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(Reno, Nev.) –
Producing highly-qualified professionals, including scientists,
engineers and entrepreneurs is critical to maintaining economic
productivity in the United States. Public discourse on our nation’s
competitiveness tends to focus on the needs of low-performing students.
As important to our country’s future success are the most capable of
students, who are reaching high levels of academic excellence and, if
given the proper support, can help propel the U.S. forward in an
ever-competitive world.
Among these high achievers,
20 bright young people named as
2013 Davidson Fellows
exemplify the extraordinary work that can be accomplished by U.S.
students who are given opportunities to excel.
The Davidson Fellows program
offers $50,000, $25,000 and $10,000 college scholarships to students 18
or younger, who have created significant projects that have the
potential to benefit society in the fields of science, technology,
engineering, mathematics, literature, music and philosophy. The Davidson Fellows
scholarship program has provided nearly $5.3 million in scholarship funds
to 226 Fellows since its inception in 2001, and has been named one of
the most prestigious undergraduate scholarships by
U.S. News & World Report.
The Davidson Fellows is a program of the
Davidson Institute for Talent
Development, a national nonprofit organization headquartered in Reno,
Nev. that supports profoundly gifted youth.
“The Davidson Institute is
built on the belief that individuals, who have extraordinary
intelligence and talents, when encouraged and supported, can improve the
quality of life for us all,” said Bob Davidson, co-founder of the
Davidson Institute. “We are delighted to recognize this group of
resourceful and distinguished young people for their fascinating
projects – projects that have the potential to benefit society.”
Positive contributions to society made by the 2013 Davidson
Fellows include:
- Classifying fusion categories of rank 4.
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Developing an affordable arsenic water filter and test that is
exponentially cheaper than current methods.
- Developing
Celloidosomes®, a cell self-assembly process for bioengineering
3-dimensional tissues in a core-shell structure.
- Building a
multi-mode 24/7 generator that is powered by any heat source –
stove, flame, sun, etc
- Creating a device that can simultaneously
produce electricity and hydrogen gas from wastewater using anaerobic
bacteria.
- Developing miRNA prognostic signatures as a diagnostic
tool for breast cancer.
- Assembling musical pieces representing
the evolution of 20th century jazz and its diversity as a global
musical genre.
The 2013 Davidson Fellows Award Ceremony is scheduled for
Sat., Sept. 28 in Washington, D.C. with all scholarship recipients attending.
2013 Davidson Fellow Laureates
$50,000 Scholarships
- Miss
Hannah Larson, 18, Eugene,
Ore.; Classification of Some Fusion
Categories of Rank 4
- Miss
Samantha Marquez, 18,
Midlothian, Va.; Celloidosomes®: A
New Paradigm in the Bottom-up Assembly of Multicellular
Architectures
2013 Davidson Fellows
$25,000 Scholarships
- Miss
Ankita Ghoshal, 18, Austin,
Texas; Sustainable 100w Portable
Generators for 24/7/365 Power Demand
- Mr.
Coleman Hughes, 17, Montclair,
N.J.; The Rhythm of Free Expression: Honoring the Great Jazz
Masters
Mr. Harrison Li, 15, Dix Hills, N.Y.;
Determining Interannual and Spatial Trends in
Convective Frequency over the Northeastern United States Based on
Reanalysis of Convective Parameters
- Miss
Aashna Mago, 17, Newtown, Pa.;
A Novel EZH2 Histone
Methyltransferase Inhibitor: Potential Advancement in Epigenetic
Cancer Therapy
- Miss
Natalie Ng, 17, Cupertino,
Calif.; MicroRNA Prognostic
Signatures and Prediction Models for Distant Metastasis-Free
Survival (DMFS) in Breast Cancer
- Miss
Kailee Pedersen, 17, Lincoln,
Neb.; The Transliteration of Flesh
- Miss
Lilia Popova, 18, Ann Arbor,
Mich.; Elucidating Environmental and
Genetic Mechanisms of Magnetically Altered Plant Growth
- Mr. Thabit
Pulak, 17, Richardson, Texas; Home-based Arsenic
Bio-sane Water Filter and Rapid Arsenic Water Test using
Nanotechnology
- Mr.
David Steinberg, 16, Rancho
Palos Verdes, Calif.; The Pre-Shortzian
Puzzle Project
$10,000 Scholarships
- Mr. Joshua
Brakensiek, 17, Phoenix, Ariz.; Bounds on the Size of
Sound Monotone Switching Networks Accepting Permutation Sets of
Directed Trees
- Mr.
Alec Brenner, 17, McLean, Va.;
Viscoelastic Modeling of Tidal
Heating in Terrestrial Exoplanets
- Mr. Michael
Janner, 17, Redlands, Calif.; Magnetic Manipulation of
Nanoscale Mirrors and Photonic Crystals
- Mr.
Ajay Krishnan, 17, Portland,
Ore.; Optimizing the Microbial Fuel
Cell-Microbial Electrolysis Cell Coupled System for Sustainable
Hydrogen Gas Production, Electricity Generation, and Improved
Wastewater Treatment
- Mr. William
Kuszmaul, 17, Lexington, Mass.; Equivalence Classes of
Permutations Created Under Pattern-Replacement Relations
- Miss Emily
Lipstein, 17, Port Washington, N.Y.; An Analysis of the
Genetic Variation of Monachus monachus and Its Implications for
Conservation
- Miss Jiayi
Peng, 18, Chappaqua, N.Y.; A Cellular Automaton Model
for Critical Dynamics in Neuronal Networks
- Mr.
Vinay Sriram, 17,
Boyds, Md.;
Quantitative Modeling of Processing Cost and Energy Consumption for
Cryptographically Enhanced Secure Internet Routing Protocol
- Mr. Vaibhav
Vavilala, 18, Indianapolis, Ind.; Neural Networks:
Raising the Storage Capacity
About the Davidson Institute
Founded by Bob and Jan Davidson in 1999, the Davidson Institute for
Talent Development recognizes, nurtures and supports profoundly
intelligent young people, and provides opportunities for them to develop
their talents to make a positive difference. For more information about the 2013 Davidson Fellows, please visit
www.DavidsonGifted.org/Fellows.
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Davidson Fellows Press
Room.
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Coordinate interview opportunities with the Davidson Fellows and their
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