New Jersey Governor's School in the Sciences

2002 Program

INVESTIGATION OF BACTERIOPHAGES OF THE BIRD PATHOGEN, Bordetella avium

Emily Chen, Carol Duh, Emily Gallant, John Keeley, Alex Lovejoy, Anh Thu Nguyen, Dominica Petersen, Ruth Pumroy, Rina Shah, Shang-Jui Wang

Advisor: Dr. Louise Temple
Assistants: Holly Kuzmiak, Kelly Prescott, and Oktawia Wojcik

SONGS OF JUPITER: DETECTING RADIO WAVES FROM SPACE

Tom Discepola, Greg Haislip, Shereef Elnahal, Mike Fitzsimmons, John Kang, Meera Krishnan, Saee Paliwal, David Paltiel, Henry Park, Margaret Senese

Advisor: Brian Holton
Teaching Assistant: Karl Strohmaier

ANALYSIS OF HARD- AND SOFT-BODIED GRANULAR SYSTEMS IN ONE DIMENSION

Daniel Farnoly, Benjamin Golub, Hansun Hsiung, David Kelley, Tiffany Leung, William Nicoll, Sonya Nikolaidis, Jeremy Pfund, Adam Shpigel, Julie Wu

Advisor: Dr. Paul V. Quinn
Teaching Assistant: Justin G. Hotchkiss

ARCHAEOMETALLURGY: THE STUDY OF ANCIENT METALLURGICAL PROCESSES

Komal Ahuja, Caitlin Bauman, Norman Ho, Melanie Kaufer, Jennifer North, Ashley Robinson-Spann, Pamela Schoenberg, Matt Skrzynski, Meghan Tozzi, and Jason Wang

Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Golden
Assistant: Susan Leu

CHANGE DETECTION BLINDNESS IN MOVING VISUAL SCENES

Michael Coppola, Jillian DeMair, Ashley Feneran, Kelly Huang, Janet Lee, Deepali Malhotra, Joshua Min, Raina Shivashankar, Alice Xie, Grace Yeung

Advisor: Patrick Dolan
Assistant: Anna Labowsky

FINDING ANSWERS IN STARLIGHT

Abigail Huang, Shankar Iyer, Minyoung Jang, Chang Kim, Victoria Lent, Elise Pasoreck, Sheila Prakash, Mark Saigh, Douglas Swanson, Gary Yen

Advisor: Dr. Keith Andrew
Assistant: Karen Mooney

SWEET MYSTERIES: ANALYSIS OF PHARMACOLOGICALLY ACTIVE INGREDIENTS IN CHOCOLATE

Terence Choy, Gurinderpal Doad, Sheetal Gandhi, Nicole Hair, Patricia Li, Pulsar Li,
Caitlin Oksienik, Bryan Shilowich, Michael Swita, Daniel Wunderlich

Advisors: Jean Barmash and Amy Katz

Edited and Revised by David M. Miyamoto

CELESTIAL MECHANICS

Jeff Kaplan, Jennifer Mitchel, D. Martin Ma, Knicole Colon, Kirsten Ruch, Parker Meares, Brandon Levan, Joe Kowalski, Deepali Dhar, Tyler Patla

Advisor: Professor Steve Surace
Teaching Assistant: Sally Warner

GAMBUSIA AND SYSTEMS THINKING

Cara Bergamo, Jarrett Cato, Samira Farouk, Lisa Halbsgut, Jennifer Lee, Andrea Miltiades, Paul Morrison, David Page, Eugenia Shmidt, Pranava Upadrashta

Advisor: Michael T. Roche

Teaching Assistant: Matthew Singer