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A Novel Home-Built Metrology to Visualize Oral Fluid Droplets and Quantify the Efficacy of Masks

Materials Science First Award

A Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating the Differential Efficacy of Ginkgo biloba, Ginseng, Curcuma longa Linn. and Vinpocetine on Spatial Learning and Memory in Mice

Behavioral and Social Sciences First Award

There is some evidence indicating that Ginseng, Ginkgo biloba (G.biloba), Curcuma longa linn. (C.longa linn.) and Vinpocetine have a role in ameliorating memory impairment. These findings ha…

A Self-Replicating 3D Printer

Engineering Mechanics First Award

The self-replicating machine will revolutionize human industry. Not only will self-replicating factories raise the standard of living across the globe, but it is also a vital step toward a s…

Butyrate: Bridging Bench to Bedside -- Bringing Hope for Better Diagnostic and Therapeutic Options for Peanut Allergies

Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award

Background: Distinctive roles for T-lymphocyte:Bacteroides fragilis cross-talk occurs in dampening peanut allergic responses. Butyrate is key to B.fragilis regulation of immune homeostasis.…

Classification of Tight Contact Structures on a Solid Torus

Mathematical Sciences First Award

Cyclo.Plas 2: A Dual Focus Development as Alternative Materials to Plastic by Upcycling Fish Scale Waste Components

Environmental Engineering First Award

Designing and Building a Custom Phased Array Network Using Software-Defined Radio

Electronics & Electromagnetics First Award

Designing, Prototyping and Testing a Novel Urinary Catheter with Tesla Valves and a Microporous Membrane

Biomedical Engineering First Award

Catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) result in 13,000 deaths in the US annually. The Foley catheter design promotes biofilm formation - the underlying cause of CAUTIs. In Ph…

Development of an AI-Powered Powered Facial-cue Control Module

Systems Software First Award

This research started with the development of an app with customizable facial-cue based control. It led to a fundamental challenge at the center of all temporal data analytics: determining t…

Development of a Novel AI Drought-Stress Assessment (AIDA) Model in Bell Pepper (Capsicum annuum) Plants Using a Custom-Built Robotic RGB + Infrared (IR) Camera

Plant Sciences First Award

Drought impacts 40% of the world’s population, and an estimated 55 million people globally are affected every year. It is the most serious threat to crops in nearly every part of the world,…

Digital Phenotyping Autism: Investigating Objective Vocal and Movement Quantification for Characterizing Autism Severity

Behavioral and Social Sciences First Award

Autism Spectrum Disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder that lacks objective diagnostics. The current gold standard, Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS), suffers from problems su…

Dilated Silhouette Convolutional Neural Network: A Novel Deep Learning Framework for Real-time Human Action Recognition

Robotics and Intelligent Machines First Award

With a wide range of applications in artificial intelligence (AI), human action recognition is one of the most attractive yet challenging research fields. It has the potential to foster natu…

Distinguishing Bacterial Motion Quantitatively: A Diagnostic Method for Intestinal Disease

Microbiology First Award

Gastrointestinal illnesses afflict more than 100 million people in the U.S. alone and are often indicated by gut microbiota motility. Typically, swarming bacteria are indicators of infection…

Dual Mode Soft Wrist-Fingers Exoskeleton for Hand Rehabilitation and Assistance: Novel Soft Wrists, Optimized Soft Fingers, Multi-functional Rehabilitation

Biomedical Engineering First Award

Rehabilitation needs of hemiplegic patients have gained great concern all over the world. According to disadvantages of current rigid or soft hand rehabilitation devices, a novel dual mode s…

EGFRNet: Transfer and Multi-task Learning Based on Graph Convolutional Network Toward Multi-target Drug Discovery Against Cancers for EGFR-Family Proteins

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award

The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) family proteins, consisting of HER1-4, are the most prominent causes of various human cancers, including breast, gastric, esophagus, lung, pancrea…

Engineering Multi-Enzyme Whole-Cell Biocatalysts for Biofuel Production

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award

In this project, I successfully studied the relationship between multi-enzyme biocatalyst structure and performance and developed a comprehensive quantitative model to predict the assembly e…

Evolution of the Cat's Eye Nebula Revealed Through Morpho-Kinematic and Hydrodynamic Modeling

Physics and Astronomy First Award

The planetary nebula known as the Cat’s Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) has a complex, point-symmetric morphology that is unexplained by the current theory of planetary nebula formation, the Interacti…

GLAS: A Global Landslide Analytics System

Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award

Landslides cost billions in damage annually in the U.S. & have affected 4.8 million people over the past 2 decades. Landslide forecasting is therefore a critical task for protecting human li…

HemaVision: A Deep Learning and Computer Vision-Based Mobile Screening System for Rapid, Inexpensive, and Automated Diagnosis of Hematological Diseases

Robotics and Intelligent Machines First Award

Hematological or blood diseases afflict over 2 billion people globally and disproportionately impact developing regions, where mortality rates reach 50-90%. Current screening methods require…

Identifying Natural Flocculating Proteins for Affordable Anti-Microbial Sand Filters

Environmental Engineering First Award

An estimated 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation and 780 million people to improved water sources worldwide. This is due to the high expense and difficulty of traditional f…

Implementation of Novel Semi-Supervised Machine Learning Model into Autonomous Irrigation Network Optimized for Power Self-Sufficiency

Engineering Mechanics First Award

Agricultural irrigation wastage, especially from inefficient infrastructure in developing nations, is among the leading causes of the global water shortage epidemic, which affects an estimat…

Investigating the Efficiency of Carpobrotus edulis, Kelp, and Walnut Shell Bioethanol in Comparison to Corn Ethanol Using Percent Yield and Mass Fractionation

Chemistry First Award

Novel Prediction of Adverse Drug Reactions and Underlying Pathological Mechanisms via Hierarchical Classification

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award

Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) represent a significant threat to public health, causing an estimated 100,000 deaths annually in the U.S., but accurate predictions of ADRs caused by drug-drug…

Novel Ultra-Low-Density Nickel Aerogel

Chemistry First Award

Aerogels are the least-dense class of solid material available today, with an enormous surface area relative to their weight and volume due to their porous nature. This makes aerogels attrac…

Plasmids of Curtobacterium: A Nexus of Carbohydrate Utilization Genes

Microbiology (General) First Award

Produced Water Treatment and Reuse to Mitigate the Environmental Impact of Oil and Gas Production

Environmental Engineering First Award

Produced water generated during oil and gas production is primarily disposed of through deep-well injection, which is costly, has limited receiving capacity, and induces seismicity. Produced…

Quantifying Volume of the Dana Glacier Using Field Measurements and 3D Modeling

Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award

The Dana Glacier, located in the Sierra Nevada mountains, is rapidly melting away. I wanted to measure the volume of the remaining ice. This is difficult as there is no way to directly obser…

Stem Cell Behavior and Osteogenic Differentiation on Plant-Derived Scaffolds

Biochemistry First Award

Suitable vascular and porous structures are critical in tissue engineering scaffolds. Through years of convergent evolution, the geometry of plant and animal tissues has become increasingly…

TeleAEye: Low-Cost Automated Eye Disease Diagnosis Using a Novel Smartphone Fundus Camera With AI

Translational Medical Science First Award

One billion people are blind or visually impaired due to a lack of access to eye care. The World Health Organization has established early detection as a key factor in the prevention and tre…

The Fast and Inconspicuous: New Near Earth Asteroids Discovered Using Deep Learning and Synthetic Data Are Fainter and Move Faster than Those Previously Discovered

Physics and Astronomy First Award

Asteroid collisions pose a significant danger to Earth. For instance, the Chelyabinsk meteor of 2013 led to ~1500 injuries. NASA’s goal was to find 90% of city-annihilating asteroids larger…