Junior Noble Prize!!!

The Science Talent Search (STS) is America’s oldest and most prestigious science research competition for high school seniors. Since 1942, first in partnership with Westinghouse and since 1998 with Intel, the competition has provided a national stage for America’s best and brightest young scientists to present original research to nationally recognized professional scientists.

Out of the 40 finalists in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search 2009 competition, eight are desis (many seem to be South Indians).

Its a great pleasure for us to highlight the fact that if given chance our students can also prove their talent...Indian-Americans constitute less than 1% of the U.S. population (306 million) but account for 20% of the Intel Science Talent Search 2009 finalists.

Whether they will be patriotic to India or America is another issue to consider but we need to appreciate their marvallous efforts as they proved their mettle of Indian origin. CONGRATS!!!

Isnt it a Great Job done !!! Maybe we can get an Indian origin future US President too??!!

Here is the list of eight Indians among the finalists and their projects are:

* Smitha Ramakrishna - Chandler (AZ)Analysis of the Chemical and Biological Degradation of Sucralose in Synthetic Wastewater


* Aniruddha Sandeep Deshmukh - Cupertino (CA)Revitalizing the Coastal Sage Scrub Ecosystem in Response to Cyanide Accumulation from High Intensity Wildfires

* Nilesh Truipuraneni - Fresno (CA)A Relativistic Generalization of the Navier-Stokes Equations to Quark-Gluon Plasmas

* Nitish Lakhanpal - Irvine (CA)An Investigation into the Folding of Beta Structures in a Class of Pathologically-Relevant Proteins: Computational Prediction of Secondary and Super-Secondary Structure from Primary Amino Acid Sequence

* Aditya Rajagopalan - Glastonbury (CT)Modeling Synergistic Cellulolytic-Hemicellulolytic Enzyme Complexes for Lignocellulosic Hydrolysis

* Preya Shah - Setauket (NY)Combating Cancer: Design and Synthesis of Dual-Warhead Tumor-Targeting Drug Conjugates

* Narendra Pundarik Tallapragada - Burke (VA)Determining the Dielectric Function for Crystalline Solids from the “Bottom Up”, Using Atomic, Ionic, and Molecular Properties

* Suvai Gunasekaran - Madison (WI)A New Approach to Biofilm Inhibition: Incorporation and Controlled Release of Synthetic N-Acylated Homoserine Lactone Compounds from Surfaces

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