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[UPDATED] Voting now open for 3M Young Scientist Challenge Improving Lives Award
As a top 10 finalist in this year's 3M Young Scientist Challenge, eighth grader Reshma Kosaraju is eligible to win the Improving Lives Award. Voting is now open!
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Senior’s UCSF internship research published in Nature, covered by The Atlantic
During the summers following her sophomore and junior years, senior Anika Tiwari worked as an intern at the University of California, San Francisco. The project, which investigates especially...
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Harker Science Bowl team wins third regional championship in four years
On Saturday, a team of Harker students won the US Department of Energy’s Regional Science Bowl, held at Stanford University’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. It was Harker’s third victory in four...
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Harker team wins poster award at young physicists tournament
Last month, seniors Finn Frankis and Sahil Gosain, juniors Arya Maheshwari and Saloni Shah, sophomore Sasvath Ramachandran and freshman Tiffany Chang competed at the 2020 US Invitational Young...
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Anand Natarajan ’09 co-authors landmark proof with team of computer scientists
A team of computer scientists including Anand Natarajan ’09 recently published a proof that has solved “a raft of open problems in computer science, physics and mathematics,” writes Quanta Magazine’s...
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Student project named to the top 10% in ExploraVision contest
Harker eighth graders Anish Jain, Jordan Labio, Kyle Leung and Vardaan Ghai received an Honorable Mention in the Toshiba/National Science Teaching Association ExploraVision contest, one of the world’s...
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Harker students perform well at state level in TEAMS, national conference...
Harker students had another great year in the Technology Student Association’s annual TEAMS (Tests of Engineering, Aptitude, Mathematics and Science) competition, with four teams taking top spots in...
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Middle and upper school students win big at 2020 Synopsys Championship
Harker students had a great showing at the 2020 Synopsys Science & Technology Championship, winning multiple first awards and grand prizes. Eighth graders Gautam Bhooma and Ramit Goyal were each...
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Lower school science students submit creative experiments
In May, lower school science teacher Enni Chen’s kindergarten and grade 2 students submitted photos and videos of experiments they conducted at home. For a lesson in capillary action — the mechanism by...
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Alumna offers students advice on careers in environmental advocacy
Last week, middle school science teacher Tamar Hawk invited environmental activist Tiffany Duong ‘02 to speak with her students about careers in environmental advocacy. Duong, who attended Harker from...
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Middle school summer class teaches research principles and practices
This summer, middle schoolers with a passion for scientific research enrolled in the Summer Science Research Society (SSRS), a special class in which the students do individual research on topics of...
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15 students named to the Broadcom MASTERS Top 300
Yesterday, the Society for Science & the Public announced that 15 Harker students -- a school record -- are among the top 300 contestants in the 2020 Broadcom MASTERS program.
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Freshman wins Wells Fargo Community Innovation Award
Last week, freshman Sriram Bhimaraju received the third place Wells Fargo Community Innovation Award in Arizona State University’s Sustainability Solutions Science Fair at the middle school level.
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MS LID director Abigail Joseph named to CSTA Board of Directors
Last week, Dr. Abigail Joseph, middle school LID director, was appointed to the Computer Science Teachers Association’s Board of Directors.
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Student work published in peer-reviewed health policy journal
Junior Riyaa Randhawa was recently published in the Milbank Quarterly, a peer-reviewed journal that covers health care policy.
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Senior research on low-cost masks published in peer-review journal
Senior Hari Bhimaraju recently published a paper in the Biometrics & Biostatistics International Journal, a peer-reviewed journal specializing in biological sciences and public health.
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Four seniors named scholars in 2021 Regeneron Science Talent Search
On Jan. 7, the Society for Science and the public announced that seniors Shray Alag, Saloni Shah, Aditya Tadimeti and Sidra Xu were named four of the top 300 scholars in the 2021 Regeneron Science...
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Bajaj ’20 published in New England Journal of Medicine
Simar Bajaj ‘20 was recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals.
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Bajaj ’20 speaks to students on racism in medicine
Last week, Simar Bajaj ‘20 gave a presentation to Harker students to expand on the points made in an essay he co-wrote that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in January. In the...
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Science teacher releases third book in series about the elements
Raji Swaminathan, middle school science teacher, recently published the third book in her series about the elements. As with the previous two entries, this book follows Atom and her dog, Electron, as...
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