Student scientists present research at American Museum of Natural History
NEW YORK (WABC) -- It was a special day at the American Museum of Natural History for more than 100 teen scientists from high schools across New York City.
They presented original scientific research and exchanged ideas at the 2nd Annual Student Research Colloquium of the NYC Science Research Mentoring Consortium.
The students presented the results of year-long research projects conducted under the mentorship of scientists from the Museum as part of its Science Research Mentoring Program.
In a special ceremony, three students that participated in SRMP received the AMNH Science Scholars Award, a $30,000 college scholarship to support their undergraduate studies.
The winners are:
Anna Brzozowski, from Queens and a senior at Hunter College High School.
Onjona Hossain, from the Bronx and a junior at Stuyvesant High School.
Kevin Lin, from Brooklyn and a senior at Staten Island Technical High School.
The museum's partners include NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, Columbia University Zuckerman Institute Mind Brain Behavior Initiative, City University of New York College Now, Rockaway Waterfront Alliance, CUNY Remote Sensing Earth System (CREST) Institute, Rockefeller University, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai, Earth Institute of Columbia University - Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, DNA Learning Center of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and Wave Hill.
Research reflects a wide range of interests, including using metagenomics to decode the urban marine microbiome, unraveling the metamorphic history of rocks along a tectonic plate, and exploring how past and current Ebola outbreaks are covered by the media.
