[Ohiogift] Announcing the 2015 Davidson Fellows

Tue Aug 18 14:28:07 EDT 2015

              TALENTED YOUNG STUDENTS ADDRESS WORLD’S MOST VEXING PROBLEMS
    20 Students Named 2015 Davidson Fellows and Receive $50,000, $25,000 and $10,000 Scholarships

    Reno, Nev. –  During the past 15 years the Davidson Institute for Talent Development has awarded $6.2 million in Davidson Fellows scholarships  recognizing more than 260 of  our nation’s best and brightest young  students. These figures include this year’s 20 Davidson Fellows  recipients, ages 18 and under, who will each be awarded a $50,000,  $25,000 or $10,000 scholarship. 

    Davidson  Fellows exemplify the extraordinary work that can be accomplished by  gifted young U.S. students who are given opportunities to excel. Such  opportunities are outlined in the recently published research report, A Nation Empowered: Evidence Trumps the Excuses Holding Back America’s Brightest Students, and include access to mentors, labs and accelerated educational options.

    Named one of the most prestigious undergraduate scholarships by U.S. News & World Report,  the Davidson Fellows award seeks to recognize young people who have  developed significant projects that have the potential to benefit  society in the fields of science, technology, engineering, mathematics,  literature, music and philosophy.  

    Davidson  Fellows not only represent some of the brightest young minds in the  country, but they also represent kindness, compassion and a strong  desire to improve the world around them.  Many of the Fellows’ projects  are inspired by personal experiences that drive them to find a solution  to a problem.  Whether it was watching a family member suffer from  cancer, witnessing children drink wastewater out of desperation, or  wanting to change people’s attitudes from cynicism to sincerity and  their actions from judgment to kindness, each Fellow is driven to use  their passion and intelligence to make the world a better place. 

    “We  are thrilled to recognize the 2015 Davidson Fellows not only for their  incredible projects, but also for the journey they forged to reach this  point,” said Bob Davidson, co-founder of the Davidson Institute.  “Every year I am amazed by the breadth and depth of the Fellows’  accomplishments. With nurturing, gifted students like these will be  among those who will solve the world’s most vexing problems.”

    Positive contributions to society made by the 2015 Davidson Fellows include:
    ·         Fostering a closer examination of race, culture and ethnicity through storytelling; 
    ·         Development of a low-cost method of converting wastewater to potable water;
    ·         Fabrication  of the next generation of a supercapacitor that can be used in hybrid  electrical vehicles, electric trains, airplanes, smart phones and  computers;
    ·         Brain  image analysis to better understand brain anatomy, disease progression,  monitor treatment regimens and discover genetic influences on brain  structure.
    ·         Creation  of a cancer therapy that specifically targets only the cancer cells,  potentially eliminating the side effects of traditional cancer  treatments and increasing drug potency.

    The  2015 Davidson Fellows Award Ceremony will be held Tuesday, September 29  in Washington, D.C. with all scholarship recipients attending.  While  in Washington, D.C., each Fellow will meet with their representatives in  Congress to speak of the importance of educational opportunities for  high-achieving young people. 
    The following students are this year’s Davidson Fellows:

    2015 Davidson Fellow Laureates
    $50,000 Scholarships
  Mr. Noah Golowich, 17, Lexington, Mass.; Resolving a Conjecture on Degree of Regularity, With Some Novel Structural Results
Mr. Dhaivat Pandya, 17, Appleton, Wis.; Algorithms for Minimum Cost Linear Network Coding Design for Networks with General Connections
Miss Swetha Shutthanandan, 17, Richland, Wash.; Next Generation Supercapacitor for Ultra-Fast Energy Storage and Harvesting
  2015 Davidson Fellows
    $25,000 Scholarships
  Mr. Michael Jon Bennett, 16, New York; Connective Color: Innovating as Composer, Organist, Pianist
Miss Joy Jin, 17, Palo Alto, Calif.; Identification and Characterization of a Cancer Stem Cell Subpopulation in Lung Cancer
Miss Saumya Keremane, 18, Riverside, Calif.; A Rapid Field Detection of Liberibacter Bacteria Associated with Potato Zebra Chip Disease Using Lateral Flow Technology 
Miss Deepika Kurup, 17, Nashua, N.H.; Novel Photocatalytic Composites for Degrading Organics and Inactivating Bacteria in Water
Miss Oriana Tang, 18, Livingston, N.J.; Wringing Tears from the Stars: A Linguistic Revitalization of Human Empathy
Mr. Peter Tian, 18, Hilliard, Ohio; Extremal Functions of Forbidden Multidimensional Matrices
Miss Sreya Vemuri, 16, Carmel, Ind.; Effect of Time-Dependent Gain and Loss in a PT-Symmetric Lattice
  ·         Mr. Moshe Willner, 18, Los Angeles; Reconfigurable Orbital-Angular-Momentum and Polarization Manipulation of 100-Gbit/s PQSK Data Channels
    ·         Mr. Phillip Yu, 17, Plano, Texas; Using HDAC Inhibitor CI-994 to Enhance Progranulin Expression for Dementia Therapy 
    $10,000 Scholarships
  Mr. Joe Broom, 18, McLean, Va.; Music as Voice: Presenting the Mosaic of Life
Mr. Augustine Chemparathy, 18, San Ramon, Calif.; Engineering the Electron Sink Behavior of Triacylglycerol to Increase Algal Biodiesel Yield
Miss Grace Hong, 17, Reno, Nev.; The Spaces: Exploring Multi-Ethnic Identities of the Past, Present, and Future
Miss Samantha Koire, 18, Sacramento, Calif.; A New Mechanism for Protonic Communication: pH Signaling Via 2D Sound Waves
Mr. Vineet Kosaraju, 16, Saratoga, Calif.; Towards Rational RNA Therapeutics: 3D RNA Engineering in a Massive Open Laboratory
Mr. Jazz Munitz, 17, Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.; Microfluidics-Facilitated Synthesis and Characterization of Apoptosis-Inducing Low-Cost Nanoparticles for Cancer Therapeutics
Miss Emma Resmini, 15, Fairfax Station, Va.; The Exquisite Breath and Breadth of the Flute
Miss Jenny Wang, 17, Cary, N.C.; Fully Automated Computational Brain Image Segmentation for Cross-Modality Analysis of Neurodegenerative Diseases 

    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. The Institute offers support through a number of programs and services, including the Davidson Fellows Scholarship and The Davidson Academy of Nevada. For more information about the Davidson Institute, please visit www.DavidsonGifted.org.

 High-resolution photos and more information are available at www.DavidsonFellowsScholarship.org.  

Contacts: Alexis Miller, Amplify Relations, alexis at amplifyrelations.com, 775-813-8150 Melissa Reed, Davidson Institute, mreed at davidsongifted.org, 775-852-3483 x 425        

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