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Neuroscience
Collegeville-Trappe, PA
Schools
Pennsylvania Prodigy: 9-Year-Old Aiden Wilkins Starts Studying Neuroscience At Ursinus College
A Pennsylvania boy is making history as one of the youngest college students in the country. At just 9 years old, Aiden Wilkins of Royersford is juggling high school and college. He’s a sophomore at Reach Cyber Charter School and also the youngest student ever to take a class at Ursinus College in Collegeville, according to NBC10, 6ABC, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Three days a week, Aiden can be found sitting in a neuroscience classroom alongside 18- to 20-year-old college freshmen. The rest of the time, he’s completing high school coursework virtually. His load is heavy, but Aiden said …
Mineola, NY
News
Parakeets Talking May Unlock Breakthroughs In Speech Disorder, Stroke Therapies: NYU Study
Parakeet brains and their ability to mimic human talking could help people suffering from speech disorders, according to a new study. For the first time, scientists at New York University's Grossman School of Medicine recorded brain activity in parakeets as the birds made sounds. The researchers' findings were published in the scientific journal Nature on Wednesday, Mar. 19. The NYU study found that parakeet brains generate patterns previously observed only in humans while speaking. The findings may help guide future treatments for speech disorders like apraxia, which affects spee…
Fairfax, VA
News
This Word Stumped Fairfax County Teen Landing Her 2nd Place In National Spelling Bee
A 14-year-old Fairfax County girl took home $250,000 and second place in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Charlotte Walsh — a black belt in Tae Kwon Do from Merrifield — last year tied for 32nd and in 2019 tied for 51st. The word that stumped her this year? Daviely: A Scottish-rooted word meaning listlessly. This year's winner is 14-year-old Dev Shah, who correctly spelled "psammophile." According to her bio on the Scripps website, Charlotte is homeschooled and wants to pursue astrophysics or neuroscience when she is older.
Armonk, NY
Schools
$6M Prize: Byram Hills HS Students To Compete In Prestigious Competition
After winning a regional competition, three high school students from Northern Westchester will be competing for $6 million in awards at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair, known as the world's largest pre-college science and math competition. The three students, all seniors at Byram Hills High School in Armonk, were already named grand prize winners at the Regeneron Westchester Science and Engineering Fair, held on Saturday, March 18 at Somers High School. They will now advance to the international competition, which will be held in Dallas, Texas in M…
Armonk, NY
Schools
Byram Hills HS Senior Wins $60K Award
A high school senior from Northern Westchester has earned a $60,000 award after placing highly in the final round of the Regeneron Science Talent Search, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious scholastic science and math competition. Earlier Report - Byram Hills HS Seniors Get $2K Each For Being Regeneron Scholars Samantha Milewicz, a senior at Byram Hills High School in Armonk, took eighth place in the final round of the competition on Tuesday, March 14, school district officials announced. Milewicz, who had already won a $2,000 award for being name…
Highland Lakes-Vernon, NJ
Obituaries
Beloved Sparta High School Grad, Johns Hopkins Research Technologist Dies Suddenly, 26
Beloved Sparta High School graduate and Johns Hopkins research technologist Erin Julia Beebe died unexpectedly on Monday, April 4. She was 26. Erin attended Reverend George A. Brown Memorial School and Pope John XXIII High School before graduating from Sparta High School in 2014, her obituary says. She then used her love of science to pursue higher education at Muhlenberg College, where she graduated with a Neuroscience degree in 2018. Erin went on to earn employment as a Laboratory Research Assistant in the Department of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine at the …
Danbury, CT
Lifestyle
Brain & Spine Surgeons of NY Host First Annual Neuroscience Symposium
On Friday, November 15, 2019, Brain & Spine Surgeons of NY (BSSNY) held their first Annual Neuroscience Symposium. Healthcare professionals from far and wide gathered to meet the expert board-certified surgeons and learn about the latest technology and techniques. Brilliant presentations demonstrated the foremost treatments for neurosurgical disorders. Also present was featured guest speaker, Eugene S. Flamm, MD, Professor of Neurosurgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Flamm outlined the history of neurosurgery to the audience and demonstrated how it has advanced to today. H…
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Lifestyle
Garfield Baby Missing Chunk Of Skull Is First Ever To Survive
A Garfield baby born missing part of his skull was given one day to live. Well, it's been seven months -- making him the first in the world with the rare condition to survive, according to several recent reports including this one in the New York Post. Maria Santa Maria, 30, originally of Clifton, discovered her son's condition in the first trimester of her pregnancy. Doctors suggested the mom and her husband, Augusto Santa Maria, 31, abort the baby. The couple decided to go through with the pregnancy and explained to their three daughters that Lucas' first day on earth would likely be …
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
News
NJ To Alaska: Chester Man With Heart Condition Rides 3,700 Miles For Science
When John Schwenck's dad was 25 years old in 1990, he rode is bicycle more than 3,700 miles from New Jersey to California and camped out along the way. A few years later, Schwenck's mom joined his father for another bike trip to Alaska. This one, though, was cut short, though, when the couple found out their son was planning an arrival much sooner than they expected. Now that the younger John is 25 years old, he's planning on making the same bike trip to Alaska. The only difference is that he's doing it with a rare heart condition for a goal of advancing scientific research. John Schw…
Newark, NJ
Neighbors
Bloomfield High Senior Accepted To 15 Schools, Including Princeton
This can be a tense time of year for college-bound high school seniors, who are now learning where they’ve been accepted, where they’ve been wait-listed and which schools simply wished them well in their future endeavors. Emmanuel Odekunle of Bloomfield has a lot to think about too -- such as deciding which of the more than one dozen schools where he’s been accepted he’s going to attend. “As of this moment, I have not yet made a decision as to which university I will be attending,” the senior at Bloomfield High School said in an interview late last week. “God will direct us on the best one…
Chappaqua, NY
Schools
Horace Greeley High School Senior Named National Finalist For Neuroscience Research Award
A local high school student is one of the 12 national finalists for the prestigious Neuroscience Research Award. Isha Puri, Horace Greeley High School senior, conducted research surrounding dyslexia, developing a way to screen children for the disorder using a standard computer webcam. Puri has won several awards for her research, including the Second Grand Prize Award in her category at the 2018 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the 2018 MIT THINK Scholar award, the 2018 National Security Agency Mathematics Honors award and the 2018 Regeneron WESEF Neuroscience fi…
Armonk, NY
Schools
Pair Of Byram Hills Students Named National Finalists For Neuroscience Research
Three local high school students have been named as finalists in a nationwide neuroscience research award. The American Academy of Neurology and the Child Neurology Society is granting the Neuroscience Research Prize to four students across the country based on their neuroscience backgrounds and achievements. The Byram High School seniors, Samantha Abbruzzese and Rachel Chernoff, are students in the school’s Dr. Robert Pavlica Authentic Science Research Program and were selected from 74 entrants high school around the country. “We are very proud of these two accomplished women who are pass…
Ossining, NY
Schools
Ossining HS Student Finalist For National Neuroscience Research Award
Sabrina Piccirillo-Stosser, a senior at Ossining High School, is one of 12 finalists across the country for the 2019 Neuroscience Research Prize. Sponsored by the American Academy of Neurology and the Child Neurology Society, this esteemed prize is granted to high school students whose talent in the sciences “indicates potential for significant contributions in the neuroscience field,” according to the Southern Westchester BOCES Office of Public Information. Sabrina is involved in the OHS Science Research Program and has dedicated the last two years to gene investigations and possible drug …
Bergenfield, NJ
Lifestyle
North Jersey Teen Wins $25G For Groundbreaking Correlation Between MS, Osteoporosis
A North Jersey teen is one of 20 students from across the U.S. to be recognized for projects that have the potential to benefit society. Deena Shefter of Ridgewood, 17, won a $25,000 Davidson Fellows Scholarship for her project, Modeling the Effects of Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide on Pre-Osteoblast Differentiation. The Bergen Academies student's fascination with diseases of the nervous system inspired her to investigate the connection between multiple sclerosis (MS) and osteoporosis, conditions that affect millions of people globally. Considering that osteoporosis and MS impact different…
Armonk, NY
Schools
Byram Hills Tops In Regeneron Scholars
ARMONK, N.Y.-- Five Byram Hills High School students were selected as scholars in the Regeneron Science Talent Search.Five students are the most from any high school in Westchester. The students selected are Alexis Aberman, Alexandra Brocato, Stella Li, Jeremy Ma and Kylie Roslin. Forty finalists will be invited to Washington, D.C. in March to participate in final judging, display their work to the public, meet with notable scientists and compete for the top award of $250,000. Aberman investigated if a milestone exists when infants can make abstractions from unique object labels to generic…
