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New Record for the Most Effective Microalgae on the Removal of Phosphorus and Nitrogen for Wastewater Treatment

All around the world wastewater is treated using industrial methods that are based on chemical additives. These approaches show high efficiency in treating wastewater, but are harmful to the…

Next Generation Fatty Acid Binding Protein Inhibitors: Computer-Aided Drug Design and Synthesis of Novel Truxillic Acid Diesters for Chronic Pain Inhibition

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award

Demand for non-addictive, tissue-specific pain relief has been growing ever since the IOM confirmed that pain afflicts more Americans than cancer, heart disease, and diabetes combined. In ye…

Next Generation Surgical Tool using Three-Dimensional (3-D) Printing for Cerebral Aneurysm Treatment

This modeling project was based on the use of three dimensional (3-D) printing for the development of a surgical tool to help with the treatment of cerebral aneurysms. Current treatment meth…

Nickel Oxy-hydroxide Thin Films as Efficient Electrocatalysts for Dye Wastewater Treatment

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award

Carcinogenic and mutagenic dyes in industrial wastewater have significant adverse effects on aquatic flora and fauna. Current methods of physicochemical and biological treatments to eliminat…

NOGOS: A Novel Nano-Oligosaccharide Doped Graphene Sand Composite Water Filter for Developing Countries

Fourth Award

A novel nano-oligosaccharide doped graphene sand composite filter (NOGOS) was created to serve as a simple, economical, and effective water filter in developing countries, where fresh water…

No More Drowning! Preventing Drowning through a Robot Airplane

The number of people drowning to death is so high that we need to put an end to this problem. That’s why I thought of sending these people a robot airplane that carries lifelines to prevent…

No Strings Attached: An Investigation into Wireless Charging

Wireless charging is convenient, yet not the most effective way of charging devices. Using coils of enamel wire this experiment aimed to improve the general coil to coil efficiency by findin…

Novel Approach to Antibiotics and Antifungals: Testing the Effectiveness of Azadirachta indica Extracts

Fourth Award

Preliminary research has shown that certain natural substances can be used without the fear of a new resistant strain developing. Thus, this project aims to determine the effectiveness of na…

Novel Brine Water-Graphene Based Energy Generation: Engineering the Endless Cycle

Due to the current drought in California, many new desalination plants are being constructed, which fail in that they release water and air pollution, while providing no solution as to where…

Novel Cancer and Viral Infection Treatment via Antisense RNA-Guided Selective Protein Expression

Translational Medical Science Third Award

This research created a novel system capable of targeting cells based only on their mRNA sequences that would, upon recognition of a predetermined, target, mRNA sequence in a particular cell…

Novel Glycerol-Free Biodiesel Production using Enzyme Catalysis

Biodiesel production from vegetable oil and ethanol (EtOH) has become a demonstrated alternative energy source. Current processes convert triglycerides to biodiesel, from which 90 million po…

Novel Inhibitors of Glucose Transporter 1 (GLUT1) for Cancer

Translational Medical Science Second Award

The goal of the project was to identify effective targeted drugs for inhibiting Protein Glucose Transporter 1 (GLUT1). Findings would be a big step towards curing cancer. GLUT1 transports gl…

Novel Machine Learning Algorithms for Early Diagnosis of Melanoma

Third Award

Melanoma, the most lethal and common form of skin cancer, is a type of cancer that develops from the pigment-containing cells known as melanocytes. It has an estimated mortality rate of 63%…

Novel Mosquito Control: A Chemical-free, Low-Cost Approach for Aedes aegypti Reduction via Specific Range Frequency Sweep

Systems Software

Mosquito control is crucial to fighting diseases, such as zika, malaria, and dengue. Extensive research has been done on chemical-free control, such as the use of sound as a means of mosquit…

Novel Nanomedicine Therapy for Multidrug Resistant Cancer

Multidrug-resistant (MDR) cancer decreases the effectiveness of chemotherapy. One primary cause is the overexpression of P-glycoprotein efflux pump (P-gp). Mitotane (MIT) is a very potent P-…

Novel Nature Derived Green Materials for Laser Safety Glasses in Optoelectronics

Since the discovery of laser by Maiman in 1960, it has been widely used in many fields, like, medicine, laboratory and military. While causing a great progress for the human society, it also…

Novel Selection of Enzymes Loaded in Mesoporous Nanoparticle Carrier Engineered to Selectively Target Cancer Cells Using Aptamer

Second Award

Cancer therapies have limitations of selectively delivering cancer-killing agents to cancer cells. After studying apoptosis reactions, I unearthed novel enzymes, Caspase-9 and Cytochrome-C,…

Novel Synthesis of Water-Soluble Paramagnetic Polymer Nanoparticles (Metal Free) for Selective Drug Delivery and Cancer Therapy Applications

Iron oxide based superparamagnetic nanoparticles have the potential for revolutionary breakthroughs in applications such as selective drug delivery or cancer therapy because of the guidance…

Novel TolC Inhibitors: Computer-Aided Drug Discovery for MDR-Conferring Efflux Pumps

Third Award

The emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria poses a grave threat to global health. This research aimed to inhibit one of the main cellular mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), ce…

Novel Utilizations of Globally Invasive Algal Species: Environmental and Economical Implementations of Fermented Macroalgae

Second Award

Invasive macroalgae impacts coasts, ecosystems, and communities on a global scale, but utilizing this wasteful substance can fulfill future demands and need for sustainable resources. The gr…

Now You See It, Now You Don't

Wind turbines are currently being used as environmentally friendly source of energy and research continues as to how to make the wind turbines more efficient. However there has been an incre…

Nuclear Radiation Auto-Detector

Waste Accumulation is a vast problem in our modern world, throwing away everything, from food waste to electronic waste, currently, some of this waste is Radioactive, from europium in CRT mo…

Numerical and Analytical Model Development for Tidal Barrage Energy Output

Fourth Award

The main purpose of this project is to further improve the models available for calculating the energy output of tidal barrages. This project will build on the previous year's project, which…

Nutrient Starvation-Induced Cancer Cell Death in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells

Translational Medical Science Fourth Award

Cancer cells metabolize some basic nutrients, such as glucose, differently than normal cells do. Recently, investigation on cancer metabolism has increased due to the discovery of new metabo…

Nutritional Balance on SNAP Allotment, a Second Year Study

Biomedical Engineering

The purpose of my project was to determine if I could create a nutritionally balanced meal in Midland, Texas using the allotments provided by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. I…

Observations of Drug Synergy Mechanisms to Target Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in Viruses

An intrinsically disordered protein (IDP) is a protein that lacks a stable tertiary structure. A key aspect of such a protein is that it goes against the traditional dogma that protein struc…

Obstacle Detecting Tactile Device for Assisting Spatial Orientation of the Visually Impaired and Blind People

The goal of the project is to create an intellectual, socially oriented device, which can aid blind people to move avoiding obstacles. The newness of the device is a usage of casual hat equi…

Oceaneering Pile Driving Infrastructure Technology: Mitigating Anthropogenic Underwater Noise Impacts on Coastal Marine Life

After observing the devastating effect of natural disasters, such as super storms, flooding, and rising sea levels; an engineered pile driving design was created as a noise control acoustic…

Ointment Made from Traditional Herbs Extract for Topical Treatment of Infection in Ornamental Fish

Aquatic fungi especially Saprolegnia sp. often cause infection in ornamental fish. Treating the infection is normally done by dissolving antifungal agent in the water, affecting the whole fi…

One Step Closer to Curing Tuberculosis: Testing the Stability of ORBIT in Mycobacterium smegmatis

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that kills 4,000 people a day worldwide. The bacteria that causes Tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, can easily mutate and develop drug resistanc…