Animal Sciences
Natural fertilizers, such as chicken manure, are very important for good crop yield. Current research uses non laying type birds at a fixed time point in their lifespan to determine nitrogen…
Mammalian Biology
Third Award
Objectives During the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci studied "de Architectura," by Vitruvius, seeking out ways to perfect his art, at which time he created one of his most famous drawings, T…
Zoology
Objectives Through the observation and repeated sampling of kelp forest ecosystems and organism behaviors, scientists are able to piece together a more complete picture of how these ecosyste…
Mammalian Biology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives Biomarkers are extremely important in medical diagnostics, as they can help monitor a patient's medical status. Heart disease and sepsis, for example, can be identified by a spike…
Zoology
Second Award
Objectives The objective of my study is to examine if photobiomodulation (PBM) treatment can result in improved stress response and peripheral nerve regeneration, particularly of A delta and…
Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
I examined if photobiomodulation (PBM) treatment can result in improved stress response and peripheral nerve regeneration, particularly of A delta and C nerve fibers, after caudal fin injury…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives The objective of this study is to determine whether there is a correlation between the strength of gravity's pull and the energy that an organism requires to perform a task. Metho…
Animal Sciences
A weekly count of the number of big game animals observed at a particular location in game unit 2B in Northern New Mexico was carried out in the months from September through December of 201…
Animal Sciences (inferred)
Rockfish support one of the largest fisheries in California. Due to overharvesting, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife began closing the fishery from January to February in 2002…
Mammalian Biology
Fourth Award
Objectives The purpose of this experiment is to measure the short-term effects of virtual reality on the body, specifically our biology related to heart rate and blood pressure. The goal is…
Animal Sciences
The nervous system is one of the most complicated systems, not only structurally, but functionally in regulating behavioral and physiological processes. Because of its structural complexity…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives In order for the seal population to endure global warming, these animals are likely to need to adapt to warmer water temperatures. As the water temperatures increase, these seals…
Zoology
Objectives The objective of this study is to determine how fast mosquito pupae will emerge as adult mosquitoes in different water temperatures. Methods Three mosquito breeding jars where fil…
Zoology
Objectives The purpose of this project is to investigate whether or not different audio frequencies will repel Pogonomyrmex barbatus (also known as Red Carpenter ants). This is a second year…
Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
Honey is a natural sweetener used for health and medicinal purposes, but it is considered one of the most adulterated food products in the world. Recent studies have yielded conflicting resu…
Animal Sciences
Canine Gaucher’s disease is an inherited Lysosomal Storage Disorder characterized by a near complete deficiency in the catabolic activity of the enzyme glucocerebrosidase. As a result, the m…
Animal Sciences
Honey bees are extremely important, performing about 80 percent of all pollination worldwide. Their population has been rapidly declining at an alarming rate. Multiple studies have shown lac…
Animal Sciences
This project was conducted to determine the effects of weaning methods on the weight gain, growth rate, feed intake, and feed efficiency of beef calves. Three different weaning methods were…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals Respiratory illnesses and other such medical complications in humans account to a loss of $58 billion annually, and nearly 7% of all deaths are accounted to respiratory illn…
Animal Sciences
Planarians are a form of flathead worm from the Tubellaria class. Their regenerative properties are renowned. The properties of the frequency of 528Hz are being introduced into the medical f…
Animal Sciences
Honeybee populations in the U.S. are declining at an unsustainable rate. For Apis mellifera, aka the domestic honeybee used on farms, the primary culprit is the varroa mite. This is not the…
Animal Sciences
First Award
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are important components of the peripheral and central nervous systems. Nematostella vectensis, the starlet sea anemone, is an important model syst…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine the tensile strength and elastic modulus of mammalian ventricles in order to compare these values between hearts of different…
Animal Sciences (inferred)
One of the most well recognized methods of conditioning in planarian flatworms is light-shock therapy, a form of Pavlovian conditioning where the worm is trained to exhibit a negative respon…
Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
A novel muscle myopathy in chickens, termed woody breast (WB), is causing meat quality issues leading to consumer complaints and economic losses to the global poultry industry. Detection and…
Animal Sciences
The purpose of this project is to determine if the strength of the egg, thickness of shell, and amount of protein in the egg is directly related to the month of the year. Also, to determine…
Animal Sciences
Second Award
The loss of biodiversity is a serious environmental problem, and factors such as global warming and deforestation due to human activities are considered to be primarily responsible for the m…
Animal Sciences
The neonicotinoids pesticides is the best according to its efficiency in the elimination of pests. These pesticides cause the reduction of up to 40% of the sperm production of the Apis melli…
Animal Sciences
Due to much controversy in the past, there is currently much uncertainty as to whether or not current herbicides are safe. The purpose of this project is to study the effects of herbicides a…
Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
Local anesthetics are widely used in a variety of medical procedures. Although they are safe and efficient in managing pain, complications can arise in what is known as local anesthetic syst…