Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
The project consists in the elaboration of a measurer of radon gas through the conditioning of a Geiger-Müller counter, with the purpose of making a portable, less expensive and more precise…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Plastics are responsible for several damages to the environment. They, annually, cause more than one million birds’ deaths and other 100 thousand marine mammals’ deaths. On the other hand, p…
Energy: Chemical
Fourth Award
The goal of this project is to address two main issues, climate change and the growing demand for energy. As we all know, the biggest reason why we have increased levels of CO2 emissions in…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
This study of the Jovian system aims to determine the patterns of deviation magnitude produced from the orbital trajectories of the Galilean satellites based on three different parameters: t…
Plant Biology
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine how dietary protein would affect grass morbidity in response to dog urine. Methods/Materials A children#s swimming pool was planted with soil…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
The purpose of this project was to investigate the significance of the relationship between the use of modern information technologies and the exacerbation of procrastination among teenagers…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
The objective of this research was to determine if Eastern Oysters and Hard Shell Clams filtration ability to naturally filter and improve the overall water quality would be affected if the…
Toxicology
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to see if honeybees are being exposed to neonicotinoids, and if I can completely eliminate or control the exposure of neonicotinoids to my col…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
The Bio-Photovoltaic Fuel Cell (BPFC) is a promising new technology that generates clean electrochemical energy using the photosynthetic activity of organisms. However, existing BPFCs use ex…
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to examine the effects of wind patterns on carbon dioxide concentrations by using data showing the effect of the Santa Ana winds on the…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
An effective “catch-all” cure for cancer remains elusive, but one promising target that could be used in such a cure is telomerase because it enables replicative immortality, has near ubiqui…
Zoology
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals This project was designed to determine the effects of varying concentrations of phytoplankton on the larval arm to body ratio of Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, which is esse…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a locomotor disease characterized by toxic aggregation of the protein a-syn in neurons. In recent research, mice with a PD-causing mutation failed to exhibit dise…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Oceans make up seventy percent of our world, containing the most diverse ecosystems. The ocean also serves as a gigantic carbon ‘sponge’, absorbing humanities excess carbon dioxide. At the c…
Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
Honeybees apis mellifera are an essential part of global crop production and are responsible for $200 B annually, but honeybee colonies are suffering major losses. Varroa mites (varroa destr…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
Escherichia coli O104:H4 is an enteroaggregative/shiga-toxin (Stx) producing strain and the cause of many fatal diseases. Recent literature identified a direct correlation between expression…
Materials Science
Fourth Award
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) show great potential as sensors and optoelectronic devices. To enhance their potential, methods to functionalize TMDs’ fluorescence properties are of…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Differences between how females and males perceive social signals about feelings, intentions and motives of those around them and experience and display empathy for others i…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
Bacterial meningitis is the inflammation of the meninges and subarachnoid cerebrospinal fluid caused by bacterial infection. E. coli K1 is a major cause of neonatal meningitis, which has bee…
Biochemistry
Fourth Award
Biofilm-based infections pose two major problems: extreme resistance to antibiotics and many other conventional antimicrobial agents and extreme capacity for evading the host defenses. Dispe…
Embedded Systems
Fourth Award
Many allergies can induce anaphylactic shock leaving one disoriented. The current response to anaphylactic shock is the administration of epinephrine via an auto injector followed by a trip…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Gender Bias and stereotyping in human interaction is not uncommon. Sometimes, it could be intentional and sometimes sub-conscious. For example, consider the following description of a man an…
Materials Science
Fourth Award
Hydrogen gas is considered as the best candidate for efficient and clean energy source that can replace petroleum in the future. Hydrogen gas has been found to have a wide range of applicati…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) is an ancient legume species known for its high protein content, excellent nutritional benefits, nitrogen-fixation ability and adaptive capabilities in cool climate…
Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
Massive waste disposal is one of the crises found in Thailand. More alarming, the waste’s decomposing process takes approximately 100 years to be degenerated in landfill. Many studies have s…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Every day millions of loads of laundry are done in in the United States alone. Many, if not most, include synthetic fibers. During washing, micro-plastic fibers are released from the fabric,…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
There is a need for people who are struggling with anxiety-related disorders as well as general stress to be able to improve the quality of life and overall health. The purpose of the experi…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Industrialization and urban stressors have accelerated the increasing levels of the most dangerous contaminants in our water bodies, heavy metals, because of their non-biodegradability, thei…
Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
Vocal behavior of birds is linked to individual recognition, mate and parent-chick bonding, and enhancing social bonds. However, geographically-specific dialects have been observed in bird a…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
The purpose of this project was to characterize human galectin-4 and its anti-microbial properties against self-like antigen bearing gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria while identifyin…