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Science is My Favorite Subject

Mar 15, 2007

You know you've made it when the science you've pioneered is breaking into the high school curriculum. This article from the New York Times reports on the Intel Science Talent Search, a national high school science fair held this week. Winner Mary Masterman built a spectrograh for $300, and another contestant who placed in the top five contributed a study of microRNAs.

 

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