BEYOND the BOOKS
‘Outside-the-Box’ Science & Engineering
U
students
nition at the event include:
Colonies following a Traumatic Bleaching Event
returned to
Andrew Mellert ’17 and Kineo Gorman ’17 Soil Remediation: Removing Contaminants by Means of Thermal Desorption Followed by Remineralization Through Addition of Organic Material
Matthew Restieri ’18, Greyson Wolfram ’18, and Chris Burdick ’18 The Future of the Prosthetic Limb: Sacrificing Visual Aesthetics and Individualized Movement to Yield Greater Strength and Utility
Colin MacFaddin ’17 and Alex Wada ’17 Research on the Feasibility of How a Cooperative YeastAlgae Biofuel Production System Will Affect Biomass and an Investigation into the Feasibility of Biofuel as the Next Clean Energy
Wesley Peisch ’18 Optimizing Efficiency of Urban, Track-based Rapid Transit Systems
PPER SCHOOL
Greenwich as award winners after the
Connecticut Science and Engineering Fair, held Saturday, March 19, at Quinnipiac University in Hamden. “These students worked so hard,” Science Department Chair Dana Montanez said. “They demonstrated incredible dedication and outsidethe-box thinking in developing their concepts — and the results of their hard work really shined at the fair.”
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Students earning recog-
Thacher Scannell ’18 and Ned Camel ’18 Acropora Grafting: A Feasible Method to Reestablish Zooxanthellae
Jack Stefanou ’17 Observing the Synergistic Effect of Pesticides on Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems Lachlan Rosato ’17 Improving Standard of Living for Refugees: Use
of Recycled Materials to Modify Internal Temperature and Dryness, and to Provide Electricity and Water in Tented Housing Siyan Shaikh ’17 and Tucker Calcano ’17 Extracting DNA from Hair Follicles of Canis latrans to Understand Interrelatedness Among a Transient Population Matthew Jacobson ’18 and Avi Mukherjee ’18 Improving Methodologies for Preclinical Data Collection: Tracking Motion of Biological Test Subjects in Laboratory Environments Jack Driscoll ’18 An Investigation of the Ability of Pseudomonas putida to Counteract
Elevated Heart Rate in Daphnia magna Exposed to Nicotine Nick Saah ’18 Optimizing Growth of Phaseolus vulgaris Using Hawaiian Cinder Cone Soil as a Proxy for Agricultural Conditions on Mars
FRONT Thacher Scannell ’18, Nick Saah ’18, Wesley Peisch ’18, and Ned Camel ’18 MIDDLE Science Chair Dana Montanez, Lachlan Rosato ’17, Matthew Restieri ’18, Jack Stefanou ’17, Kineo Gorman ’17, Andrew Mellert ’17, and Tucker Calcano ’17 BACK Matthew Jacobson ’18, Jack Driscoll ’18, Greyson Wolfram ’18, Chris Burdick ’18, Avi Mukherjee ’18, Siyan Shaikh ’17, Alex Wada ’17, and Colin MacFaddin ’17
OF BRUNSWICK • SPRING 2016
5/19/16 12:15 PM