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ISHA HIMANI JAIN TOPS US SCIENCE COMPETITION
An Indian American girl, Isha Himani Jain, has been declared national champion in one of the most coveted student science competitions in the US.The 16-year-old student of Freedom High School in Behtlehem, Pennsylvania,  won in the individual category of the Siemens Competition in Mathematics, Science and Technology. She has been awarded a $100,000 scholarship for her college education for having identified a cellular mechanism underlying bone growth spurts in zebra fish, similar to the way children's bones grow.   She is applying to Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Yale  to specialise in genetics, and want to eventually have her own lab. Isha dedicates her success to father Himanshu Jain, a chair professor at department of materials science and engineering at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, and her mother Sweety Jain, who practises family medicine. The entries were judged by a panel of scientists led by Joseph Taylor, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in physics and a professor emeritus at Princeton University.