2011 Fellows
2011 Davidson Fellow Laureate – $50,000 Scholarship Recipient
Simone Porter, 14
Seattle, WA
Music: “Performance as Soundtrack of Process and Identity”
2011 Davidson Fellows – $25,000 Scholarship Recipients
Arjun Aggarwal, 16
Columbia, SC
Technology: “GNUT III an A.I.R.V.I.S. (Anthropometric Interactive Robot With Vision Intelligence and Speech)”
Marian Bechtel, 16
Lancaster, PA
Science: “A Stand-Off Seismo-Acoustic Method for Humanitarian Demining”
Siddhartha Jena, 17
Bloomfield Hills, MI
Science: “Erythrocyte Dysfunction and Amelioration in Hypercholesterolemic Conditions”
Caleb Kumar, 15
Blaine, MN
Science: “Designing a Java Program to Diagnose Bladder Cancer”
Lucy Wang, 17
Garnet Valley, PA
Science: “Predicting Adolescent Depression: A Secondary Analysis of Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey”
Matthew Bauerle, 16
Fenton, MI
Mathematics: “Reformulating the Newton Direction Computation as a Linear Least Squares Problem for Smoothed Overdetermined l1 Functions”
Benjamin Clark, 15
Lancaster, PA
Science: “The Close Binary Fraction: A Bayesian Analysis of SDSS M Dwarf Spectra”
Arianna Körting, 17
Gates Mills, OH
Music: “Celebration of Life Through the Piano”
Sunil Pai, 17
Houston, TX
Science: “A Novel, Inexpensive, Nanotechnology-Based Approach to Determine Quantum Energies of Superoxide”
2011 Davidson Fellows – $10,000 Scholarship Recipients
Cheenar Banerjee, 16
Rochester, MN
Technology: “Artificial Emotion: A Novel Way of Emotion Recognition for Affective Computing”
Jayanth Krishnan, 17
Mahopac, NY
Science: “Regulatory Signatures of Cancer Cell Lines Inferred from Expression Data”
Anirudh Prabhu, 16
West Lafayette, IN
Mathematics: “Lower Bounds for Odd Perfect Numbers”
Raja Selvakumar, 15
Alpharetta, GA
Science: “The Implementation of a GastroMicrobial Fuel Cell in Capsular Nanorobotics”
Rebecca Chen, 16
Carmel, IN
Mathematics: “Generalized Yang-Baxter Equations and Braiding Quantum Gates”
Bonnie Nortz, 17
Fairport, NY
Literature: “Run and Run and Run”
Shalini Ramanan, 17
Richland, WA
Science: “Inhibition of Vascular Cell Migration by Bisdemethoxycurcumin: A Bioinformatics Based Approach to Identify Target Genes”
Reylon Yount, 16
San Francisco, CA
Music: “The Second Silk Road: Bridging East and West Through Chinese Music”
2011 Davidson Fellows – Honorable Mentions
Miss Ezgi Ustundag
Ames, Iowa
Literature: Identity: Contemporary Reflections
Mr. George Li
Lexington, Massacusetts
Music: Achieving Excellence: The Miracle of Music
Mr. Ayush Gupta
Technology: The Design and Implementation of a CHICA Algorithm for Optimized Diagnosis of Pediatric Hypertension