Sophomore Varun Fuloria’s essay was chosen as one of the top eight winners in The New York Times Learning Network’s Student STEM Writing Contest. This year’s contest (the third since it was established) received 3,564 entries, each on a STEM topic that, per the rules of the contest, had to be explained in under 500 words. The subject of Fuloria’s essay was a species of jellyfish that is seemingly able to reverse its aging process and how examining it may help people develop treatments for degenerative disease.
Sophomore’s essay wins top eight in NYT writing contest

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