Category: High School Essay Contest Winners

ISEC First Place – Nuclear Security and Nanotechnology

Introduction The 13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States during October of 1962 was marked by the nuclear stalemate that became known as the closest…

ISEC Second Place – Next to Normal: Mood Disorders, Medicine, and Society

Mental illnesses are the leading causes of disability in the United States, with bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder affecting 2.6% and 6.7% of American adults respectively. But…

ISEC Winner: Neuroscience and the Law

Over the past two decades, advances in brain-imaging technology have allowed neuroscientists to investigate the once inscrutable human brain in greater detail than ever before.

ISEC Runner-Up: Humpty Dumpty without the King’s Men

Equating the human brain to ananthropomorphic egg from a children’s nursery rhyme may seem odd, but the comparison is apt for victims of traumatic brain injury (TBI).