Science Fair
Center Newsletter Volume 7 Issue 1 Spring 2008

Kapil Ramachandran, a Senior at Westwood High School (Round Rock Independent School District), has won top awards for work performed in Dr. Nigel Atkinson’s laboratory. Kapil entered a project entitled “The Novel Role of the GluCl-α Ion Channel and Diazepambinding Genes in Alcohol Addiction” at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), the largest world-wide science fair for high school students. Competing against approximately 1,500 students from over 40 countries, Kapil won three prizes:

First Award of $3,000 in the Cellular & Molecular Biology Category

Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner

First Place Scholarship of $2,500, Addiction Science Award, co-sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education, and media company

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