Mathematical Sciences
Third Award
This project is inspired from a personal experience of a delayed diagnosis and treatment of pneumonia, which partially resulted from an inconsistency in auscultation interpretation. This pro…
Computational Systems & Analysis
Third Award
Although digital calendars are prevalent, they often face limitations such as a rigid adherence to specific dates and inflexibility. Consequently, users may have to limit the variety and num…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
Myocarditis is a disease in which there is inflammation located within the muscle tissue of the heart, or myocardium. It is characterized by infiltration of mononuclear inflammatory cells in…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Third Award
Airborne Wind Energy systems (AWEs) are an innovative variant of wind energy technology that harness the power of high-altitude winds. However, conventional AWEs face limitations due to teth…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Third Award
Golf is gaining popularity during and post COVID, and golf practice ranges are often packed at peak hours. Making golf practice at home more effective and efficient will be beneficial to ten…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Every year in the US, millions of roadkill accidents occur making wildlife vehicle collisions (WVCs) a significant danger to both animals and humans. In addition, road networks become abioti…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
Worldwide 1 in 8 people live with a mental illness (WHO, 2022). Music releases neurotransmitters, including dopamine, but without the side effects of medications (Schriewer, Bulaj, 2016). Th…
Toxicology
Third Award
Colon cancer is the third leading cause of cancer related deaths with over 940,000 deaths reported worldwide in 2020. The overexpression of certain membrane bound proteins, such as Sodium-de…
Chemistry
Third Award
Water biopollutants such as insects, parasites, and microbes have wreaked havoc in the global health and development. They have grown resistant to traditional disinfectants such as chlorine…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
The utilization of pesticides to protect agricultural productions and insect infestations for health and hygienic purposes has raised great concerns in the literature associated with soil, w…
Chemistry
Third Award
Nanoparticles are of significance because of their small size and unique characteristics. Few studies have been conducted on the synthesis of manganese nanoparticles. This project was among…
Chemistry
Third Award
Plastic accumulation is an increasing threat to the natural environment, therefore it is imperative that degradable polymers are developed as an alternative to standard petroleum-based plast…
Embedded Systems
Third Award
The utility of inexpensive radio-controlled drones has never been clearer than during the present conflict in Ukraine. Remote-controlled aircraft—quadcopters, small planes, and even balloons…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
Aortic aneurysms have increased in the past two decades and affect about 2.9 million people. Although surgical treatments have become increasingly sophisticated, there is a lack of efficient…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Third Award
Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are two types of hematologic malignancies with especially poor prognoses and limited therapeutic options. Notably, mutations i…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Disabled people experience difficulties in many areas of daily life. The main reason for these difficulties is the great gap in the research about the solutions to the daily life problems of…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Third Award
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by an obsessive adherence to repetitive motion, language, and behavior. Neuroligin, a trans-synaptic adhesion mo…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Water pollution is an issue that affects living organisms worldwide. As human activity continues to increase pollution in our oceans, the livelihood of all marine creatures is affected, from…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
Breast cancer ranks first among the most common types of cancer globally, regionally and locally, as early detection of breast cancer increases the cure and survival rate, increases treatmen…
Animal Sciences
Third Award
As of 2021, 20.7% of Americans have reported consuming nicotine, which is known to severely decrease the viability of human sperm, accelerate the loss of eggs, and alter the respiratory syst…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Third Award
Recent changes in climate, increased energy production, overpopulation, and inadequate water use and infrastructure led to freshwater shortage globally. There is an urgent need to develop ne…
Animal Sciences
Third Award
Honeybees serve as the world’s most crucial pollinators and have a monumental impact on the agricultural industry of up to $577 billion. However, their population is declining due to various…
Translational Medical Science
Third Award
Barrett’s esophagus is a precancerous condition in which the esophageal lining becomes inflamed after repeated exposure to acid reflux. Barrett’s esophagus can develop into esophageal cancer…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Third Award
The NMDA receptor (NMDAR) plays an integral role in neuronal communication and neurodevelopment, and its malfunction has been linked to multiple neurodevelopmental diseases (NDDs) including…
Plant Sciences
Third Award
Iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) are extensively used in many applications. They spread into nature, contaminating soil and water and raising concerns about plant/human health. However, the…
Plant Biology
Third Award
The Artemis mission has sparked curiosity about a self-sustaining lunar colony. This experiment’s purpose was to emulate earth soil fertility in a lunar simulant using two essential nutrient…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Third Award
Axial compressors, the first stage of gas turbine engines, compress air by accelerating it through many stages of rotors and stators. Variable pitch stator vanes are a technology that preven…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
As humans gain an increasing reliance on environmentally harmful devices such as cars and factories, organisms in the ocean experience life-altering adversity. To decrease the significance o…
Materials Science
Third Award
Our research aims to create an eco- and cost-friendly alternative to cow leather and polyurethane leather, the most common synthetic leather. We chose this research as we are passionate abou…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
Litsea cubeba (Lauraceae) is a woody plant which is widely distributed in Vietnam. Its fruit essential oil (FEO) showed a potent effect on the central nervous system (CNS). However, the neur…