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Biochemistry
Fourth Award
The algae have many abilities as a renewable lipid source of producing biofuel. Nevertheless, there is an inherent economic problem to make the algae use beneficial as the algae's fuel costs…
Chemistry
Delivering pharmaceuticals at the correct dosage to the correct site often proves an obstacle to a drug’s effectiveness. Cyclodextrin polymers can localize administration and lengthen the ti…
Chemistry
The title of this project is The Influence of Vegetated Coverage on Surface Runoff Losses of the Insecticide, Bifenthrin. Bifenthrin is a synthetic pyrethroid insecticide that is most common…
Chemistry
Objectives I wanted to study how vitamin C content is affected by cutting fruits well ahead of consumption. I grouped the test fruit into two categories: fruit that visibly oxidizes and frui…
Chemistry
Activated charcoal is a chemical that has increased in popularity. It is used in toothpaste to whiten teeth, in face masks to remove ‘toxins’ from the skin and is even taken as a food supple…
Chemistry
Objectives The objective was to determine what initial temperature for a hand warmer would create the most effective hand warmer in terms of warmth, crystallization rate, and voltage from it…
Chemistry
The project we developed starts from an element that has strongly characterized the five hundred and twenty years of the artwork: its fragility. The painting is one the most vulnerable among…
Chemistry
Objectives The purpose of this experiment was to determine which common oil had the largest effect on the elasticity medical grade latex. Methods I tested which type of oil decreased the ela…
Chemistry
Purpose: The leading causes of death globally stems from cardiovascular diseases such as stroke and heart failure, which both involve atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis refers to the buildup o…
Biochemistry
Mitochondrial dysfunction is a common characteristic of many diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, and cancer. Normal mitochondrial function is regulated by post-translational mod…
Chemistry
Objectives Methane in the Martian atmosphere was first detected by a team at NASA s Goddard Space Flight Center in 2003. In 2014, the Mars Express Orbiter reported that concentration levels…
Chemistry
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives The objective of this project is to measure the rate of corrosion in a wet/dry case in which the wet area of a given metal remains constant while the dry area exposed to air/oxyge…
Chemistry
Carcinogenic acrylamide naturally forms in common foods and drinks containing asparagines and reducing sugars when processed at temperatures above 120°C. Recent worldwide concern for consume…
Chemistry
The innovative proposal of this research focused on the evaluation of eggshell as an alternative source for obtaining calcium carbonate (CaCO3), in order to be used in the paper sheet manufa…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Nowadays, electrochemical CO2 reduction that involves the utilization of CO2 to convert into hydrocarbon products has been regarded as a promising way to address the increasing crisis of gre…
Chemistry
Our work is aimed at the synthesis of new lanthanide labels based on derivatives of DTPA (diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid) for NMR screening. The introduction of a spin label into a prote…
Chemistry
The purpose of this investigation was building a reactor that combined carbon dioxide and water molecules into artificially synthesized carbohydrates and identifying those carbohydrates that…
Chemistry
Convenient and inexpensive colorimetric chemical sensors (like pH paper), which change color when exposed to chemicals with different concentrations, are attractive due to low cost, ease of…
Chemistry
Objectives My objective is to build a model that can depict an image of the double diffusion occurring in the salt and sugar water solutions. The pictures from the model will then be observe…
Chemistry
Objectives Drugs are mostly unsafe when used in the body. As a drug travels around the body, it could damage parts of the body that do not need the drug. Our project aims to observe the effe…
Biochemistry
Advances in the mobility of bone marrow transplants have benefited many different types of people from all aspects of the socioeconomic ladder. This project demonstrates the process of cryop…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Non-biodegradable plastic is prevalent as it’s integrated into every aspect of our lives. The careless disposal of plastic is one of the biggest problems that humanity faces today. It has a…
Biochemistry
Industrial dyes are one of the most dangerous effluents that could contaminate the environment and causes a water pollution. Many industries produces dyes, such as textiles, leather, dyes, p…
Biochemistry
Acyclovir is an antiviral drug used in the treatment of Herpes Labialis, a difficult to treat viral infection affecting over 140 million people worldwide. Traditionally, administration of Ac…
Chemistry
Objectives In this experiment, increasing steep times were used to analyze the pH of black tea and green tea. A pH probe was used to record pH. Methods Beakers, flask, pipette, hot plate, bu…
Chemistry
Third Award
First time, soybean is investigated for supercapacitor application, because of its importance towards Arkansas’s economy. In this project, phosphorous and nitrogen co-doped carbon (PNDC) was…
Biochemistry
Metformin is the most widely prescribed drug worldwide for treating diabetes and it is becoming a promising drug for the treatment of a multitude of conditions including metabolic syndrome,…
Biochemistry
Third Award
Smoking, the leading cause of oral cancer in India, kills over 5 people every hour. As high mortality is due to late diagnosis, early detection is vital. Free radical induced lipid peroxidat…
Chemistry
The aim of this research is to study new approaches towards fluoroalkene-based peptidomimetics using (gem-fluorohalocyclopropyl)boronates. Fluoroalkenes have high antiviral, antitumor or ant…
Chemistry
This study aimed to examine the efficiency of using Nano-Kaolinite (Al2Si2O5 (OH)4) to purify electroplating wastewater from Nickel, and to examine wither or not it offered functional and af…