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Sacret Heart students receive NYIT grants
Mazaroski called her project “Challenging Bar riers for Diverse Clinical Participants Three students from Sacred with Traditional vs. Online Heart Academy were named Recruitment Strategies.” “I did a lot of research over recipients of New York Instit u t e o f Te ch n o l o g y M i n i - the summer this year on cliniResearch Grant Awards on Feb. cal trials and how, because of 15, allowing them to pursue recent technology, they’ve been their civics projects with $300 able to use online multi-marketplaces,” she explained. She stipends. Junior Katherine Mazaroski explored the best methods for sampling particia n d s o p h o m o re s pants for clinical Isabella Cabrera t r i a l s t o av o i d and Sameera skewed results, Rampertab created because, Mazaroski ambitious STEM said, common stratprojects as part of e gies — such as their AP Science sourcing a small seminar at Sacred STEPHEN SuLLivAN number of subjects Heart, an all-girls Director of research, Catholic school in Sacred Heart Academy from sites like Reddit and Craigslist Hempstead. — will yield a Mazaroski and the team of Cabrera and Ramp- group of people that may not be e r t ab we re e a ch aw a rd e d a good representation of the grants. NYIT’s Mini-Research general public. “It’s really imperative that Grant program is in its eighth year of supporting high school you have diversity in clinical students’ research with sti- trials, because of the distinct biological differences between pends that cover the costs of tools, materials and other individuals of different geoexpenses. It is open to students graphical, racial or gender in the metropolitan area, and groups,” she said. Mazaroski won a grant from attracts about 200 applicants a year. The pro g ram awards NYIT last year for a project grants for 25 projects per disci- comparing the effectiveness of pline in engineering, physical different treatments for lumbar therapy, computer science and Continued on page 5 biochemistry.
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Sameera Rampertab tested peers’ memory, blood pressure and heart rate to study the effectiveness of mindfulness exercises.
Katherine Mazaroski’s project focused on the importance of correcting statistical bias in data collection.
T
hese grants help a lot.