Flow Batteries
Domenec Paterno and Associate Professor Sophia Suarez (Brooklyn College)
Third Place
Jasleen Kuar (Midwood High School)—Evaluating Efficient Methods for Determining Bio-accessible Lead
Sara Egendorf (Brooklyn College)
Undergraduate Division
First Place
Irfa Kafayat, Department of Psychology—Drawing an Imaginary World: The Effects on Short-term Mood Improvement in Children
Assistant Professor Jennifer Drake
Second Place
Katherine Chiu, Department of Biology—Comparative Starch Metabolism for Two Green Algae
Professor Juergen Polle
and
Victor M. Flores, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences—Pilot Study: Arsenic (As) and Cadmium (Cd) Distribution in Metallurgic Operation Site, Argonomic and Urbic Gounds, Santo Amario, Salvador-Bahia, Brazil
Marcela R. Bomfim, Maria Conceico, and Jorge A. Gonzagas (Department of Agriculture, Environment and Biology, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB), Cruz das Almas, Brazil)
Third Place
Adriana Cushnie, Department of Biology—Identifying Cadherin 9 Binding Partners and Their Role in Synapse Formation
Mathew Taylor, Ranauk Basu, and Dr. Megan Williams, University of Utah
Graduate Division
First Place
Steven G. Volz, Department of Psychology—Evidence for Allocentric CUE Use in Navigating Fiddler Crabs (UCA Pugilator)
Associate Professor Frank W. Grasso, Brooklyn College
Second Place
Steven Vallone, Department of Physics—Effect of Pressure on Spin Crossover Compounds for Barocalorics
Antonio M. dos Santos and, Jamie Molaison (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee), Malcolm Halcrow (School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom) and Associate Professor Karl Sandeman
Third Place
Mikaela Murph, Department of Biology—Structural and Functional Analysis of Centrosomal Protein SPD-2
Assistant Professor Mara Schvarzstein and Associate Professor Shaneen Singh
