Microbiology
Second Award
Sounds influence on bacterial growth is a very new and unexplored research field. The field is still in its infancy and the question of whether sound and/or ultrasound is a growth inhibitor…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Second Award
Methylmercury is a neurotoxin present in fish tissues that permeates the blood-brain barrier (BBB) after consumption. Previous research has shown that methylmercury is harmful to neurons, ca…
Physics and Astronomy
Second Award
The identity and behavior of the invisible dark matter, which constitutes most of the mass in the universe, is a central yet unresolved question at both the cosmological and quantum scales.…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Second Award
Low-frequency noise from marine shipping is an underwater acoustic pollutant in oceans. The noise spectrum overlaps with frequencies marine mammals use to communicate and navigate, leading t…
Physics and Astronomy
Second Award
There is no general closed-form solution for the long-term dynamics of stars in systems where three or more stars are orbiting each other. When considering only the effects of Newtonian grav…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Second Award
In today’s world, electric cars have a more prominent role within society, they provide numerous benefits such as instantaneous torque, thereby eliminating the outdated exponential torque cu…
Animal Sciences
Second Award
Bioluminescence is present in a diverse range of organisms. One of the most studied luminous organisms is the firefly, a member of the Lampyridae family. Firefly bioluminescence is produced…
Embedded Systems
Second Award
Drone development has been on the rise since the turn of the century and has expanded greatly from government use. Most high quality drones tend to be expensive and have a limited feature se…
Animal Sciences
Second Award
The existing studies in the broader literature have investigated epigenetics with the class Mammalia, contrary to the class Insecta that remained uninvestigated. To these ends, this study ai…
Chemistry
Second Award
Tetraponera rufonigra, also known as the bi-colored arboreal ant, is one of the most dangerous invasive ant species globally. Phospholipase from its stings lead to severe anaphylaxis in whic…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Second Award
The synthesis of a self-charging through light supercapacitor has been executed with exceptional energy storage properties. Conventional photo capacitors face a major disadvantage of relativ…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Second Award
Our survival depends on the brain's adaptation of information processing to changing cognitive demands; this ability stems from the interactions of specialized brain networks. At rest, netwo…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Second Award
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects one in fifty-four individuals born in the US. ASD hinders one’s ability to recognize emotions, causing difficulti…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Second Award
This study focuses on creating a machine learning model that will predict the spread of any invasive species. This study used hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA), an invasive forest pest that poses…
Biomedical Engineering
Second Award
High cost, proprietary parts, complex manufacturing techniques, and transport issues limited our ability to produce enough ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic. The goal of my project wa…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Second Award
Estimating the intensity of tropical cyclones (TCs) is one of the most important aspects in TC forecasts. Currently, the operational method of TC intensity estimation is the Dvorak Technique…
Engineering Mechanics
Second Award
Today, when we drive cars there is no indication of dangerous road conditions that could cause issues such as hydroplaning. Rain is substantially more dangerous than the other conditions bec…
Biomedical Engineering
Second Award
The ARTHETA-0 is a 3D printer with a novel motion system that specializes in printing vascular-stents. The stent manufacturing industry, as it stands, uses extremely inefficient and unafford…
Biomedical Engineering
Second Award
216,262,500. That’s the number of steps an average human takes over their lifetime, yet the shoes that humans use for this have not evolved over time and are found to have major flaws such a…
Biomedical Engineering
Second Award
Microorganisms are observed every day in the hopes of finding new developments that will help gain new insights into human health. Many organisms move quite fast under the microscope's field…
Biochemistry
Second Award
Current Cancer Diagnostic methods are inaccurate and time-consuming with invasive procedures, mostly resulting in late-stage detection. In contrast, we have strong evidence that treating can…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Second Award
Chronic sleep deprivation (CSD), a result of consistent sleep loss, is a global concern in more than half of adults worldwide. Research has shown that people with CSD are more susceptible to…
Mathematics
Second Award
It is a basic question in contact geometry to classify all non-isotopic tight contact structures on a given 3-manifold. If the manifold has a boundary, this classification is based on the di…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Second Award
Terrorism is one of the most prevalent problems in today’s world, with over 21,000 people killed each year and many others adversely affected as a result of terrorist activity. Terrorist net…
Animal Sciences
Second Award
Commercial quality assurance plans require ranches to maintain flock health programs that include periodic monitoring to evaluate vaccination response or disease exposure in egg laying chick…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Second Award
COVID-19 has infected over 114 million people as of March 1, 2021, pushing the world towards social and economic collapse. With cases rising rapidly and the current gold-standard for diagnos…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Second Award
The anti-estrogen tamoxifen is a highly effective hormonal therapy for hormonal (HR+) breast cancer patients. However, the estrogen receptor-negative, progesterone receptor–positive (ER-/PR+…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Second Award
This paper presents a deep learning model to detect ‘fake news’ through tone and sentiment in text. The primary challenge facing researchers in the ‘fake news’ detection field is a deficit o…
Environmental Engineering
Second Award
Annually, ~1.3 million gallons of crude oil spill into the ocean. Traditional methods of oil cleanup are difficult, costly, non-efficient, and environmentally harmful, all highlighting the n…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Second Award
Common genetic diseases—systemic diseases caused by thousands of mutations—affect millions of people around the world. Many of these mutations fall within regulatory regions. While the mutat…