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Novel Wearable Volatile Organic Compound Detection and Mitigation via Cumulative Solvatochromism and Dietary Modification

Environmental Engineering First Award

1.1 billion individuals worldwide, particularly low-income workers in remote settings, are unknowingly exposed to dangerous gaseous concentrations of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), accor…

Optimization of Green Lacewing (Mallada basalis) Survivability From Hatching and Foraging Behavior

Animal Sciences First Award

Mealybugs are a global pest problem that threatens plants in various settings. Using insecticides to eliminate mealybugs has been associated with harmful environmental and human health probl…

Optimizing Plant Microbial Fuel Cell Energy Output: The Effect of Anodic Substance and Configuration

Alternative Energy First Award

Fossil fuels account for the majority of our world's energy production and are also responsible for over 90% of the harmful carbon emissions in our atmosphere. Because of this, it has become…

Prevention of casualties and property damage due to home fires by using thermal imaging and software based occupancy detection

Electronics & Electromagnetics First Award

The annual loss of approximately 2,880 lives due to faulty or late alarms from fire detectors in house fires is a significant concern. To address this issue, I have developed a cost-effectiv…

Quantification and Optimization of Circular RNA Stability for Improved RNA Therapeutics

Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology First Award

As mRNA-based therapeutics like COVID-19 vaccines rapidly evolve, degradation remains a key limitation. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) possess a closed-loop structure, conferring enhanced stabilit…

Screening for Multiple Gastrointestinal Cancers With CanDELA: Low-Cost, Automated Gastrointestinal Cancer Detection Utilizing Magnetic Bead miRNA Extraction, Peristaltic Pump-Based Liquid Handling, miRNA Amplification and Fluorescence Spectroscopy With Support Vector Networks

Biomedical Engineering First Award

Annually, Gastrointestinal (GI) cancer affects 4.8 million people worldwide, and has 5-year survival rates as low as 8%. However, the survival rate increases to 70% if GI cancers are detecte…

Skew-Axis Cylinder Lens Optical System: Novel Method of Clinical Optometry of Astigmatism, Characterization, Theoretical Modelling, and Implementation

Physics and Astronomy First Award

Astigmatism is a cylindrical refractive vision defect that affects 30% of the world population. Current subjective optometry of astigmatism is complicated, has low accuracy, and is dependent…

Solar-Tracking Litterminator

Environmental Engineering First Award

The world is being faced with the detrimental crisis of litter pollution. Clean-up attempts would require precious human effort and widespread usage of expensive energy. However, if a robot…

Synthesis of a novel cyclic peptide-drug conjugate targeting CDCP1 for non-small cell lung cancer therapy

Chemistry First Award

Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is one of the most common causes of cancer deaths. Many chemotherapeutic agents non-specifically target dividing cells, thus requiring a higher dosage to a…

Tactical Drone Detection and Tracking using Machine-Learned Radio Interferometry: Lessons from Ukraine

Electronics & Electromagnetics First Award

The utility of inexpensive radio-controlled drones has never been clearer than during the present conflict in Ukraine. Remote-controlled aircraft—quadcopters, small planes, and even balloons…

Testing the Effectiveness of a Bioplastic Layer Bonded to Natural Chelating Agents on the Minimization of Lead Iodide Leaching in Perovskite Solar Cells and a Novel Antireflective Coating Derived from Corn and Lotus Leaf Imprints on the Cell

Earth & Environmental Sciences First Award

Due to the inefficiencies of silicon solar cells, scientists developed perovskite solar cells that are 20% more effective. Unfortunately, they are environmentally harmful and contain lead io…

The Earthworm Squirm: Multiple Sclerosis Hypnosis Investigating the Potentiality of an Alternative, Realistic Cure of Encephalomyelitis disseminata (Multiple Sclerosis) Using the Neoblasts from Dugesia tigrina (Planaria) on Lumbricus terrestris (Earthworms)

Translational Medical Science First Award

One-billion individuals, one in six, suffer from neurological disorders. Encephalomyelitis disseminata (MS) is primarily an immune-mediated disease of the central nervous system (CNS) where…

The Easiest Hard Problem: A Heuristic Solution to the Two-Way Partitioning Problem Using Probabilistic Algorithms

Mathematics First Award

The Two-Way Partitioning Problem is an NP-Complete problem that seeks to find a partition of a set of integers: given an input multiset S of n positive integers, separate the integers of S i…

The Effect of Intermittent Metabolic Switching (IMS) on the Cognitive and Behavioral Abilities of Mutant Drosophila, Leading to Brief Synaptic Neuroplasticity as an Alzheimer's Model

Behavioral and Social Sciences First Award

The goal of this experiment was to determine the effect of the Intermediate Metabolic Switching (IMS) diet on the short and long-term memory of mutant Drosophila due to neuroplasticity. Ther…

The Neurobiology of Suicide: Claudin-5 Is a Novel Biomarker of Suicide Pathogenesis

Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award

Every forty seconds, suicide steals a life, yet no biomarkers exist for suicide. Suicide has largely been investigated from a psychological lens, and therefore the pathogenesis remains uncle…

Transmission-Line Assessment and Review System (TARS): An AI and Robotics Enabled Drone for the Inspection and Maintenance of High Voltage Transmission Lines

Robotics and Intelligent Machines First Award

Working on high voltage power lines is a hazardous task, and the risks associated with this type of work are numerous and significant, proven by the electrical industry’s high mortality rate…

Two-Degrees-of-Freedom Transformable Wheel

Applied Mechanics & Structures First Award

Transportation has always been crucial to urban development. In the future, in “smart cities” where automated robots become highly involved with urban living by taking on laborious tasks for…

Understanding genetic and non-genetic factors impacting mental health in teenagers

Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology First Award

Mental health in teenagers is an important topic which we want to raise awareness on. We analyzed two aspects which can potentially impact it - genetic and non-genetic. For both genetic and…

What’s in Your Water?

Chemistry First Award

Objectives: I noticed that many people drink filtered water and bottled water rather than straight tap water. I wanted to prove that tap water has no statistically significant differences wi…

An Investigation Into Worldwide Electoral Systems and the Development of a Novel Internet Voting System

Systems Software First Award

Democratic elections are the instrument that enables people to select representatives to advocate for their beliefs. Distrust in elections is reflected in a steady decrease in voter turnout…

A Novel End-to-End Deep Learning Pipeline for Stereotactic Cranial Surgery Planning

Biomedical Engineering First Award

Cancer and cranial diseases are the second leading cause of death worldwide. Early diagnosis and well-guided medical care as well as accurate analysis are essential to improve patient life e…

Around the World in Eighty Days: Small Radiosondes on a Great Mission

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics First Award

More than 190 countries worldwide work together peacefully to gather crucial weather information. Every day, several thousand weather balloons are launched. They burst after a few hours and…

Attenuation of Adipocyte Hypertrophy in a Palmitic Acid-Induced 3T3 Cell Model Through Lupeol Treatment

Cellular and Molecular Biology First Award

Obesity is the enlargement of adipose tissue caused by consuming more calories than used by the body. Excessive fat accumulation in the adipose tissue forms adipocyte hypertrophy, which prom…

Automatic Assessment of Ovarian Cancer Features & MSLN Protein Overexpression from Histopathological Images using DL Abstract

First Award

BiDEx - A Screening System for Rapid Proactive Detection of Patients With Liver Fluke Infection Using a CNN Model To Detect Orphistorchis viverrini Eggs From Microscopic Fecal Images and a NN Model for Infection Risk Assessment

Translational Medical Science First Award

85% of Cholangiocarcinoma, a leading cause of mortality in Thailand and Asian countries, is caused by Orphistorchis viverrini (Ov) infection. “CASCAP” organization proactively diagnoses Ov i…

CANDraGAT: A Hybrid Fragment-Based Graph Attention Network To Improve Cancer Drug Response Prediction

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award

Cancer is a major public health problem that has caused over 10 million deaths worldwide in 2020. Precision oncology, which employs a patient's genetic profile of tumors to identify the most…

CarbNN: A Novel Active Transfer Learning Neural Network to Build De Novo Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) for Carbon Capture

First Award

Computational Analysis of the Cystic Fibrosis Lung Microbiome and Development of a Non-Toxic Quorum Quenching Cocktail Therapy To Inhibit Multispecies Biofilm Proliferation

Microbiology First Award

Bacterial biofilms account for 80% of all chronic microbial infections. ESKAPE pathogens form dense, multispecies biofilms that are resistant to most antibiotics. In this project, a combinat…

Defining the Mechanism of Fibroblast Death in Pulmonary Emphysema To Target Novel Therapies for COPD

Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award

There is currently no cure for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the third leading cause of death worldwide with over 70 million cases and 3.5 million deaths per year. Treatment…

Design of a Novel, Dual-Functioning, Tissue Plasminogen Activator and Anticoagulant Therapeutic for Rapid Ischemic Stroke Treatment

Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award

Stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide, with 15 million people suffering from its debilitating effects each year. 87% of strokes are ischemic, where an artery narrows or becom…