Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Sanskrit/Devanagari, what may be known as a dead language in modern times, at one point was a rich and advanced language that was spoken by many people who lived as far back as 1700 BCE. Anc…
Systems Software
Third Award
Is it possible to measure the sentiments and emotions linked to words by analyzing their usage in different contexts? This experiment compares how feminine and masculine words are used in te…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
P38 alpha (MAPK 14) is a protein kinase implicated in the pathological mechanisms of myofibrillar myopathy, cancers, and inflammatory diseases like Alzheimer’s and rheumatoid arthritis. Alth…
Engineering Mechanics
Third Award
Flexibility in structure is required for rescue tasks in disaster relief. However, most current track robots are with rigid chassis structures which are not suitable for unstable terrains or…
Animal Sciences
Third Award
Orthoceras is an extinct genus of Nautiloids, characterized by a straight, conical shell. These inhabited seas 450 million years ago, and are related to cephalopods, which are keystone speci…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
There has been a 200-fold increase in nicotine poisoning-related hospitalizations over the past decade which can be attributed to the rising popularity of vaping. This study investigates how…
Animal Sciences
Third Award
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading international cause of morbidity and mortality and can significantly disrupt brain physiology resulting in substance abuse and sleep disorders. Dros…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
The purpose of this experiment was to measure the accuracy of in-stent nanosensors (1, 2, 3, & 4) at varying heart rates (60, 90, & 110 beats per minute) and varying levels of occlusion (70%…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
PM2.5, particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 µm, contributes greatly to current cardiorespiratory complications. Hence, the importance of modeling and predicting PM2.…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
This research was to design an artificial structure to house a calcite media that dissolves over an extended period of time and would have significant effects on (1) increasing the average o…
Engineering Mechanics
Third Award
Over 1.5 million people live in refugee camps around the world. Wind storms of over 80 miles per hour rip current refugee tents apart, destroying what little refugees have left. Regarding ou…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
Even in the 21st century, poverty is a global epidemic. Although U.S. charities receive over 400 billion dollars annually, the allocation of these resources is catastrophically inefficient.…
Systems Software
Third Award
Drowning detection in dynamic swimming environments is a challenging problem in computer vision, for which no satisfiable solutions have been found. Currently known methods primarily rely on…
Translational Medical Science
Third Award
I developed and implemented a Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) system that is fully autonomous, non-invasive, cheap, and effectively instantaneous, all while outperforming radiologists and oth…
Animal Sciences
Third Award
New Guinea flatworm (Platydemus manokwari), native to New Guinea, is extremely invasive. It has caused the extinction of native land snails on several Pacific islands, including Hawaii. Ther…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
Plant field testing proves often a long and costly process crucial to the development of efficient agricultural techniques. We aimed to create a plant topology simulator that presents a sign…
Engineering Mechanics
Third Award
Our project is AMSD drone and its aim is to help with rescuing people’s lives. In order to achieve that, we came up with an innovative, half-autonomic method of controlling the device. We ca…
Microbiology
Third Award
Each year, 2 million Americans acquire antibiotic-resistant infections and 23,000 die. Unfortunately, the scientific consensus is that no new classes of antibiotics are left to be discovered…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
Network states are prevalent in virtually all behaviors. In most cases, they are established by the actions of neuromodulators. To produce articulate behaviors, neuromodulators upregulate th…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Experiment Purpose Inside the earth’s mantle, chemical reactions take place between different rocks via a fluid-rock reactions which in turn influence their chemical properties. These reacti…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
Type 1 and 2 diabetics typically require exogenous insulin to maintain normal blood glucose levels. Insulin pumps have been shown to significantly improve quality of life and diabetes manage…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
A plummet in the research productivity of drug discovery has been observed in recent decades, with higher costs, longer timelines, and lower success rates of drug candidates in clinical tria…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Malnutrition is the leading cause of child death and treatment reaches only a small fraction of those in need due to costly recipes and inefficient supply chains. Here we develop a three-com…
Energy: Chemical
Third Award
With global consumption of fossil fuels at an all-time high, climate change has catalyzed one of the greatest sustainability challenges facing the world today. At the cutting-edge of materia…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
With advancements in science and medicine, the population of older adults has grown around the world in recent years. As a result, fall detection systems are necessary for the wellbeing of o…
Engineering Mechanics
Third Award
A quantitative analysis comparing player’s perceived quality of cello bows and rosins, and string motion has been carried out using a novel optoelectronic cello. Novel optical sensors direct…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Flood forecasting in India is carried out by the determination of the water level at flood forecasting stations. The level forecasts are issued once water levels in a station reach a predefi…
Engineering Mechanics
Third Award
Fatigue cracks are inevitable yet microscopic aircraft damages, often being the main factor leading to in-flight break-ups. Non-destructive testing (NDT) is generally used in detecting possi…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
According to UNICEF, Kenya has a very high prevalence of child mortality rate which is approximately 49/1000 live births. In 2017 Kenya had an estimated 502,860 children who had missed the r…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Antibiotic pollution in soils and groundwater is one of the world’s most pressing problems. There are 1.4 micrograms of antibiotics per liter of freshwater and 125,000 tons of antibiotics po…