The Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS), the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and mathematics competition for high school seniors, named Jason Youm, a high school senior who joined MSEAS during summer 2024 as an RSI scholar, among the top 300 scholars out of nearly 2,500 in the competition. Each scholar will receive $2,000, and their schools will also receive $2,000 to use toward STEM-related activities. Jason’s research with MSEAS was on “MSEAS-ParEq for Ocean Acoustic Modeling in the New England Seamount,” and was advised by Marcoul Robin. His Regeneron STS project title was “Average Rényi Entanglement Entropy in Gaussian Boson Sampling.”

This is an extraordinary accomplishment deserving of much celebration, so congrats Jason!