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Bi-Stable Auxetic Stent for Enhanced Vascular Conformability Using Machine Learning and Finite Element Analysis

Biomedical Engineering Second Award

Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading cause of mortality worldwide, with most conditions requiring vascular stents to restore blood flow. However, complications such as restenosis—the r…

Computational Design of Novel Small-Molecule Activators Targeting the AtlA Autolysin in Multi Drug-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus to Combat Antibiotic Resistance Through Internal Cell Death Mechanisms

Microbiology Second Award

Antibiotic resistance is a major global health threat projected by the World Health Organization to cause 10 million deaths annually by 2050. Autolysins like AtlA, essential for bacterial ce…

Design and Development of an Adaptable Gear-Based Upper Limb Prosthesis Using Additive Manufacturing and a Novel Visco-Elastic Material

Biomedical Engineering Second Award

Developing functional prostheses, especially for the upper limb, has historically posed challenges. Amputation of the hand due to military injury, disease, or other trauma carries significan…

Design and in silico Validation of a Novel Fc-fusion Protein for the Treatment of Myasthenia Gravis

Cellular and Molecular Biology Second Award

Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a debilitating autoimmune disease of the neuromuscular junction that affects over a million people and can cause life-threatening muscle weakness. As current treatm…

Development of an Industrially Viable Oxytetracycline Nano-Formulation and OXYCHECK Detection System to Combat Citrus Greening: Year 3

Plant Sciences Second Award

Citrus greening, or Huanglongbing (HLB), is the most devastating citrus disease, affecting all major producers. Florida was the nation’s largest citrus industry before HLB caused a 75% decli…

Devising Metal-Organic Framework Technology for Scalable Direct Air Capture of CO2

Chemistry Second Award

Human activity and fossil fuel consumption continue to increase the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) content to extraordinary levels, compounding the greenhouse-gas effect and driving global…

Direct Pulse-Density-Modulated Bitstream Operators for Efficient Beamforming With Large Sensor Arrays

Embedded Systems Second Award

From tracking fetal heartbeats in ultrasound to pinpointing voices in noisy crowds, acoustic beamforming plays a vital role in healthcare, consumer technology, and public safety. Beamforming…

Dual Functional Catalyst for Green Hydrogen Production

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award

This study presents a novel approach to fabricate dual-functional catalysts with 3D hierarchical nanoarray structures for efficient urea-oxidation reaction and hydrogen evolution reaction in…

emoTune: New AI-Based Approaches to Assistive Technology for Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award

Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have difficulty with comprehension of facial expressions. Although assistive technology has been developed to help these individuals identify…

EnAct: A Safety-Aware Actionable Guidance System via Multi-Agent Vision-Language Models for People With Vision Impairments

Systems Software Second Award

Independent living for vision-impaired individuals requires them to perform daily object-reaching tasks, such as grasping an apple to eat. But without precise spatial awareness, even simple…

Engineering DNA Nanocrystals for Trigger-Responsive Drug Delivery: A Biocompatible Approach to Nanomedicine

Materials Science Second Award

Cancer’s therapeutic landscape is significantly limited; chemotherapeutics indiscriminately target rapidly dividing cells, adversely affecting healthy tissues. While targeted nanomedicines a…

Eutectogel 2.0: A Continuous Journey Towards Advanced Green Electronic Skin

Materials Science Second Award

The rapidly growing field of electronic skin faces a critical challenge: the development of interface materials that are conductive, soft, and compatible with human skin to effectively monit…

Evaluating the Efficacy of Novel Carbon Dioxide Spray and Pesticides Using a Convolutional Neural Network for Varroa Mite Treatment in Honey Bee Colonies

Animal Sciences Second Award

Honeybees are indispensable pollinators, contributing 80% of crop pollination and $183 billion to the global economy annually. Unfortunately, in the US, beekeepers lose 40-50% of commercial…

FallPoint: Fall Detection With 4D mmWave Radar Using PointNet and a Recurrent Neural Network

Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award

With increasing life expectancies worldwide, falls are becoming a prevalent challenge for the elderly. Rapid detection and alert after a fall is critical to reduce the extent of damage. Howe…

Flow Matters: How a Coral Can Divert Currents and Suffocate Corals Nearby

Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award

Coral reefs are one of Earth's most valuable ecosystems, but they are in decline, fueling a surge of restoration activity across the global tropics. Yet, despite significant scientific advan…

ForeCAT: Advancing Clear Air Turbulence Prediction for Aviation Safety With Atmospheric Physics Informed Neural Networks and Spatiotemporal Weather Data

Physics and Astronomy Second Award

Unexpected turbulence, particularly Clear Air Turbulence (CAT), remains one of aviation's most serious challenges, causing passenger injuries, operational disruptions, and costing airlines $…

From Hair to Harvest: Effects of Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots on Germination and Growth in Solanum lycopersicum (Tomatoes) Seedlings Using Keratin-Based Hydroponic Substrates

Plant Sciences Second Award

Hydroponic systems are an efficient method of plant cultivation that is gaining popularity due to its high yields and resource efficiency. However, current hydroponic substrates like mineral…

From Words to Actions: A Comprehensive Approach to Identifying Incel Behavior on Reddit

Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award

The incel (involuntary celibate) community is a radicalized online subculture. In this study, I focus on the popular social media platform Reddit and analyze the activity patterns and commen…

Gate OS: A Secure Rust Exokernel Based on Preventive Static Code Analysis With Process Domain Isolation

Systems Software Second Award

Traditional operating systems use multiple abstraction layers that simplify development but restrict customization and optimization. Gate OS, a Rust-based exokernel, minimizes abstraction ov…

Great Minds Think Alike, Great Models Think All at Once: MAESTRO, A Unified Framework for Video-Audio Understanding & Reasoning

Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award

Multimodal contents' increasing complexity poses significant challenges for Vision-Language Models (VLMs), particularly in hateful video detection. Hateful videos are inherently multimodal a…

High-Cadence Adaptive Reverberation Mapping of Variable Quasars to Resolve Light-Hour Accretion Disk Structures in Supermassive Black Holes

Physics and Astronomy Second Award

Supermassive black hole accretion disks, predicted to emit optical continuum from regions spanning light-hours, remain challenging to resolve via traditional reverberation mapping (RM) techn…

High-Performance Oxidizing Materials: Lithium Vanadium Oxide for Environmental Treatment Applications

Chemistry Second Award

One common environmental activity at school is collecting and sorting old batteries for recycling. However, it is just the first step of the treatment process for lithium-ion batteries, whic…

Hydrogen Safety Through Advanced Gas Chromic Coatings for Leak Detection in Next- Generation Storage and Transportation Infrastructure

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award

With the accelerated need for clean energy sources, hydrogen stands at the forefront of widespread adoption. Hydrogen leaks are difficult to detect due to the lack of odor, near invisible fl…

Innovative Application of Low GWP Refrigerants in Hydrate-Based Water Desalination

Environmental Engineering Second Award

Hydrate-based desalination (HBD) operates at lower temperatures and pressures than conventional methods, reducing energy consumption. HBD efficiency depends on refrigerant selection, influen…

Integrity: Generalized Artificial Image Classification With Noise Domain Localization

Systems Software Second Award

AI image generation models can now create and augment photographs at scale. Recent reports predict that AI-assisted misinformation will rank above warfare and natural disasters as the greate…

iSUM: Investigation of 3D Physical and Computational Models of Self-Uprighting Behavior in Pill Millipedes

Physics and Astronomy Second Award

Pill Millipedes play a vital role in humid forest ecosystems, functioning as decomposers and indicators of environmental health, thereby supporting biodiversity. One of their most interestin…

Lipid-Based Codelivery of Doxorubicin and siRNA PD-L1, as a Multi-function Chemo-Immunotherapy, Selective to Pancreatic Cancer via Its MUC1 Overexpression

Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award

Pancreatic cancer is the second leading cause of death, with 90% of occurrences as Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Currently, Doxorubicin (DOX) is the leading treatment for cancers.…

Low-Cost Portable Braille Embosser for Education,

Electronics & Electromagnetics Second Award

Modeling Bird Flu Mutation Patterns and Cross-Species Transmission Using Sequence Analysis and a Novel Contrastive Learning and Influence-tree Graph Attention Network (CLIGAT)

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award

Avian influenza (Bird Flu) is a highly transmissive pathogen affecting over 166 million poultry and posing significant health risks to humans. Despite progress on surface proteins, differenc…

Modulating Z-Axis Movement to Increase the Layer Adhesion of 3D Printed Parts

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Second Award

Globally, the most widespread 3D printing method uses FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling), which often suffers from poor layer adhesion. When a tensile or shear force is applied to an FDM printe…