2006 Fellows
2006 Davidson Fellows Laureates – $50,000 Scholarship Recipients
Heather Engebretson, 16
Tuscaloosa, AL
Music: “Music as Universal Communication”
Michael Viscardi, 17
San Diego, CA
Mathematics: “On the Solution of the Dirichlet Problem with Rational Holomorphic Boundary Data”
Shivani Sud, 16
Durham, NC
Science: “HIV-1 Tat and IGK-Chain Secretion Based Protein Transduction: A Novel Strategy for Molecule Delivery”
2006 Davidson Fellows – $25,000 Scholarship Recipients
Stephanie Chen, 17
Austin, TX
Music: “A Musical Painting”
Sheela Krishnan, 17
Suffern, NY
Science: “Foulbrood Isolation and Characterization of a Potential Probiotic Cocktail for the Control of American Foulbrood in Domestic Honeybees”
Adam Solomon, 16
Bellmore, NY
Science: “The Effects of Age on Brown Dwarf Spectral Features in the Near-Infrared”
Kyle Dacuyan, 16
Sterling, VA
Literature: “What Have You Been, Where Have You Gone Musical Painting”
Varun Kumar, 17
Bellaire, TX
Science: “Novel Properties in Europium DOTA – tetraamide Complex for use in MRI Contrast Agents”
Yi Sun, 17
San Jose, CA
Mathematics: “On the Expected Winding Number of a Random Walk on the Unit Lattice”
2006 Davidson Fellows – $10,000 Scholarship Recipients
Travis Johnson, 13
Milwaukie, OR
Music: “Trails of Hope: The Importance of Adding New Music to the Classical Repertoire”
Albert Shieh, 16
Paradise Valley, AZ
Science: “A Novel Algorithm for Automated SNP Genotyping”
Anarghya Vardhana, 17
Beaverton, OR
Mathematics: “Novel Method of Computing Jacobi Symbols for Mersenne Numbers”
Steven Wu, 15
Folsom, CA
Science: “Optimizing Quadrupole Ion Trap Geometry by Computer Simulations”
Drew Petersen, 12
Oradell, NJ
Music: “Keeping Classical Music Alive”
Anna Stalker, 15
Birmingham, AL
Literature: “The Reincarnation Journals”
Cindy Wang, 17
Geneva, IL
Science: “nm2608A, A New Naturally Arising Mouse Model for Human Autosomal Recessive Achromatopsia 2”
2006 Davidson Fellows – Honorable Mentions
Miss Valerie Hsiung
Cincinnati, Ohio
Literature: They Came To Stay
Music: Beyond the Notes
Miss Abbie Groff
Science: Electricity Generation Using Microbial Fuel Cells
Science: Relationships of Protein Essentiality in Protein Interaction Networks Using Mathematics
Miss Anna Jolene Mork
Seattle, Washington
Science: A Tale of Two Plants: Comparative Autofluorescence in a Unicellular to a Multicellular Species