Students from local high schools are invited to do research projects with our faculty as part of the national Westinghouse/Intel Science Competition. Students seeking a mentor should read the descriptions of faculty research and contact a likely professor directly. We have two semifinalists in 2006; see below.
 | Intel 2004 semifinalists at NYU Students, faculty, and graduate mentors (pictured from left to right): First row -- Naazia Husain, student in Phelps lab; Liz Phelps, professor of psychology and neuroscience; Rob Faludi, MA student in Carrasco lab; Sylvain Cappell, professor of mathematics. Second row -- Andreas Olsson, PhD student in Phelps lab; Laurence Maloney, professor of psychology and neuroscience; Denis Pelli, professor of psychology and neuroscience; Marisa Carrasco, professor of psychology and neuroscience. Third row -- Charles Peskin, professor of mathematics; Matan Harel (finalist), student with Peskin; Paulina Trzcinka, student in Maloney lab; Lyuba Azbel and Henny Admoni, both students in Pelli lab. Not photographed: Betty Kolod, student in Pelli lab, Adam Moss, student in Carrasco lab, and Sam Lewallen, student with Cappell. |
 | Intel 2002 semifinalists at NYU Gathering with the Intel semi-finalists they mentored are NYU Professors Denis Pelli (back row, far left), Larry Maloney (second from left), Sylvain Cappell (third from left), Charles Peskin (back row middle), Joan Gay Snodgrass (middle row, middle), and Marialuisa Martelli (first row, far left), a postgraduate researcher in Psychology. |
Year | Semifinalist's name | Project title | Faculty mentor |
2006 | Jake Baron (Stuyvesant High School) | "The limits of counting." | Denis Pelli |
2006 | Yi Cui (Bronx High School of Science) | "Skimming." | Denis Pelli |
2005 | Jordan Suchow
(Irvington High School)
 | "Learning to identify letters: Generalization in high-level perceptual learning." | Denis Pelli |
2004 | Henny Admoni
(Great Neck North High School) | "Counting features. Quantifying discrete parts in visual object identification." | Denis Pelli |
2004 | Lyuba Azbel
(Midwood High School) | "How do the deaf read? The paradox of performing a phonemic task without sound." | Denis Pelli |
2004 | Naazia Amina Husain
(Stuyvesant High School) | "Learned Fear of Phobic vs. Neutral Stimuli After Pavlovian Conditioning " | Liz Phelps |
2004 | Elizabeth "Betty" Kolod
(Midwood High School) | "How does learning sign language affect perception?" | Denis Pelli |
2004 | Adam Jacob Moss
(Oceanside High School) | "The Effects of Changes in Spatial Frequency on Visual Performance Fields Elicited by Motor Control" | Marisa Carrasco |
2004 | Paulina Trzcinka
(Townsend Harris High School) | "Questions Without Words: Human Movement Planning and Decision Making " | Laurence Maloney |
2003 | Samba Silla
(Stuyvesant High School) | "Gestalt rules the corner of your eye" | Denis Pelli |
2002 | Sarah Hersh
(Great Neck High School) | "Perceived surface orientation and perceived albedo." | Larry Maloney |
2002 | Moon Hee Lee | "Combining orientations to identify letters." | Denis Pelli |
2002 | "Amber" Yan Xiang Liang | "Readers Beware! Effects of Visual Noise on the Channel for Reading" | Denis Pelli |
2002 | Lixin Lisa Xu | "Contextual effects of implicit priming on perceptual identification." | Gay Snodgrass |
2001 | Sonal Batra
(Stuyvesant 2001)
| "Mothers' Expectations About Their Infants' Motor and Language Milestones." | Karen Adolph |
2001 | Anna Zubkina
(Stuyvesant High School) | "Investigating the process of visual search: localization and idenification of shapes" | Marisa Carrasco |
2000 | Nila Leigh
(Stuyvesant 2000; now at NYU)
| "Who needs cheeks?" | Denis Pelli |
1997 | Peri Kurshan
(Stuyvesant 1997; now at Brown) | "Reading Letters" | Denis Pelli |
1997 | Annie Livik
(Stuyvesant 1997; now at Cornell)
| “The effect of environment-based second language acquisition on mental retrieval processes” | Brian McElree |
