Congratulations to three Caddo Magnet High Students
Posted: Jan 17, 2012 8:53 AM
Updated: Jan 17, 2012 8:55 AM
THREE POSITIONS OF TOP FIVE AT LOUISIANA JUNIOR SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES SYMPOSIUM BELONG TO CADDO MAGNET HIGH STUDENTS
Shreveport, LA Jan. 14, 2012 - Caddo Parish Magnet High School, Shreveport is proud to announce that Henry Lin, Eleni Mijalis, and Sean Nathan placed 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, respectively, in the 2012 Louisiana Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS), and they will be attending the 2012 National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium in Bethesda, MD May 2-6, 2012.
Mijalis is a senior, and Lin and Nathan are juniors at Caddo Magnet. Mijalis is a participant in the Science and Medicine Academic Research Training Program sponsored by the Biomedical Research Foundation of Northwest Louisiana and LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport.
Nathan works in the laboratory of Dr. Lindsey Hutt-Fletcher in the Department of Microbiology at LSUSHC-S and focuses his research upon studying a link between head and neck cancers and the co-infection of Human Papilloma Virus and Epstein Barr Virus. Mijalis is the seventh consecutive high school student in the laboratory of Dr. Chris Kevil, Department of Pathology LSUHSC-S, to advance to the National Symposium. Her study involves investigating the efficacy of a molecular derivative of garlic in halting and possibly reversing type I diabetes. With no mentor and using mathematics and computer programming, Lin has developed a model of dark energy to explain the accelerating expansion of our universe
The Junior Science and Humanities Symposia program is jointly sponsored by the United States Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, in cooperation with leading research universities throughout the nation. Forty-eight regional symposia are affiliated with the JSHS program, reaching over 10,000 high school students and teachers throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, and in the Department of Defense Dependents Schools, Europe and Pacific Rim regions. The university sponsored symposia invite the participation of secondary schools within their regions.
The National JSHS brings together over 360 participants, including 240 high school students, their teachers and parents, university faculty affiliated with the JSHS, and other guests. Caddo Magnet has sent twenty-four students to the national symposium over the past fourteen years.