Young Epidemiology Scholars (YES) Competition

Congratulations to the 2004-2005 Semifinalists who each receive a $1,000 college scholarship.

Arkansas
Kate Lyford, Little Rock Central High School, Little Rock, "Do Anti-Smoking Ads Impact Urban and Rural Teenagers Differently?"

California
Kaleen Canevari, Woodland High School, Woodland, "Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury Rates in Soccer Players: The Effect of Injury Prevention Education"

Munhim Chaudhry, Granada Hills Charter High School, Granada Hills, "The Many Guises of Smoking: A Survey on Hookah use among Urban Teenagers"

Chanukya Dasari, Mission San Jose High School, Fremont, "What Creates Stress in High School Teens? An Evaluation of Mission San Jose High School"

Kelsy Greenwald, Palm Springs High School, Palm Springs, "What Can We Do About the Epidemic of Obesity?"

Alina Leung, Foothill High School, Pleasanton, "Loud Music and Adolescent Hearing vs. Occupational Hearing Loss"

Sapna Lohiya, Sage Hill School, Newport Coast, "Fracture Epidemiology among Residents of a Developmental Center"

Emily Storm, The Branson School, Ross, "Drink Drank Drunk: A Statistical Analysis of Alcohol use in Parochial, Private, and Public Schools"

Andrew Xiao, Lynbrook High School, San Jose, "Rate of Fireworks Related Injuries In States that Permit or Prohibit the Sale of Consumer Fireworks"

Connecticut
William Froehlich, Hamden High School, Hamden, "Losing Sleep: A Comparative Study of Sleep and Academic Performance"

Jeffrey Schneider, South Windsor High School, South Windsor, "Analytic Study on the Impact of Acquired Immunity on the Spread of West Nile Virus in the US"

Florida
Isabel Boero, Gulliver Preparatory School, Pinecrest, "Genetic Studies of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis"

Chelsea Foley, Plantation High School, Plantation, "The Effect of Gender on the Occurence of Ulcers"

Justin Johns, Evangelical Christian School, Fort Myers, "Education vs. Medication: An Analysis of Disease Management Practices in Type II Diabetic Patients."

Parijata Mackey, Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School, Miami, "Teenage Stress and Substance Abuse: The Influence of Academic, Social, and Family Life"

Georgia
Dara Satterfield, Kennesaw Mountain High School, Kennesaw, "Prevalence of Youth Risk Behaviors at Kennesaw Mountain High School in Comparison to National Youth Risk Behavior Rates"

Joy Zhang, Lakeside High School, Evans, "Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria as a Growing Health Risk"

Hawaii
Hezhi Gan, President Theodore Roosevelt High School, Honolulu, "Cigarette Smoking and Alcohol Use Among Pregnant Hawaiian Women in Hawaii, 2000-2002"

Illinois
Alice Williams, Whitney Young High School, Chicago, "Chlamydia: The Scourge of the Black Community; or Something More?"

Indiana
Nicole Abrams, Terre Haute South Vigo High School, Terre Haute, "The Threat of Obesity in High School Students"

Iowa
Megan Srinivas, Fort Dodge Senior High, Fort Dodge, "Epidemiological Analysis of Eating Disorders Among Teenagers in the United States"

Kansas
Seth Fromer, Wichita Collegiate School, Wichita, "Ambient Air and Childhood Asthma Hospitalizations"

Amanda Hill, Olathe North High School, Olathe, "Connecting Relative Poverty to Infant Mortality Rates in a Rural Haitian Community"

Louisiana
Cindy Cheng, Ben Franklin High School, New Orleans, "Correlations Between Obesity and Cancer Using State Summary Data"

Maryland
Christopher Redmond, Century High School, Sykesville, "The Effect of Employment and Secondary Activities on Stress Levels of Today's High School Student"

Pooja Singal, Severn School, Severna Park, "Do Flu Shots Really Cause Flu?"

Michigan
Michael Jeng, Troy High School, Troy, "A Study of Contact Lens Wearing Habits and the Risks of Eye Infections Among High School Students"

Leezanne McNichols, Alcona High School, Lincoln, "Study of the Risk of Sports Injury Among the Students of an Anonymous High School"

Rahul Reddy, Port Huron Northern High School, Port Huron, "Type 2 Diabetes in Adolescents: Prevalence of Risk Factors and an Intervention to Modify Lifestyle"

Nebraska
Joshua Hall, Waverly Secondary School, Waverly, "Application of Climatic and Historical Data to the Prediction of West Nile Virus Frequency"

Anish Mitra, Lincoln East High School, Lincoln, "Sleepless in High School: The Epidemic of Sleep Deprivation in American High Schools"

Nevada
Lanisa Pechacek, Centennial High School, Las Vegas, "Does Grade Level Affect Fatigue in High School Students?"

New Jersey
Robert Ford, Montgomery High School, Skillman, "The Prevalence of Youth Obesity"

Vivek Kanumuri, John P. Stevens High School, Edison, "Prevalence of Headache and Caffeine Consumption in Adolescents"

Chen-Yuan Lu, Academy for the Advancement of Science and Technology, Hackensack, "Adolescent Academic Achievement and Adulthood Obesity"

New York
Nandini Banerjee, Stuyvesant High School, New York, "Qualitative and Quantitative Markers for Changes in Physiology Through Yoga"

Amrit Das, Manhasset High School, Manhasset, "The Effects of Dietary Fat on NSC Lung Cancer Incidence"

Amy Edelstein, Lynbrook Senior High School, Lynbrook, "A Multifactor Analysis of Hand Hygiene Practices in a Pediatric ICU and Pediatric Emergency Department"

Hayley Haywood, Ossining High School, Ossining, "The Effects of Music on the Stress and Mood of Adolescents"

Amy Herskowitz, Roslyn High School, Roslyn Heights, "Factors that Contribute to Obesity and Unhealthy Eating Habits in High School Students"

Anna Ivnitskaya, Brooklyn Technical High School, Brooklyn, "The Relationship Between Disease Susceptibility and Awareness"

Anna Kim, Townsend Harris High School, Flushing, "Microbiology of Public Sinks"

Suzanna Konecky, Brooklyn Technical High School, Brooklyn, "Significance of Doctors Addressing Patients' Barriers to Preventative Testing for Breast Cancer"

Karen Kwan, Hunter College High School, New York, "Sleep, Stress and the Effects on Asthma"

Mackenzie Reilly, The Fox Lane High School, Bedford, "The Role of Seasonal Birthrates and Corresponding MMR Vaccination Dates in the Etiology of Autism"

Su Wang, Stuyvesant High School, New York, "Pursuit of Perfection: The Effect of Pro-Anorexia Websites on Their Visitors"

Jeannie Wong, Stuyvesant High School, New York, "Lost in Translation - Language Barriers in Health Care"

Patricia Marie Zamora, Christ the King Regional High School, Middle Village, "Bovine Insulin: A Possible Cause of Type I Diabetes"

Julie Zhao, Stuyvesant High School, New York, "Depression in Urban High School Students"

Ohio
Peter Griffin, Highland High School, Medina, "Incidence and Importance of Hypertension and Prehypertension in Adolescents"

Dana Meyer, Napoleon High School, Napoleon, "Underage Alcohol Consumption by High School Students in a Rural Community"

Pennsylvania
Zachary Rhinehart, Bradford Area High School, Bradford, "The Relationship Between Gender, School Lunch, and Exercise on Body Mass Index (BMI)"

Maria Vishnevskiy, Neshaminy High School, Langhorne, "Is Lack of Sleep a Problem at Neshaminy High School?"

Rhode Island
John Zhang, South Kingstown High School, Wakefield, "Pap Smear Test and Human Papilloma Virus Infection in Southern Rhode Island High School Students"

South Dakota
Keshav Arogyaswamy, Vermillion High School, Vermillion, "A Survey of Happiness and Factors Influencing Happiness Among Rural Midwestern High School Seniors"

Texas
Maria Gonzalez, John B. Alexander High School, Laredo, "Prevalence of Attention Deficit Disorder in Our Community"

Natalie Pawelek, Cypress Ridge High School, Houston, "Obesity in Elementary Age Children"

Virginia
Gina Lenzi, Maggie Walker Governor's School, Richmond, "Math Modeling in Trending and Predicting Occurrences of Melanoma by Latitude in the United States"

Rachael Napier, New Horizons Governor's School, Hampton, "Epidemiological Study of High School Sports Injuries"

Jie Xue, Mills E. Godwin High School, Richmond, "A Possible Relationship between Chronic Hunger and Breast Cancer Occurence"

Washington
Ellen Kim, Columbia River High School, Vancouver, "Comparison of Daily Caffeine Consumptions among High School Students"

West Virginia
Kavi Dotson, Parkersburg High School, Parkersburg, "The Efficacy of the Flu Vaccine and How Personal Traits and Habits Affect Contraction of the Flu"