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St. Luke's 2025 Scholars - schedule coming soon!
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About the Program
The Scholars Program is for St. Luke's seniors eager to forge their own paths. After identifying a field or topic that fascinates and inspires them, students apply to the relevant Scholars program. If selected, each student then begins a deep dive into their chosen area of study - very much the equivalent of college-level work - that includes extensive independent research, consultations with faculty mentors, and, ultimately, a formal presentation of findings during St. Luke's Annual Scholar's Symposium. Many Scholars continue their research after their presentation.
You may view students' presentations and read more about the Scholars program, "the highest form of independent scholarship here on the St. Luke’s Hilltop," further down this page and in these stories from 2024, 2023, and 2022.
You may view students' presentations and read more about the Scholars program, "the highest form of independent scholarship here on the St. Luke’s Hilltop," further down this page and in these stories from 2024, 2023, and 2022.
Classical Scholars
Participants in the Classical Scholars program undertake an enriched study of Latin and Greek. A senior-year research project, including classical humanities, completes the curriculum.
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2025 Classical Scholars List
Lila Greenwald
How to Become Smarter, Faster: The Intersection of Classics and Cognitive Enhancement
Global Scholars
Seniors selected as Global Scholars complete in-depth analysis of a global issue, extensive language study, and an interdisciplinary capstone project.
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2025 Global Scholars List
Georgia Bennett
Lights, Camera, Connection: Film as a Cultural Bridge
Ainsley Birmingham
Memes Are the Message: How Memetics and Mimetics Work Through Political Art
Cassidy Cui
Speaking Success: How English as a Second Language Resources Shape Workplace Integration in the U.S. and U.K.
Bea Davenport
INTERPOL Unmasked: The Politics Behind Global Policing
Kate Edwards
The Dangers of Internet Censorship: How Turkey Uses Social Media to Sustain Erdogan’s Power
Lucie Geist
Our Neighbors' Encroaching Organized Crime Schemes: The Power of Mexican Drug Cartels
Ingrid Kerr
The People's Republic of China's Attempt to Erase the Uyghurs: Ethnic Cleansing in a Modern Day World
Sara Levitt
Do Influencers Control Your Opinions? Examining Social Media Influencers' Power Over Consumers
Phoebe McCance
Veiled Voices: Afghan Women Under Taliban Rule
Gigi McWhorter
In from the Cold, on to the Future: A Cold War Analysis of NATO
Grady Millones
One Step Behind: Examining Structural Inequalities in the African Prosthetic and Orthotic System
Will Moskowitz
Don't Stop 'Til You Drop: Karoshi and the Lethal Japanese Work Culture
Eloise Pakman
Why We Can't Have Nice Things: The Abuse and Misuse of Social Media by Terrorist Organizations
Maddie Winarsky
From Zero-COVID to Zero Tourists: Pandemic Policies and the Great Departure from Hong Kong and China
Literary Scholars
The Literary Scholars Program is a humanities-based intensive course of study that focuses on literary research, analysis, and interpretation.
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2025 Literary Scholar List
Laurel Aronian
Music to Meaning: Lyrical Power Uncovered in McEwan’s Atonement
Ali DeFilippo
"You've Got to Be Carefully Taught": The Radical Notes of Rodgers and Hammerstein
May Frelinghuysen
Reading Between the Lines: Was Jane Austen a Feminist?
Samantha Gerber
The Redemptive Whore: Nineteenth-Century Russian Prostitution in Dostoevsky’s Canon
Aviva Moss
Literature’s Best-Kept Secret: The Neglected Work of Aphra Behn
Josie Pines
"Pictures of My Own Heart": Tennessee Williams as the Fractured Female
Alex Sheinkin
How to Survive the Apocalypse: Chekhov's Comic Muse
Selia Sitzer
The Blood Jet is Poetry: Sylvia Plath and Women
Ella Thomas
Folklore and the Fanatic Heart: Yeats and the Reclamation of Irish Identity
Anna Yavenditti
Why Women Are Never Heroes: Actions and Reactions in Ancient Greece
STEM Scholars
The STEM curriculum includes the study of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Students complete a set of core courses and a year-long research project in an approved field of study.
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2025 STEM Scholars List
Jack Clavelli, Eric Millar, & Matheo Picon
Improving Air Quality: Carbon Monoxide Mitigation via Copper Manganese Oxide Catalysts
Hugh Demark
Platformer Pick-Me-Up: Mindful Video Game Design for Teenage Users
Brody Ebright & Lena Olbrys
Testing the Efficiency of Sustainable Fuel in a Thrust-Powered Car
Maggie Fleuette
Optimization of a Novel Squash Serve Simulator: Trajectory Analysis Across Temperature Variations
Enzo Fredericks
Predicting The Unpredictable: AI-Generated Brackets for the 2025 NCAA Basketball Tournament
Juliet Geraci & Leela Sharma
Exploring Hepatocytic Differentiation in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells
Alexa Lisher
Building for Bridgeport: Community-Driven Architectural Design
Liam Monahan
Novel Mathematical Models for Snow Crystal Growth
Isabela Orsatti
Examining the Negative Effects of Food Additives on Buccal Epithelial Cells
Georgi Owsley
Examining the Role of P-N Junction Dopant Identity in Solar Cell Efficiency
Emma Sherter
Simulation of the Bridge-Enhanced ACL Repair on a Porcine Model
Matt Staub
Flood Protection: Building a Manhattan Watergate
Sam Young
Quantifying the Efficacy of Deep Pressure Therapy Using the RestVest
Christian Xia
Measuring Permeability of Oral Mucosal Tissue Using Hydrogel Models
Cum Laude Society National Winners
St. Luke's Scholars have won three National Cum Laude awards for their work (three out of three entries) and each participant receives an honors distinction at St. Luke's graduation. This top honor is given to only one or two students nationwide.
Carolina Warneryd '19 won for her STEM paper, "Engineering a Sanitation Solution for the Guatemala City Dump."
Amelia Wyckoff '18 won for her Classical Scholars paper, "Villain or Victim: Sexuality, Gender, and Female Agency in Medea."
Sebastian Bates '14 won the award for his Classical Scholars essay, "A Wolf Among Many Hounds: Poetry, Politics, and Reform in Solon's Athens," which was published in the Concord Review.
Carolina Warneryd '19 won for her STEM paper, "Engineering a Sanitation Solution for the Guatemala City Dump."Amelia Wyckoff '18 won for her Classical Scholars paper, "Villain or Victim: Sexuality, Gender, and Female Agency in Medea."Sebastian Bates '14 won the award for his Classical Scholars essay, "A Wolf Among Many Hounds: Poetry, Politics, and Reform in Solon's Athens," which was published in the Concord Review.Presentations from 2024
2024 Scholars' Presentations
Presentations from 2023
2023 Scholars' Presentations
Presentations from 2022
2022 Scholars' Presentations
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