New Jersey Student to Represent U.S. in Stockholm Junior Water Prize Competition

Sonja Michaluk has won the 2019 U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize (SJWP), a prestigious youth competition for water-related research. Michaluk, a student at Hopewell Valley Central High School in Pennington, New Jersey, explored the use of DNA barcoding to measure the health of waterways with larval Chironomidae (order Diptera), the most widespread macroinvertebrate family. She won $10,000 and an all-expenses paid trip to Stockholm, Sweden, to represent the United States at the international competition in late August. Students from 45 states and Puerto Rico competed in the national finals June 13-16 at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. The