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An Investigation of Jet-Assisted Surface-Mounted Actuators in Laminar and Turbulent Boundary Layers

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Third Award

Flow control offers an appealing method to improve efficiency, stability, and performance of aerodynamic bodies. Jet Assisted Surface Mounted Actuators (JASMAs), a form of hybrid (active and…

An Investigation of New Brown Dwarf Spectral Binary Candidates From the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Initiative

Physics and Astronomy Third Award

My study examines three new brown dwarf spectral binary candidates, CWISE J072708.09-360729.2, CWISE J103604.84-514424.4, and CWISE J134446.62-732053.9, which were discovered by citizen scie…

A Novel Enhancement of Statins’ Solubility with Hydroxypropyl BETA-Cyclodextrin Inclusion Complex via Molecular Dynamics and in vitro Validation

Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award

The prediction and optimization of drug solubility in various formulations play a pivotal role in drug development. Statins (STN), a widely prescribed cholesterol-lowering drug family, exhib…

A Novel Machine Learning Model for Estrous Cycle Classification

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award

The estrous cycle regulates reproductive events and hormone changes in female mammals and is akin to the menstrual cycle in humans. Monitoring the cycle is necessary as it is a biomarker for…

A Novel Shade Dome to Reduce Water Evaporation in the Great Salt Lake

Environmental Engineering Third Award

Utah’s Great Salt Lake (GSL) is facing a critical situation, with projections indicating its potential disappearance within five years. This could cause an unprecedented environmental, healt…

Apparent Temperature Optimisation for Commercial Operations in Portable Buildings

Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award

The tropical climate of Darwin, Northern Territory of Australia, is notorious for unbearable temperatures exceeding 32C (90F) daily. Often felt in indoor environments, this leads to heat exh…

Aqua-Arsenic Remediation: Analysis of the Oryza sativa metagenome and Wet-Lab Approach to increase O. sativa Tolerance to Drought and Arsenic Through Hyper Expression of Aquaporin OsNIP2;1, OsNIP3;2, OsPIP2;2 genes (Year IV)

Plant Sciences Third Award

According to the US Department of Agriculture, drought decreases the crop yield of rice, the most common source of nutrition worldwide, by nearly 18%. Coupled with arsenic contamination in t…

A Rigid-Elastic Hybrid Finger Exoskeleton Rehabilitation System (FERS) for Stroke Patients With Motor Impairment

Biomedical Engineering Third Award

Rehabilitation needs for stroke patients with motor impairment have garnered great attention worldwide. Addressing the limitations observed in existing hand rehabilitation devices, particula…

Autonomous Driving Agents Trained by an Algorithm Based on NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (Neat) Using a New Logarithmic Fixed-Point Number System Optimized for Microcontrollers

Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award

In recent years, multi-agent systems have become increasingly more prominent in robotics, factories, and space exploration. This brought up a new class of control theory problems usually ver…

Bacteria on City Buses

Microbiology Third Award

BeeMind AI: Development of an AI-Based System to Assess Honeybee Health, Behavior, and Nutrient Effects on Learning and Memory

Animal Sciences Third Award

This research proposed and built the first integrated AI-based honeybee health assessment system called BeeMind AI. It includes eight different sensors, allowing it to track in-hive and exte…

B.O.P.I : Black Pepper, Oregano and Pineapple Peel Insecticide as an Novel, Cost-Effective and Eco-friendly Fumigant to Eradicate Sitophilus oryzae

Chemistry Third Award

Sitophilus oryzae, commonly known as the rice weevil, is a stored grain pest responsible for potentially destroying up to 90% of stored grain worldwide. In an effort to eradicate it, various…

Characterization and Therapeutic Application of the ICOS Receptor To Treat Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma

Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award

Peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) is a rare and aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma resulting from clonal proliferation of mature post-thymic T-cells. The mechanisms behind PTCL development and…

Chemical Modification of Acetaminophen to Decrease Liver Toxicity

Chemistry Third Award

Each week, over 60 million individuals consume acetaminophen in the U.S. alone. Despite global reliance for its analgesic & antipyretic (pain & fever relief) properties in medications, aceta…

Clear: Utilizing Glasses-Based Beamformers to Improve Speech Clarity and Spatial Context for the Hearing Impaired

Biomedical Engineering Third Award

Hearing loss is the fourth most prevalent disability worldwide, affecting one in five people, and is correlated with depression, isolation, and decreased life expectancy. Innovation in heari…

Cocoa’s Cognitive Triumph: The Rescue of the Alzheimer’s Model of Drosophila melanogaster With Theobroma cacao Supplementation

Animal Sciences Third Award

Alzheimer's disease, the most prevalent form of dementia affecting over 24 million people worldwide, is characterized by cognitive decline and progressive neurodegeneration; this is mainly d…

Continuous Hemodynamics Monitor: Novel Smart Sensor for Real-Time Postoperative Cardiac Care

Embedded Systems Third Award

Importance: Decompensated heart failure causes 3 million rehospitalizations. This is a result of current ineffective and inaccessible cardiac monitoring standards, which rely on symptoms tha…

Cost-effective Ultrasound Utilization on Cement-Based Composites for Scalable Fabrication of Bifunctional All-solid-State Ultracapacitors

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award

In response to immense international energy demands, the industrial sector must witness a historic alteration for bulk energy storage with a wide range of up-scaling spectra for commercial u…

Coupling High-Efficient Redox Flow Desalination and Rejected Brine Towards Mineralization of CO2

Environmental Engineering Third Award

Both the disposal of rejected brine and CO2 emission are the most significant challenges associated with the desalination process. Herein, we present an integrated approach that utilizes a r…

Creating an Artificial Intelligence Neural Network to Critique Expressive Piano Performance

Technology Enhances the Arts Third Award

Classical music education is a complex field requiring the teacher to evaluate a student based on audio and visual information. However, this approach can be error prone and biased. This pro…

Cross-Section Transformer: An Innovative Foldable Wheeled Robot With Flexible Configuration

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Third Award

Pipeline is a typical complex environment, and pipeline robots greatly improve work efficiency. However, the existing robots have limited forms, and lack of passibility and flexibility. So t…

DEList: Identifying Cancer Genes Associated With Circadian Regulator ARNTL2 Using a Novel RNA-Seq Multi-Dataset Strategy

Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award

Circadian disruptions have been implicated in the oncogenesis of multiple cancers. However, the underlying mechanisms linking circadian rhythms and cell cycles remain unclear, posing a signi…

Democratizing Desalination: Study of Materials and Methods To Make Desalination Less Energy Intensive and Affordable

Environmental Engineering Third Award

Many in my grandfather's village are engaged in manual salt-farming, spending long hours by the sea under the blazing sun with little access to potable water. I researched suitable materials…

Design and Development of an Open-Source, Myo-Electric Robotic Upper Limb Prosthesis Using Additive Manufacturing

Biomedical Engineering Third Award

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

DETICKT IT: A Machine Learning-Based Application for Real-Time Tick Identification and Spatiotemporal Disease Risk Assessment

Systems Software Third Award

There is an alarming increase in the population of ticks and tick-borne diseases (TBDs), with 475,000 cases reported annually, some of which are fatal. Due to limited training, healthcare pr…

Development and Demonstration of a Low-Cost Strip-PET Scanner Prototype

Physics and Astronomy Third Award

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) allows physicians to visualize metabolism in various organs and is widely used in cancer and neurological imaging. The radioactive tracer, usually Fluorode…

Development of Multiparametric Microfluidic Chip Focusing on Water Quality Monitoring

Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award

This research addresses the widespread issue of drinking water contamination in resource-constrained areas. We propose using cost-effective multiparameter microfluidic chips to assess water…

Development of New Beam Configurations for OMEGA To Achieve Highly Uniform Indirect Drive Implosions With Cubic Symmetry

Physics and Astronomy Third Award

In light of the recent demonstration of breakeven on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) using indirect drive, interest in future indirect drive facilities has increased. A promising approa…

Discovery of Two Potentially Habitable Super-Earths! StealthPlanetFinder: Innovative & Computationally Efficient Algorithms to Detect Exoplanets Overcoming Low Signal-to-Noise Ratio

Physics and Astronomy Third Award

Since 2010, astronomers have utilized automated algorithms to detect numerous exoplanets that primarily exhibit Medium to High Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) transits. About 60% of potential ha…

Do Seaweed Extracts Mitigate Cancerous Lesions in Planaria?

Zoology Third Award