Five seniors have been recognized as a part of the 2024 Regeneron Science Talent Search Top 300 Scholars. The five students who were named as scholars are seniors Benjamin Gordon, Sadie Muller, Tej Parekh, Hannah Rosenberg, and Harrison Roth. For this year’s application, 2,162 students submitted an entry project, coming from 712 high schools, 46 states, and eleven additional countries. Of those 2,162 students, 300 were chosen as recipients of this special honor.
Gordon and Muller titled their projects, respectively, “Impact of Cannabinoids on Prostaglandin Synthesis in Activated Inflammatory Cells” and “Inside the Echo Chamber: A Closer Look at Climate Change Discourse on Twitter (X) and Political Correlates of Affective Polarization.” Parekh titled his project, “Utilizing Artificial Intelligence for Categorizing Wildfire Origins Through Satellite Image Analysis”, while Rosenberg titled her project “Christian Nationalism, Antisemitism, and Attitudes Toward the War in Ukraine.” Roth titled his project, “Quantitative Implications of Nesting in State Legislatures.”
Schreiber students have been submitting their research to this competition for years in order to get a chance at receiving the special honor and prize money. Furthermore, the number of students who received the honor this year increased from last year despite an increased pool of applicants. The students chose a topic that interested them the most and created remarkable research projects that demonstrate their remarkable ability for informing the public on certain issues. As a result, Society for Science has given each student a financial reward of $2,000, as well as a reward to Schreiber in the same amount for each enrolled scholar.
The Regeneron Science Talent Search is a renowned competition sponsored by Society for Science, a nonprofit organization founded in 1942 that has dedicated itself to promoting science through its publications and education programs. It focuses on the fields of science, math, and engineering, and is the longest-running and most esteemed competition in the United States. Specifically designed for high school seniors, applicants are required to complete an independent research project conceived from their own imagination that will be judged by a panel of some of the most respected minds in the areas of science today. Of the 19 categories that were offered to conduct research in, the areas that made it into the top five are, in no particular order, Medicine & Health, Behavioral & Social Sciences, Cellular & Molecular Biology, Medicine & Health, and Computational Biology.