SOCIETY UPDATE
TOP THREE REGENERON SCIENCE TALENT SEARCH WINNERS
Amber Luo, Christine Ye and Victor Cai (from left to right) are the top three
winners of the 2022 Regeneron Science Talent Search. They were selected
based on their projects’ scienti ic rigor, their exceptional problem-solving
abilities and their potential to become scienti ic leaders.Congratulations to this year’s Regeneron Science Talent Search top winners
BEST AND BRIGHTEST
On March 15, the Society for Science and Regeneron
announced the top winners of the Regeneron Science
Talent Search, the most prestigious science and
math competition in the United States for high school
seniors. Hosted in person in Washington, D.C., for the
irst time since 2019, the competition awarded more
than $1.8 million to this year's inalists.
Christine Ye (pictured above), 18, of Sammamish,
Wash., won the top award of $250,000 for analyzing
the gravitational waves emitted from collisions between
neutron stars and black holes and developed a novel
method for modeling rapidly rotating neutron stars.
Victor Cai, 18, of Ore ield, Pa., won second place
and $175,000 for creating a low-cost, short-range,
distance-sensing radar that is accurate to within
12 centimeters. The radar also operates at a narrower
bandwidth than traditional radars.
Amber Luo, 18, of Stony Brook, N.Y., won third
place and $150,000 for studying the process of
protein expression and how ribosomes move along
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