LISEF 2003 Category Winners
| First Place - Winners Receive a Trip to ISEF | |||
| Behavioral Sciences | Alex Kardon | South Side High School | Do Pay Raises Affect Measured Performance and Inferred Motivation in Professional Baseball Players? |
| Casey Vaughn | Lawrence High School | "Deaf, Not Dumb:" Dispelling the Myth of the "Mathematics Deficit" Among Deaf Students. | |
| Sarah Waldman | Roslyn High School | The effects of stereotype threat on high school girls'performance on a math test. | |
| Biochemistry/Gerontology | Andrew Chang | Jericho High School | Structural Homology and Experimental Complementation of Yersinia pestis and Escherichia coli SsrA-SmpB |
| David Gottesman | Roslyn High School | Isolation and Expression of an Epinephrine-synthesizing Enzyme (PNMT) from Entamoeba Parasites | |
| Jeremy Price | Jericho High School | Developing An Inducible, Neural Cell Model Of Polyglutamine Aggregation and Toxicity | |
| Botany/Zoology | Gregory Amend | Manhasset High School | The Effect Sea Star Coelomocytes have on Asteroidea Regeneration in vivo and Lumbricus terrestris Brain Cellular Proliferation in vitro |
| Chemistry | John Sadowski | North Shore High School | Self-Assembling Nanostructures Using Conductive DNA: A New Approach to Post-Silicon Computer Processor Technology |
| Computer Science | Katherine Harvard | Great Neck South High School | Modeling the Ecological Success of Decision Rules Using Variants of the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma |
| Engineering | Michelle Louie | Kings Park High School | A sensing system based on Laser intensity changes due to optical fiber vibration |
| Environmental Science | Erica Burden | Paul D. Schreiber High School | The Effects of Pubertal Exposure to Estradiol on Epididymal Sperm Counts: Genetic Differences in Sensitivity to Endocrine Disruption |
| Mathematics | Lester Mackey | Half Hollow Hills HS West | A Combinatorial Proof of Seymour's Conjecture for Regular Oriented Graphs with Almost Regular Outsets O'a and O''a |
| Medicine and Health | Jennifer Ling | John L. Miller Great Neck North High School | Detection of surface antigen mutants in the a determinant region of children that failed neonatal hepatitis B prophylaxis |
| Gene Sussman | Lawrence High School | Inhibition of Cisplatin-Induced Apoptosis by AKT2: Implication of AKT2 in Chemoresistance | |
| Microbiology | Jarryd Levine | Paul D. Schreiber High School | Identifying Bacterial Genes via Neural Networks |
| Physics/Earth & Space Sciences | Brandon Imber | Commack High School | The "Blackberry" Cluster: Thermodynamic Equilibrium and Potential Medical Applications of Giant Nanoscale Inorganic Molecules in Solution |
| Team Projects | Hyeyeon Choi and Aaron Long | Half Hollow Hills HS East | The Effect of Density Fluctuations on Polymer Interfaces |
| Joshua Egan and Jason Pellegrino | Manhasset High School | Sub-Nuclear Localization of the Unknown Protein Muo10.12 and the Chromatin Remodeling Factor HirA in Arabidopsis Thaliana | |
| Jonathan Hefter and Andrew Song | Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School for Boys | Improving Thermal Stability of PMMA Resins by Melt Blending with Modified Organoclays | |
| Hatty Hong and Vivek Kuncham | Manhasset High School | Controlling the Crystallization Properties of Poly[ethylene oxide] Thin Films | |
| Ashley Kepping and Joanne Hsieh | Northport High School | Lipoic Acid Inhibits CREB Gene Expression in Regenerating Hydra | |
| Abigail Maller and Lauren Goldstein | Stella K. Abraham HS for Girls | Using Nanoparticle Fillers to Enhance the Properties of Polymer Thin-Film Lubricants | |
| Shama Patel and Helen Tsai | Manhasset High School | Evauluating the Effects of Various Oxidative Stressors on Hormesis in Caenorhabditis elegans | |
| Joan Rho and Maanasa Indaram | The Wheatley School | DNA Electrophoresis on Modified Silicon Surfaces in the Presence of Electroosmotic Flow | |
| Second Place | |||
| Behavioral Sciences | Rebecca Ajodan | John L. Miller Great Neck North High School | The Effect of Method of Communication on Social Emotional Inferences |
| Jeremy Francis | Paul D. Schreiber High School | Sequential and Simultaneous Lineups Under the Cross-Race Condition | |
| Jonathan Levin | Paul D. Schreiber High School | Object Based Attention in Pigeons | |
| Biochemistry/Gerontology | Michael Gorin | Lynbrook High School | Development of a Three-Color Microarray Assay—Putative Mechanisms For Probe Loss |
| Anh Pham | Jericho High School | The Effect of epsilon D173A Mutation on Antagonism of nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors by Pancuronium and Cisatracurium | |
| Alexander Vinberg | Manhasset High School | The Chemical Pathway of Extramedullary Hematopoiesis in Myelofibrosis | |
| Botany/Zoology | Jordan Komisarow | Long Beach High School | The Identification of Transposon Regulator Genes in the Flowering Plant Arabidopsis thaliana. |
| Chemistry | Mandeep Virdi | POB John F. Kennedy High School | The Synthesis of a Taxoid Porphyrin Conjugate for Selective Drug Delivery |
| Computer Science | Brandon Diamond | John L. Miller Great Neck North High School | Verifying Text Authorship via a Stylistically Trained Language Analysis System Employing the K-Nearest Neighbor Computer Learning Algorithm |
| Engineering | Andrew Clare | Harborfields High School | A New Empirical Model for Sonic Boom Prediction |
| Environmental Science | Jon Mcmanus | West Islip High School | The Effects of Dissolved Inorganic Nitrogen on Microspora galbama and Botrydiopsis turneri |
| Mathematics | Lauren Lichtman | Half Hollow Hills HS East | Zeckendorf Representations of Products of Fibonacci and Lucas Numbers |
| Medicine and Health | Steven Klein | Manhasset High School | The Effect of Myocardial Infarction on the Expression of alpha- and beta- MHC in Rat Cardiac Tissue |
| Haley Yarosh | Bellmore John F. Kennedy High School | The Promotion of Angiogenesis by a Bicyclic Monoterpene Diol | |
| Microbiology | Sarah Brown | Bellmore John F. Kennedy High School | Using Transposon Mutagenesis to Extend the Host Range of T4 Bacteriophages |
| Physics/Earth & Space Sciences | Tedhar (tedi) Setton | POB John F. Kennedy High School | Correlation of Cell and Substrate Mechanical Properties |
| Team Projects | Lakshmi Alagappan and Leslie Kim | Syosset High School | The Characterization of the Granulomatous Reaction in Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
| Upton Au and Laurie-anne Haller | Manhasset High School | Increasing Crop Yields: the Localization and Analysis of the Candidate Gene fea2 | |
| Carrie Bodner and Amelia Breyre | Manhasset High School | The Effects of Bt Corn Cry1 and Cry3 variations on Ground Dwelling Carabids | |
| Mitchell Fourman and Varun Mehta | Ward Melville High School | Optimizing the Physical Properties of Various Polymer Blends by means of exposure to Supercritical Fluids | |
| Nikhilesh Ray-mazumder, Xiaodong Jiang, and Neil Chheda | Ward Melville High School | Synthesis and Characterization of 1-Decanethiol Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles | |
| Arvin Thachara and Chiu Felicia | The Wheatley School | Quantifying The Surface Structures and Properties of Hyaluronic Acid Thin Films | |
| Jonathan Yehuda and Anuraag Parikh | Roslyn High School | The Steinhaus Problem | |
| Kevin Zarrabi, Storm Liebling, and Dustin Liebling | Northport High School | Does Ursolic Acid Inhibit HNE Released from DNAase Treated Cystic Fibrosis Sputum | |
| Third Place | |||
| Behavioral Sciences | Stacey Kallem | POB John F. Kennedy High School | Self-Esteem and Schematic Processing as Precursors of Depression in Children |
| Kristen O'connor | Kings Park High School | Media, Peer Influence, and Self-Esteem as Predictors of Eating Disorders | |
| Nuara Siddique | Roslyn High School | The Compatibility of Couples | |
| Biochemistry/Gerontology | Katherine Aguila | Sachem North High School | The T-DNA Chaperons: Intracellular Localization and Protein-Protein Interaction |
| Merve Emre | Paul D. Schreiber High School | Screening for Alternate Reading Frame Protein (ARFP) in HCV-1 Transfected Huh7 Hepatocytes | |
| Jonathan Mogen | Half Hollow Hills HS West | Regulation of slp1 Transcription by Runt and Ftz Proteins in Drosphila Embryos | |
| Botany/Zoology | Khaivchandra Ramjeawan | Uniondale High School | ALL IN THE FAMILY: Using Phylogenetic Systematics to Develop a Family of Arsenic Hyperaccumulators |
| Chemistry | Kerry Lanigan | Kings Park High School | The Design and Synthesis of Water-Soluble Taxoids for Tumor-Activated Prodrugs in Cancer Chemotherapy |
| Computer Science | Alec Berntson | Smithtown High School | Applications of Neural Networks in Protein Crystallography |
| Engineering | Kathy Miu | Syosset High School | The Mobile Assistant for the Visually Impaired |
| Environmental Science | Erin Lowry | Sachem North High School | An Ecological Analysis of Cryptobiotic Crust Growing in the Long Island Pine Barrens |
| Mathematics | David Gorski | The Wheatley School | Equations of Non-Integer Powers |
| Medicine and Health | Bevin Cohen | Oceanside High School | A Comparison of Hand Hygiene Practices in Two Neonatal Intensive Care Units |
| Matan Setton | POB John F. Kennedy High School | Characterization and Optimization of Flow Across a Mechanical Heart Valve | |
| Microbiology | Lawrence Shieh | Manhasset High School | A Model Method for the Rapid Identification of Biological Warfare Agents |
| Physics/Earth & Space Sciences | Zachary Wissner-gross | Great Neck South High School | Discovery of Low-Current Second-Spike Winners in Models of Neuron Pairs |