Earth and Environmental Sciences
Second Award
Arsenic, a WHO-classified carcinogen and neurotoxin, has gained widespread notoriety, potentially affecting 250+ million globally. Current arsenic detection methods require frequent sampling…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Second Award
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a neuroinflammatory demyelinating disease that affects over 2,000,000 individuals worldwide. Although the exact etiology of the disease is unknown, the main sympto…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Second Award
Ingesting marine biotoxins such as domoic acid (DA), a neurotoxin produced by the diatom Pseudo-nitzschia spp., and paralytic shellfish poison (PSP), a neurotoxic byproduct of the saxitoxin-…
Biomedical Engineering
Second Award
Sending experiments to the International Space Station is expensive; therefore, clinostats are used to perform microgravity simulations. Although 3D clinostats provide an accurate simulation…
Chemistry
Second Award
The contamination of heavy metal ions in water sources can adversely affect the environment. Existing detection methods are impractical and inaccessible for field testing due to monetary cos…
Systems Software
Second Award
Every year, 4000 human errors occur in the operating room. Surgical workflow recognition is a burgeoning field of study that aims to combat this problem by analyzing medical video and identi…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Second Award
Nowadays, the balance between speed and accuracy in object detection neural networks is an ongoing issue with a lot of active research. Some architectures are dealing with it specifically bu…
Mathematics
Second Award
The purpose of this research is to enumerate the number of ways of dissecting a convex polygon with arbitrary prescribed conditions on the allowable polygon pieces. It is well known that the…
Physics and Astronomy
Second Award
EXoplanet ConfIrmaTIoN throuGh transits (EXCITING) is a project that determines the validity of TESS Objects of Interest (TOI) exoplanet candidates. The project aims to identify false positi…
Microbiology
Second Award
Most HIV-1 drugs act as passive defenders to inhibit viral replication inside the cell, while a few function as gatekeepers to combat viruses before viral entry. These entry inhibitors are d…
Microbiology
Second Award
Bacterial biofilms account for 80% of all chronic microbial infections. ESKAPE pathogens, particularly Pseudomonas, form dense biofilms that are impenetrable by most antibiotics, making chro…
Biomedical Engineering
Second Award
Foot conditions are an extremely prevalent issue worldwide, and are detrimental to the physical and emotional health of those affected by them as it prevents active and social lifestyles. Ex…
Translational Medical Science
Second Award
Atrophic macular degeneration (AMD) affects 200 million people worldwide. There is no FDA-approved therapy for this disease, the leading cause of irreversible blindness among people over 50.…
Plant Sciences
Second Award
Brassica juncea, an allotetraploid species, is an important germplasm resource for canola improvement, due to its many beneficial agronomic traits, such as heat and drought tolerance. Moreov…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Second Award
Cancer immunotherapy has led to vast improvements in long-term survival for patients with cancers like melanoma. However, the low response rate of immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy li…
Physics and Astronomy
Second Award
For much of the history of science it has been postulated that the behavior of dynamical systems, such as atmospheric circulation via convection, can be fully predicted once the parts are co…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Second Award
Mosquitoes, particularly the Aedes genus, are responsible for the transmission of Zika, Dengue, West Nile, and Malaria, which have no vaccines/treatments available. These result in 700millio…
Systems Software
Second Award
The necessity of developing and deploying interactive web applications quickly has become more prevalent over the last decade, resulting in developers creating libraries and frameworks to si…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Second Award
Microswimmers are microscopic-scale machines that are designed to perform and undergo specific movement in response to external stimuli. In this project, a magnetically-powered multi-segment…
Translational Medical Science
Second Award
Cardiac mesenchymal cells (CMCs) are novel, promising stem cells that improve heart function in rodents after myocardial infarction (MI) and may soon be used in clinical trials. Stem cells a…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Second Award
Starch-derived biofuels from first-generation feedstocks, like Zea mays (corn) and Saccharum officinarum (sugarcane), dominate the bioenergy market. The competing applications of these conve…
Mathematics
Second Award
The analysis of human coronaviruses and the confirmed cases of COVID-19 reinfection are indicative of waning immunity present to some degree in patients recovering from COVID-19. Therefore,…
Physics and Astronomy
Second Award
Muons are elementary particles produced by cosmic radiation that have a very consistent flux, making them useful for experimentation. Muons have been used in experiments to detect magma flow…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Second Award
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the leading cause for blindness in the U.S. Current research on artificial intelligence based DR diagnosis shows promise but still has room for improvement befor…
Chemistry
Second Award
In the past decade, photocatalysts have been used to create important biomolecules by facilitating electron transfers between different compounds in the presence of visible light like sunlig…
Physics and Astronomy
Second Award
Current phased-array (PA) antenna systems utilize beamforming techniques that are optimized for 2D surfaces. Therefore, the implementation of these systems is limited to flat surfaces. To so…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Second Award
More than 95% of the approximately 7000 orphan diseases in the world do not have effective treatments, and since orphan diseases are conditions that affect a limited population, there is lit…
Translational Medical Science
Second Award
PANDwriting is a novel system for diagnostic assessment of neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) using handwriting kinematic analysis, particularly targeted to increase Alzheimer's Disease (AD) a…
Animal Sciences
Second Award
The knee joint strength of 43 turkeys, 44 chickens, and 37 guinea fowl was studied by recording various musculoskeletal measurements of the leg, as well as the force required to luxate the k…
Microbiology
Second Award
Annually in the U.S., over 1 million hospitalized patients acquire surgical site infections (SSIs), urinary tract infections (UTIs), or central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI…