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Early Detection of Drought Stress Through a Novel AI Drought Assessment (AIDA) Model in Field Grown Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) Plants Using a Custom-Built "Spectra-Rover"

Plant Sciences First Award

Drought is the most serious threat to global food production and sufficiency. Late detection of drought stress in plants leads to irreversible crop damage and yield loss. The standard method…

ElSa: A Novel Real-Time Wildlife Poacher Detection Solution Leveraging Machine Learning-Driven Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Nighttime UAV Thermal Infrared Videos

Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award

Wildlife poaching of endangered species such as elephants in Africa has become a biodiversity crisis, which has also been highlighted by the United Nations Sustainable Development Biodiversi…

Engineering a Bifunctional Metal: Organic Framework for Efficient and Cost-Effective Hydrogen Production and Storage

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award

Hydrogen is one of the cleanest forms of energy storage that, when burned, produces only water as a byproduct. Nevertheless, the use of hydrogen is greatly limited due to the costly material…

Eqwis: Rapid Animal Detection and Driver Warning System To Mitigate Animal Vehicle Collisions Using Artificial Intelligence

Environmental Engineering First Award

Wildlife-vehicle conflict poses injury/mortality risks to both drivers and wildlife. Eqwis detects animals approaching roads and alerts drivers through intelligent road signs, encouraging dr…

Eukaryotic Algicide: Environmental Remediation of Harmful Algal Blooms via Microencapsulation for Bioactivation of Programmed Cell Death

First Award

First Insights Into a Novel Synchronous Reluctance Electric Motor Design

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics First Award

With the goal of achieving greater environmental and economic sustainability, the automotive industry has begun transitioning to electric vehicles (EVs). However, the challenge is that the p…

FollowMe: AI To Revolutionize Cortical Visual Impairment

Behavioral and Social Sciences First Award

The most prevalent vision impairment in young children worldwide, cortical visual impairment (CVI) is caused by damage to the visual cortex or optic nerve. State-of-the-art therapy technique…

Geolocation of Wireless and Radio Emitters in Real Time

First Award

Improving the Degrading Rate of PETase and Developing Highly Efficient Enzyme Activity Screening Strategies

Environmental Engineering First Award

Plastic waste poses threats to both the environment and human health. PET is the world’s most common plastic. Compared to traditional methods to treat PET waste, biodegradation is environmen…

Investigating Epigenetic Modifications in Chromosome Structure in Cardiomyocyte Differentiation Mechanisms for Heart Disease Treatment

First Award

iPonder: A Multimodal and Anonymous Approach to Remote Teen Mental Health Diagnosis and Peer-Based Conversational Therapy via Deep Transfer Learning and Computer Vision

Behavioral and Social Sciences First Award

Suicide is the second leading cause of death for teenagers. Depressed teens feel obligated to deal with these serious issues by themselves to avoid burdening those around them and keep quiet…

Mechanisms of High-Salt Diet-Induced Learning Deficit in Drosophila

Animal Sciences First Award

Salts are important for nerve conduction. However, excessive salt causes defects in learning and memory in mice. To investigate the mechanisms of salt-induced learning impairment, I used Dro…

Modifying the ABCs of Number Theory

Mathematics First Award

The abc-conjecture (Masser and Oesterlé) is an active problem that has remained open for several decades. The conjecture would imply a direct proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem and also shine ne…

Neuron-Specific Dropout: A Deterministic Regularization Technique To Prevent Neural Networks From Overfitting and Reduce Dependence on Large Training Samples

Robotics and Intelligent Machines First Award

In order to develop complex relationships between their inputs and outputs, deep neural networks train, and adjust, a large number of parameters. To make these networks function at high accu…

Novel Plant-Derived Scaffolds Influence Cellular Mechanotransduction and Differentiation

Biochemistry First Award

There is a significant global need for tissue engineering scaffolds that are comparable to human tissue. Interestingly, the plant kingdom presents a striking similarity to human tissues, esp…

Polyethyleneimine Impregnated Adsorbents for a Community-Based Carbon Capture and Sequestration Approach

Chemistry First Award

Traditional Carbon Capture and Storage uses a combination of technologies to capture, transport, and store carbon dioxide (CO2) from large point sources such as coal or natural gas-fired pow…

Project Vision: Virtual Environment Through Artificial Intelligence Recognition

Embedded Systems First Award

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are around 1.3 billion visually impaired people, 36 million of which are blind. A predicted 79 million more will be blind in the next…

Reconstruction Modeling Using Tectonics and Climate of Western North America

Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award

As the Basin and Range province is one of the most biodiverse regions, advancements in reconstruction modeling of geologic-climate changes are necessary to investigate potential associations…

Recurrent Repeat Contractions: Investigating a Novel Genomic Factor of Polymorphism in 10 Human Cancers

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award

Replication errors represent two-thirds of cancer mutations. A novel replication error subset, recurrent repeat contractions (rRCs), lack systematic examination in cancers due to complex amp…

Selective Dehydrogenation of Formic Acid Using an Efficient Cost-Effective Ruthenium-Based Catalyst for Generating Power in Automobiles

Chemistry First Award

Hydrogen is a promising renewable energy carrier. However, it has the lowest density of all other substances, so it needs to be compressed to run a car. Formic acid (FA) is an attractive liq…

Skew-Axis Cylinder Lens Optical System: Physical Properties, Application for Novel Method of Clinical Optometry of Astigmatism, and Engineering Implementation

Physics and Astronomy First Award

Astigmatism is a cylindrical imperfection of the optical system of the eye that normally should be spherical. The optometry of astigmatism, so-called subjective refraction, involves multiple…

Soft Origami-Inspired 3D Print-In-Place Artificial Intelligence Robots

Robotics and Intelligent Machines First Award

Covid-19 pandemic leads to an increased need for automation in food industries. Current soft robots require cast molding, high assembly effort, large actuators and upfront actuation awarenes…

Synthetic DNA Engineering With ICOR: Improving Codon Optimization With Recurrent Neural Networks Towards Efficient, Low-Cost, High-Efficacy Recombinant Vaccine and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Biomedical Engineering First Award

In protein sequences—as there are 61 sense codons but only 20 standard amino acids—most amino acids are encoded by more than one codon. Although such synonymous codons do not alter the encod…

Utilizing InSb/Si Quantum Dots for the Development of Next-Generation Multivalued High-Mobility Transistor Technology

Physics and Astronomy First Award

Transistors themselves have not fundamentally changed in decades, with all advances in the field focused on merely decreasing the size of transistors. This is a problem as soon it will be im…

Year 5: Developing a Novel Multiple Linear Regression Model To Optimize Honey Bee Gut Immunity Using a Lactic Acid Bacteria Probiotic Mixture

Animal Sciences First Award

Honeybees are essential to society, performing over 80 percent of worldwide pollination. However, commercial hive populations have been decreasing at an alarming rate in the United States. R…

A Low-Cost Computer-Aided Lung Auscultation Apparatus and Automated Diagnosis of Respiratory Illnesses

Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award

After losing my grandfather to COPD, I was determined to develop an accessible method for diagnosis of chronic respiratory illnesses. The objective of my project was to design and create a h…

Analyzing Text Corpora to Determine the Emotional State of Humans

Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award

A Non-invasive Electromyographic Interface for Hand Gesture Recognition with Active Noise Suppression Using a Combined Biosignal Processing Algorithm

Embedded Systems First Award

I created a universal electromyography interface with active noise suppression for recognizing hand movements because I’m interested in Human Machine Interfaces. This device could have broad…

A Novel 3D Printed Ventilator for COVID-19

Mammalian Biology First Award

A Novel and Efficient Method of Persistent Homology to Detect and Remove Topological Errors in Triangle Mesh Data

Mathematics First Award

Motivation: Many applications in the medical and engineering fields benefit from identifying topological features in a three-dimensional geometric model. Problem statement: When an object’s…