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Jenny Wu, Calhoun High School’s salutatorian for the class of 2011, was recently named a semifinalist in the annual Siemens Westinghouse Science and Technology Competition.
Calhoun senior named Siemens Westinghouse semifinalist
Calhoun High School senior Jenny Wu understands pain. As a volunteer in the emergency room at Mercy Medical Center in Rockville Centre, the 17-year-old has seen the agony of injury and disease –– and, she said, she wants to help. more
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‘Enjoyed’ Brinton’s column on Muslim world
To the Editor: As a Muslim American, I particularly enjoyed Scott Brinton’s column on American perceptions of Muslims, “When perception is reality in the Muslim world” (Sept. 16-22). more
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Kennedy High School had the work of four researchers accepted by the Long Island Junior Science and Humanities Symposium at Stony Brook University recently. They were Daniel Bornstein, left, Jeremy Roberts, third from left, Morgan Drucker and Stephanie Sager, who were joined by one of their research mentors, Advanced Placement biology teacher Barbi Frank.
Science students clean up at symposium
Ninety of Long Island's top science and mathematics students recently convened at SUNY Stony Brook's Charles B. Wang Center to compete in the prestigious Long Island Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, and in the crowd were five -- count 'em, five -- young Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District researchers, all seniors -- four from Kennedy High School and one from Calhoun. more
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Keri Grittani saved the head of Calhoun High School freshman Conor Murphy at this year's St. Baldrick's Foundation fundraiser to benefit childhood cancer charities.
St. Baldrick's fundraiser raises more than $30K
Students of all ages, parents and educators at Calhoun High School shaved their heads for a cause on March 16. The school's annual St. Baldrick's Foundation fundraiser brought in more than $30,000 to aid research into childhood cancers. The non-profit St. Baldrick's Foundation provided more than $12 million for research in 2009 alone. Participants in a St. Baldrick's fundraiser shave their heads in "solidarity with kids fighting cancer" and collect pledges in return for taking it all off. more
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Stefanie Bosgang, a Kennedy High School senior, was recently named a finalist in the American Academy of Neurology's Neuroscience Research Competition. She is joined here by her Kennedy research mentors, Barbara Franklin, left, and Barbi Frank.
Brain tumor leads to research success
In her freshman year at Kennedy High School in 2007, Bellmorite Stefanie Busgang suddenly started to lose her memory. The then 14-year-old couldn't remember how she got from one room to the next. "I was sitting in one place, and I'd be wondering how I got there," she recalled. more
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It’s health care, not Russian roulette
In 1992, at the end of my second term in the Senate, I was approached by several courageous women from Long Island. They sat me down in my Senate conference room and brought to my attention that Long Island was producing higher-than-average rates of breast cancer. more
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Health care, an issue of race and riches
Throughout the long, at times agonizing health reform debate, conservatives and insurance-industry lobbyists have argued that we don’t need a public insurance plan to compete with private insurers. more
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