The other Intel semifinalist from TAMS is Manu Unni , son of C.K. and Santha Unni of Odessa. TAMS has produced 15 semifinalists for this honor since 1993 . Agarwal conducted her research last summer and the summer of 1998 at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, where her father, Neeraj, is an assistant professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology. She worked with Dr. Thomas Yorio, chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences and dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and Dr. Stephen Grant, an assistant professor in the Department of Integrative Physiology. When I had the opportunity to research glaucoma, I took it .
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Agarwal attended Crowley High School before entering TAMS in August 1998. She is talented not only in science, but in music, playing the violin in the Fort Worth Youth Orchestra. Agarwal is also active in the TAMS Forensisc Society and the TAMS Judicial Board. She is a National Merit semifinalist. She plans to earn a bachelor's and graduate degrees in molecular biology and become a researcher.