Meet Rajarshi Mandal, the 16-year-old Lexington student whose malaria model showed the same mosquito-net supply could prevent twice as many infections; he won $50,000

Meet Rajarshi Mandal, the 16-year-old Lexington student whose malaria model showed the same mosquito-net supply could prevent twice as many infections; he won $50,000

For Mandal, the idea began with footage showing fishermen using donated mosquito nets as fishing material because the mesh was available when conventional fishing equipment was not. At 16, Rajarshi Mandal is already tackling a problem that has challenged public-health systems for decades: how to make limited malaria-prevention resources go further. The Lexington High School … Read more

Meet Alyssa Yu, the 17-year-old Maryland student who built a mathematical model for what happens when 2 interacting infections spread at once and how vaccination could target the resulting hot spots

Meet Alyssa Yu, the 17-year-old Maryland student who built a mathematical model for what happens when 2 interacting infections spread at once and how vaccination could target the resulting hot spots

Alyssa Yu (Poolesville High School, Poolesville, MD) A 17-year-old student from Maryland has developed a new mathematical framework to predict how multiple infectious diseases interact and spread through connected populations at the same time. Alyssa Yu, a senior at Poolesville High School in Montgomery County, created the computer model to address a major gap in … Read more