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Almost a dozen 京东影业影视传媒 & the Public alumni were recognized with fellowships from the Davidson Foundation on September 21, 2016 at the聽annual fellowship award ceremony.

Twenty recipients total in the fields of聽science, engineering, music, literature, technology, math, and an 鈥渙ut-of-the-box鈥� category were honored with awards. Eleven聽Society alumni of the Regeneron聽Science Talent Search (previously the Intel STS), Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, and Broadcom MASTERS competitions were included.

Below are the Society alumni who received Davidson Fellowships:

2016 Davidson Fellows聽

$50,000 scholarships

• Meena Jagadeesan, 18, Naperville, Illinois,聽won a top scholarship. Meena was a 2016 Intel STS finalist. Her project is titled:聽The Exchange Graphs of Weakly Separated Collections.
• Christopher Lindsay, 17, Honolulu, Hawaii, won a top scholarship. Christopher was a 2014 and 2015 Intel ISEF finalist. His project is titled:聽Kahakai to Hohonukai: Environmental Studies of Marine Biota Using Underwater Time-Lapse Photography and Multiple Camera Arrays at Various Depths.
• Sriharshita Musunuri, 16, Mill Creek, Washington, won a top scholarship. Sriharshita was a 2015 and 2016 Intel ISEF finalist.聽Her project is titled:聽Application of Tetrahedrite and Magnesium Silicide in a Novel Thermoelectric Unicouple to Generate Electricity from Industrial Waste Heat.

$25,000 scholarships

• Anurudh Ganesan, 16, Clarksburg, Maryland, won a $25,000 scholarship.聽Anurudh was a 2016 Intel ISEF finalist. His project is titled: VAXXWAGON: An Innovative Eco-Friendly “No Ice, No Electric” Active Refrigeration System for Last-Leg Vaccine Transportation.聽Anurudh’s聽grandparents had to carry him to a vaccine facility in Southern India. Based on his experience, he聽created a small refrigerator powered by the turn of a wheel to store and transport vaccines.聽After five聽iterations of his prototype, Anurudh said the most important thing was learning the science behind building a refrigerator and that failure is just an opportunity to learn more.
• Raghav Ganesh, 14, San Jose, California,聽won a $25,000 scholarship. Raghav was a 2014 Broadcom MASTERS finalist, and a semifinalist in 2015. His project is titled:聽Serene: An Assistive Biomedical System for Autism Spectrum Disorder.
• Katherine Hudek, 17, Grafton, Massachusetts,聽won a $25,000 scholarship. Katherine was a 2016 Intel STS semifinalist. Her project is titled:聽Science: Quacee: A new Quantum Programming Language for Specifying Quantum Computations.
• Wyatt Pontius, 18, Sterling, Virginia,聽won a $25,000 scholarship. Wyatt was a 2015 and 2016 Intel ISEF finalist. His project is titled:聽Science: Reinventing the Leaf: A Novel Biohypbrid Photosynthetic System.
• Maya Varma, 18, Cupertino, California,聽won a $25,000 scholarship. Maya was a 2016 Intel STS finalist, a 2015 Intel ISEF special award winner, and a 2011 and 2012 Broadcom MASTERS semifinalist. Her project is titled:聽A Wireless Smartphone-Based System for Diagnosis of Pulmonary Illnesses.

$10,000 scholarships

• Surabhi Mundada, 17, Olympia, Washington,聽won a $10,000 scholarship.聽Surabhi was a 2014-2016 Intel ISEF finalist. Her project is titled:聽MyGlove: Assisting Hand Movements, Grip, and Tremor.聽Surabhi wants to create a higher quality lifestyle for those with limited movement from聽tremors.
• Kavita Selva, 16, Houston, Texas,聽won a $10,000 scholarship. Kavita was a 2016 Intel ISEF third place award winner in physics and a聽2014-2015聽Intel ISEF finalist. Her project is titled:聽From Nano Defects to Mega Power: Heavily-Zirconium-Doped Trapped Field (Gd,Y)BaCuO Superconductor Tapes for High Power Wind Turbine Generators. Kavita said she wants to apply her research to MRIs.
• Josephine Yu, 17, Potomac, Maryland,聽won a $10,000 scholarship. Josephine was a 2016 Intel STS finalist. Her project is titled:聽Lattice and Continuum Models of Solitons and Vortices in Bilayer Graphene.