Biomedical and Health Sciences
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a musculoskeletal disease often caused by overuse or injury but recent literature has suspected G protein coupled receptor (GPCR) signaling of cell surface receptors a…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
First Award
Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), an aging related detriment, is the most common cause of mortality in the world. In addition, chemotherapy jeopardizes cardiovascular integrity and was shown to…
Energy: Chemical
Our project tested the theory that cattail roots could produce a sufficient amount of ethanol to be considered a viable supplement in the production of ethanol used as a clean burning fuel a…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
Every year many people die from blood loss. There are some modern medical devices (coagulators) allowing to prevent extra bleeding. However, each of them has disadvantages. My goal is to exp…
Materials Science
Emerging therapeutic techniques employ the use of drug-loaded gels, providing targeted treatment critical to prevent indiscriminate damage by drugs. It is essential to measure drug release r…
Energy: Physical
First Award
In this integrative research, two tunable plasmonic nanostructures were used to significantly increase the short circuit current output (Jsc), total current produced (A), maximum optical gen…
Translational Medical Science
The leaves of Clinacanthus nutans (Sabah Snake Grass) have long been used traditionally in Asia for treatment of skin rashes and snake bites. This project investigates the effect of Clinacan…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Multicopters have a wide range of applications from search and rescue to package delivery and medical support. Although growing in popularity, they are not used yet on an industrial scale fo…
Biomedical Engineering
According to 2011 data, 48.4% of individuals with disabilities in Palestine suffer from mobility disabilities; 49.5% in the West Bank compared with 47.2% in the Gaza Strip. Followed by learn…
Embedded Systems
If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving? Nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year, on average 3,287 deaths a day[1]. The critical reas…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Wildfires have become increasingly frequent and severe due to global climatic change, demanding improved methodologies for wildfire modeling. Traditionally, wildfires are assessed through po…
Animal Sciences
Ranchers want to know what their cows are doing in the day. To know what their cows do, they could put GPS collars on the cows and analyze the data. One of the major reasons they may want to…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
During a year plants provide large amounts of matter full of cellulose. The biggest part of matter can be found in the crops, leaves and grass. People do not use this matter enough and even…
Physics and Astronomy
Submersion causes the highest mortality rate of all vehicular accidents. These might be caused by crashing into a water body or by road flooding. Cars normally sink very fast, giving occupan…
Engineering Mechanics
In my project, I looked into different ways of recycling in Hawaii. Due to the fact that Hawaii has very limited landfill space, any form of recycling would have a large impact on the local…
Systems Software
The incidence of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, continues to rise due to ignorance regarding personal risk of melanoma development and regarding skin protection. I created a mo…
Animal Sciences
Second Award
Over 1/3 of the world's crops are pollinated by honey bees. Without them, many wildflowers and trees won't get the pollination they need, and agricultural expenses will skyrocket. Over the p…
Translational Medical Science
In the United States, 23,830 new primary malignant tumors of the brain and central nervous system (CNS) are expected to be diagnosed in 2018, according to the Central Brain Tumor Registry of…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
Yeast species in floral nectar, especially Saccharomyces cerevisiae, show high alcohol fermentation properties, with nectar-dwelling non-Saccharomyces yeast Metschnikowia pulcherrima additio…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This takes place in the Samoan Islands, located in the South Pacific Ocean.I have been working on finding this underwater vent for 8 months, and it has involved so much of my time and resour…
Physics and Astronomy
Craters are categorized as primary or secondary. Primary craters are created by the initial impact of interplanetary debris and secondary craters are created by the ejecta from that primary…
Systems Software
First Award
Adverse weather such as fog, rain, snow, and severe haze can greatly decrease visibility, making it difficult for drivers to perceive traffic information. Such reduced visibility increases t…
Animal Sciences
Both honey bees and bumble bees are frequently used as pollinators for crops around the world. Bumble bees are active at lower temperatures and have smaller hives, increasing their use over…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Purpose: Studying the evolution of simple creatures is key in order to unlock new knowledge. This could help us create genetic algorithms that allow robots to learn new techniques on the fly…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
I created the "Family Relationship Questionnaire"(FRQ) to categorize participants as sex perspective (SP) "rigid" or SP "flexible". Rigid participants were those who could not see themselves…
Mathematics
The machine will help learners with hearing impairment to read cosines,sines and tangents of an angle at the same time to improve mathematical performance in special schools(schools for the…
Microbiology
Second Award
Marine macroalgae, due to exposure to adverse abiotic conditions, have developed defense mechanisms such as the ability to produce biologically active substances that, when assimilated by ce…
Animal Sciences
Understanding vocal mothering in sheep is vital to increase lamb survival rates and farm efficiency. Ewes have been observed to vocalize differently before and after giving birth. It is conj…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) have a huge potential use in regenerative medicine. However, the mutant frequency of hiPSC reaches the level of differentiated cells rather than…
Physics and Astronomy
Science has already proven that Noise (i.e. Sound Pollution) in public spaces is not limited to the sound originating from other space users but also from administrative audio warnings & not…