Microbiology
Fourth Award
The purpose of our experiment was to devise an effective yet cost-efficient means of killing microorganisms in drinking water. We created a self-sufficient attachment to Hippo Roller pushabl…
Biochemistry
Fourth Award
The native Olympic Oyster, Ostrea lurida, once populated the pays on the Pacific Coast. During the California Gold Rush, these oysters were harvested to the extent that they disappeared from…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
Current tissue culture techniques use labor intensive propagation of seedlings which require lab-grade equipment and sterile environments. North American farmers are estimated to lose millio…
Plant Biology
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine which amendment to soil, chicken manure or Miracle-Gro fertilizer, would help a snow pea plant develop quickest. Methods/Material…
Environmental Science
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals To attribute trends in black carbon, or BC, concentrations in personal exposure to micro-environments of certain conditions as accurately and reliably as possible, and to be…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
Aquaporin1a1 is an integral membrane protein that facilitates the transportation of water molecules across a cell. Previous research showed that morpholino knockdowns showed reduced transfer…
Mammalian Biology
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals With this experiment, I was aiming to gather information on how sounds could affect brainwaves. Previous studies have shown a correlation between brainwaves and mood. My goa…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Little is known about the potential effects of “GenX’s” release into the Cape Fear River Basin. As stated by Rachel Carson “If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals - eatin…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
Helicobacter pylori is a persistent bacteria with defense mechanisms against the stomach’s acidic environment, allowing it to predominate the lining of the stomach. It affects approximately…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
Plant diseases are a major threat to the environment and global economy. In India alone, 35% of crop production is lost to field pathogens and pests causing losses to farmers. Indiscriminate…
Mathematics
Fourth Award
This project aims to derive the polar equations from relation of the points on the center line of water that swirls from Butterfly sprinkler heads. The water path including the inner rim, th…
Biochemistry
Fourth Award
Ischemic stroke is one of the leading causes of death and permanent disability. Blood- brain barrier (BBB) disruption greatly contributes to ischemic brain damage. Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is one of the most lethal cancers, for it often develops metastasis after therapy. Previous studies have shown that cancer metastasis usually begins from e…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
Meteors are the visible tracks of small grains that enter Earth’s atmosphere from space. They collide with air molecules and create streaks of light in the upper atmosphere. The purpose of t…
Engineering Mechanics
Fourth Award
Preignition (PI) is an abnormal form of combustion that has recently emerged as a bottleneck towards engine downsizing and improved efficiency in spark-ignited engines. Several speculative t…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Hypothesis: CT scans are used to determine extent of traumatic brain injury (TBI), but are costly and have radiation exposure. Recently, the FDA approved the use of serum biomarkers in TBI,…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to analyze how the enzyme invertase converts sucrose into glucose and how this affects the amount of actual glucose digested from different fo…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
Lupine flour is a novel food ingredient derived from the endosperm of lupine beans and is increasing in popularity, primarily in Europe and Australia. Peanut allergy is the leading cause of…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
In the arid West, conversion of intermittent streams to arroyos makes the already limited water even less available to the ecosystem. This study used two drones (one we designed and built in…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Gold (Au) mining has detrimental environmental impacts on land and water (surface and groundwater) contamination. Tailing Storage Facilities (TSF), or mine dumps, may contain multiple contam…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
As computing systems become increasingly advanced and as users increasingly engage themselves in technology, security has never been a greater concern. In malware detection, static analysis…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
The purpose of this project is to determine whether two-mode squeezing (TMS) can be used for photon-number-resolving detectors (PNRDs) to generate an accurate photon count. We envisioned the…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
Kefir is fermented milk that is formulated with grains containing various bacteria and yeasts that coexist. In this study, the researcher has investigated the pro-apoptotic nature of kefir a…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
Disease diagnosis today is often late, unreliable, and expensive, leading to ineffective treatments, decreased quality of life, and premature death. In this project, we developed a novel end…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Climate change has caused diminishing water resources, affecting food crop yield globally. Frequent irrigation is necessary when soil moisture decreases but becomes a problem due to limited…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
The major result from recent studies is that there are two additional small images formed at the front and the back side of a convex lens, which were termed “secondary real images”. Secondar…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
Alzheimer’s disease diminishes one's ability to express thoughts and basic needs, causing communication issues between patients and their caretakers. To bridge this communication gap, a thou…
Zoology
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Hematopoiesis, or blood cell development, is a strictly regulated process and the maintenance of blood progenitors requires various pathways in cells. Deregulation of these…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
The expectation of global computer access is the norm. This has created a societal need for computer interface designs that provide digital access to demographics of individuals with limited…
Mathematics
Fourth Award
The chromatic number of the n-dimensional Euclidean space is the minimum number of colors with which the entire space can be colored so that every two points one unit apart have different co…