Shruthi Ravichandran Places 1st in Junior Science and Humanities Symposium

Junior Shruthi Ravichandran is a first-place winner in the national Junior Science and Humanities Symposium. She presented her research “Site-Specific Delivery of Immune Agonists for Antitumoral Response of the Tumor Microenvironment” in the biomedical science poster presentation category.  

After 57 years of bringing students and researchers together for face-to-face national competitions, this year’s competition brought students and researchers together virtually over three days. Shruthi and the other national winners first presented their original scientific research at a regional competition. The top five students from each region—230 high school students in total—then participated in oral or poster presentations during the national event.

The Ohio Junior Science and Humanities Symposium is an annual event wherein students from all over the state present their original scientific research projects to earn scholarships from the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force, as well as an opportunity to compete in the National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium for additional scholarships.