华裔学生大出风头 夺美国英特尔奖二三名

Yi Sun, California
Second Place: $75,000

Yi Sun, 17, of San Jose, submitted an Intel Science Talent Search project in mathematics that involves the winding number of a function, which, in the case of the plane, is the number of times it encircles the origin. The functions he considers are discrete random walks on the set of points in the plane with integer coordinates. A random walk here is a sequence of vertices such that with equal probability 1/4, a vertex in the sequence will be followed by the vertex directly above, below, to the left, or to the right of it. Yi asked how many steps one expects to take, in order to wind around the origin; he shows that this expected number of steps is infinite. A student at The Harker School, Yi reads French and Chinese fluently, captains the Quiz and Science Bowls, and enjoys swimming on the varsity team. Recipient of gold medals at international Olympiads in physics and math, he also received several awards in French and first place in the Mandelbrot Math Competition in 2005. The son of Dr. Lizhong Sun and Tianjing Shen, Yi was born in China. After completing mathematics studies at Harvard or MIT, he hopes to become a professor or research scientist.

Yuan Zhang, Maryland
Third Place: $50,000

MARYLAND
Yuan Zhang, 17, of Derwood, submitted a project in medicine and health to the Intel Science Talent Search. Chelsea studied the molecular mechanisms behind atherosclerosis, or arterial plaque buildup, a disease in which lipid-laden macrophages - fat-filled white blood cells - build up in the vessel wall. The cell-adhesion chemokine molecule CX3CL1 has been implicated in the process. In her study using human cells, Chelsea demonstrated that the adhesion of macrophages to arterial muscle cells was largely CX3CL1-dependent and that components of oxidized lipids increased its expression. She believes targeting the upregulation of CX3CL1 by oxidized lipids could yield drug treatments for atherosclerosis. Chelsea has perfect SAT scores in critical reading, math and writing and has earned numerous awards in writing, science and math. She hopes to attend MIT or Harvard and pursue a career applying information technology to research. She is managing features editor of the school newspaper and co-president of the computer team at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring. The daughter of Ruiqiu Zhang and Jingfen Wu, Chelsea was born in China and is fluent in Chinese.

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孙一好可爱．．　昨天晚上２６台新闻报道．．　问他回来第一件事．　想干什么？　他在电话那头用中文可可吧吧地说．．．

＂回来第一件事．　想和家人吃吨饭吧＂．．．　

中新社华盛顿三月十四日电，二00六年美国英特尔科学人才探索奖决赛名次今晚在华盛顿揭晓，华裔学生大出风头，孙一和张媛分别以数学和心血管研究项目荣膺亚军和季军，分获七万五千和五万美元奖金。

作为美国高中学生最负盛名的科学研究奖项，本届英特尔奖吸引了一千五百名高中高年级学生参与，最后进入决赛的四十名选手中，华裔学生占了七名。他们在华盛顿接受评委会的面试，最终决出前十名。来自加州圣荷西的孙一以解开一个复杂的数理公式名列第二；来自马里兰州洛克维尔的张媛以心血管病研究获得第三名。来自犹他州的珊侬·丽莎以环保研究获得冠军，独得十万美元奖金。

十七岁的孙一出生在上海，三岁随父母移居加拿大，五岁来到美国。此次他独自从加州来到华府决赛，获得亚军后，喜不自禁的孙一打电话向父母报喜，连呼“过瘾”。孙一的父母是化学家，孙一说父母的职业对培养他对科学的兴趣影响很大。他对记者说，中学生学业当然很重要，但也必须有广泛的知识面和兴趣爱好，关键是在其中找到平衡点。孙一通英语、汉语、法语，喜欢游泳，在国际奥林匹克物理和数学比赛中获得过金奖。他的目标是到哈佛或麻省理工学院主修数学，成为一名教授或科学家。

十七岁的张媛经历更多，近五岁时她随父母从天津来到阿拉斯加，然后又迁居弗吉尼亚和马里兰，小学就转了四次学。母亲吴静芬说，预感女儿会得奖，但没想到得了第三名，非常激动。她对本社记者说，女儿能有今天，其实全靠个人努力，父母只是起到引导的作用。父亲张瑞秋说，女儿小时候曾培养她对琴棋书画的爱好，到高中后学业紧张，但女儿依然参与医学研究。他觉得竞争环境对女儿促进很大。张媛则认为，做电脑工程师的父母为她提供了很好的科学氛围，对她帮助很大。她的强项是科学和数学，SAT得高分，在校报当编辑，还是学校电脑团队的共同主席。她说，未来有许多选项，目前尚未最后决定。

当晚进入决赛的另外五名华裔学生是纽约的张辉宇、芝加哥的张乐天、伊利诺伊州的王欣、马里兰州的邢春隆、密执根州的周聪。他们共同的特点是：出生在中国大陆，随父母来美，多才多艺，会讲流利中文，上学目标首选哈佛大学或麻省理工学院。

有个朋友跟孙一的爸爸在同一家公司，爆料说孙一小时候经常跑到爸爸妈妈的床上，爸爸妈妈就跟他一起做数学题玩。

孙一已经被他自己理想的学校哈佛和ＭＩＴ双录取。最让俺们高兴的是人家孩子这优秀法儿的，并不是一般意义上的ＧＥＥＫ。ＬＩＬＩ也说了，　人家孩子－－可爱着呢。

估计应该只有这一个。

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