Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Yield forecasting is critical for ensuring food security, especially given the rise of extreme weather events. However, the USDA NASS only provides state-level forecasts by conducting costly…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Plastics, despite their benefits in transforming our lives in multiple aspects, have caused serious white pollution. The objective of this project is to create low-cost, sustainable chitosan…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Carbon dioxide has been linked to devastating anthropocene changes; rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and increases in natural disasters are all effects of global warming. MOFs are porous…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
Drug discovery, a complex and time-consuming process, heavily relies on determining affinities between drugs and targets. With the introduction of computational methods, researchers can now…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Hemiplegia is a type of paralysis where one side of the body experiences a loss of motor function. Hemiplegics may be confined to a wheelchair, which presents health issues such as low bone…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
The rapid intensification (RI) of tropical cyclones (TCs) is one of the greatest challenges for forecasters. Improving the skill for RI forecasts has been a top priority of the National Hurr…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Liver cancer is the third leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, resulting in over 800,000 deaths each year. About 90% of all primary liver cancers are characterized as hepatocellular car…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Lithium, the first-line treatment for bipolar disorder (BD), reportedly causes chronic kidney disease (CKD) in at least 20% of patients. To manage BD, physicians prescribe lithium carbonate…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that impacts memory by destroying the neurons of the brain cells. AD is characterized by the presence of two types of prot…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Neuroblastoma is one of the most severe tumors in young children with nearly 500 new cases reported each year. Currently, the only treatments available for this cancer are chemotherapy and r…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Parkinson’s Disease is a slowly progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by the death of dopamine-producing neurons. Due to a decrease in dopamine, patients suffer from both motor and n…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
West Nile virus (WNV) is the most impactful mosquito-borne disease in the United States. Since 1999, it has caused over 2,500 deaths and has seriously harmed quality of life for thousands of…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
Specialty metabolites used in food, medicine, pesticides, and fragrances are valuable in virtue of their unique properties, but they face challenges in production due to high costs associate…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Tuberculosis (TB), a bacterial disease mainly affecting the lungs, is the leading infectious cause of mortality worldwide before COVID-19. To prevent TB from spreading within the body, which…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
Increasing demand for housing and the production of sustainable energy causes the construction of unstable structures, such as tall buildings and wind turbines. To ensure that oscillations c…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Fourth Award
Herein, doped carbon materials are synthesized from biomass utilizing facile microwave irradiation for supercapacitor application. Lignosol is used as a carbon precursor while ammonium polyp…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
Discovering new antibiotics or identifying alternative therapies to address antibiotic resistance is pivotal. One option is bacteriophage (phage) therapy, which can be used to treat bacteria…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Fourth Award
The problem that my project solved was helping people with health conditions like muscular dystrophy and vision impairment explore and create music by replicating the experience of physical…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
A key drawback of traditional chemotherapy drugs like cisplatin is that they target both healthy and cancerous cells and are highly toxic in high or medium doses. The Warburg Effect states t…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Annually, 60,000 tons of textile wastewater are discharged into waterways. Azo dyes constitute a major proportion, polluting waterways by inhibiting light penetration; impairing marine organ…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Type two Diabetes is an epidemic. Because there is no cure for diabetes and the current treatments can be expensive and inaccessible, exploration for more affordable management tools for the…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
G-quadruplex structures (G4s) are one of many secondary structures that genomic DNA adopts, apart from its canonical B-form, and they are a vital part of cellular regulation. Sequences that…
Physics & Astronomy
Fourth Award
Our project is where we test different types of sports balls at different P.S.I. We tested this by using a homemade apparatus that we call the kicking machine. The kicking machine works in a…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
The development of kitchen supplies containing natural antibacterial agents conforms to the concept of green and healthy life. Inspired by the fact that the perilla leaf salad is not easy to…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Although mangroves occupy less than 1% of the global coastal area, they are one of the strongest natural ecosystems to fight climate change as they sequester up to 22.8 tons of carbon annual…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
Purpose: Liver cancer (Hepatocellular carcinoma) is one of the most common and fatal cancers. Subtypes associated with poor outcomes need proper characterisation. “Macrotrabecular-massive He…
Materials Science
Fourth Award
This project aims to develop a magnetic micro-train that can be remotely controlled by an external magnetic field to carry and release drugs to a targeted location to fight against diseases.…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Conventional agricultural practices have caused the world’s soils to release 133 billion tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere and are one of the major contributors to global greenhouse gas emi…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Jake Vignevic #29 7th Grade Junior Division Chemistry St Gregory the Great Catholic School Measuring Protein and Vitamin C level in foods after different types of cooking Food is an everyday…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
Since the 1930s, dark matter (DM) has accounted for a host of astronomical observations that cannot be explained using the standard physics model, such as the discrepancy in rotation curves…