Yuval Calev – Ward Melville High School, East Setauket, NY

Project: Language Perception, Production, and Memory: A Comparison of Older and Younger Adults

For his project, Yuval, 17, studied the relationship between memory and speech process and perception, which may help study memory deterioration. Yuval tested his research on people around him and found that production and perception are related to each other and to age. He plays violin and is a varsity tennis player.

Eric Brooks – George W. Hewlett High School, Hewlett, NY

Project: Transition from Indolent to Metastatic Prostate Cancer Characterized Through the Health Disparity between African American and Caucasian American Men

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among males, and while many patients live their entire lives with cancer that does not change or spread, when it does metastasize, the result can be lethal. Erik, 16, studied prostate cancer genomics to begin identifying why indolent disease becomes metastic, which will help scientists determine whether or not uncomfortable treatments are necessary early on. Eric is also captain of the Math Olympiads, the Mock Trial Team and is both news editor of his school newspaper and plays cello in his school’s chamber orchestra.

Tags: education, Eric Brooks, STEM, STS Finalists, Yuval Calev

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 at 1:54 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.