Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
The problem of polyethylene pollution provides a solid basis for the creation of the new eco-friendly materials, such as bacterial cellulose. Objective of this project is to increase the eff…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Fourth Award
Last year’s research focused on synthesizing novel bipolar membranes (BPM) for fuel cells. The results showed that Pyrrole/Nafion™ BPM performance was at par or exceeded that of traditional…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Ocean acidification shifts Earth's oceans towards pH-neutral conditions. The global crisis has left thousands of coral reefs uninhabitable, jeopardizing marine biodiversity and resulting in…
Biochemistry
Fourth Award
Ovarian cancer, lung cancer, and follicular lymphoma are collectively attributed to 2.8 million deaths annually with an average treatment cost of $212,000. A prevalent mutation in the human…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
Klebsiella pneumoniae exhibits among the highest rates of antibiotic resistance and is currently the main cause of carbapenem resistant infections, yet there are no clinically effective trea…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Abstract reasoning and logic inference are difficult problems for neural networks, yet essential to their applicability in highly structured domains. In this work, the Neural Abstract Reason…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
The biological brain can do complex visual processing, object recognition, fine motor tasks, and more, all using very little energy. A traditional computer programmed to do these things woul…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease with over 10 million people suffering from it. Currently, diagnosis of PD is often late and inaccurate ~ 25% of the time,…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Cardiovascular monitoring at home is highly desirable for managing diseases such as heart failure. Existing technologies are inconvenient, too costly, and/or incapable of acquiring clinicall…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Artificial neural networks are biologically inspired computational structures that are capable of learning how to perform tasks heuristically. They derive this ability by imitating the struc…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
With computers and smartphones rapidly upgrading their capacity and processing speed, cooling using heat pipes has become increasingly important to protect fragile electrical components from…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Safe and precise robot-assisted intervention using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guidance requires motors that are fully MRI-compatible using no metallic or magnetic materials to ensure n…
Mathematics
Fourth Award
In this work I give a complete description of the language of geodesic words for the central extension of the Klein Bottle group with respect to the standard two-element generating set. I cr…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
In quantum metrology, we wish to study how quantum mechanics can be used to improve the measurement accuracy of physical quantities such as electric or magnetic fields. These fields, which a…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Existing experimental evidence has linked increased brainwave activity to enhanced working memory capacity. One of the renowned non-invasive methods for manipulating brain waves is binaural…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
The early diagnostic rate of pancreatic cancer (PC) is currently at just 9% as screening methods are unattainable, making it the fourth leading cause of cancer death. Many studies have achie…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Annually, adverse drug reactions cause 1.5 million hospitalizations. In practice, medicine is often prescribed by trial and error to determine the best drug and dosage. Genotypes influence t…
Embedded Systems
Fourth Award
LIDARs are imaging systems that obtain the model of the determined area in a virtual environment by directing the rays around the axes. LIDARs have various applications including mapping, mi…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are subpopulations of cancerous cells that are theorized to be the cause of tumor initiation and relapse. CSCs are especially dangerous because they are resistant to…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
When exploring the potential for life in the Universe, a star system’s habitability depends on both its internal structure, which sets up the building blocks for life, and its external envir…
Engineering Mechanics
Fourth Award
Research and crash data show that rear-end crashes in which heavy-duty vehicles are involved frequently cause severe injuries and deaths in cars and light commercial vehicles. Therefore, a b…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
There is a clear correlation between prolonged exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and development of lethal disease. Today, there exists no personalized, quantifiable measur…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Osteoporosis is a hard-to-detect disease involving bone degeneration. Most of the people living with osteoporosis are unaware of it until complications occur. Detection of calcium and phosph…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Commercial white-light LED lamps are typically made with InGaN blue LEDs coated with yellow phosphors containing rare-earth elements, such as cerium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG:Ce3+).…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Single use plastics are increasingly common in society, with waste from bottles, packaging, and containers filling up landfills and damaging ecosystems worldwide. At the same time, 3D printi…
Engineering Mechanics
Fourth Award
3d printing is becoming more important and useful every year. Almost every single engineering company uses 3d printing in some way. Despite this many schools don’t have 3d printers. This is…
Engineering Mechanics
Fourth Award
Last year I set out to research why it was so hard to stop a tsunami and what kind of barrier I could design that would limit the amount of devastation that one created. I found some remarka…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
The future of food production involves physiological growing adaptions to nutrients that will increase the nutritional value of crops. This study tests the ability of lettuce biofortificatio…
Engineering Mechanics
Fourth Award
Every year in California, broken utility poles and conductors ignite approximately 500 fires. In 2017 and 2018, four utility-caused fires destroyed 27,000 buildings, killed 133 people, and c…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
For more than 20 years, our Palestinian community has been suffering from an increase in the number of people who are diagnosed with cancer, which has reached about 12,000 cases in 2019, whi…