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Giving Robot Hands a Feeling

Embedded Systems

Background: Grasping is a critical function for humanoid robots to automate mechanical labor. Current robotic grasping is limited by the inability to precisely set grasping conditions before…

Glasses for the Hearing Impaired

Embedded Systems

This study addressed the engineering challenge: can a low cost, microcontroller based device reliably detect and visually represent alerts in real time for individuals with hearing impairmen…

Global Microplastic Pollution-Year 5: A Novel Multi-Organism & Computational Approach for Investigating Microplastics' Size and Concentration-Dependent Effects for Translational Human Biomarker Discovery; and Deployment of Plant-Based, Economical, and Scalable Microplastic Remediation Systems

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Global Microplastic Pollution, an “Environmental Ticking Time Bomb”, is a significant and ongoing threat to the environment, world's water-quality, and human-health. Humans now ingest >5 gra…

Glowing Warnings: Using Aliivibrio fischeri for Toxin Detection

Microbiology

Aliivibrio fischeri is a single-celled, gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that lives within the ocean. When in healthy waters, its cell membrane quorum senses with other bacterium near it…

CYSF · 2025

Glow with the Flow: Using a Convolution Neural Network to assess Photoplethysmography Imaging

Using a Convolution Neural Network to test Photoplethysmography imaging for Atrial Fibrillation, Cardiovascular Disease, and Anxiety/Stress.

Glucagon-Like Peptide-1(GLP-1) Receptor Agonists Effects in Cell Culture Models of Type 1 Diabetes

Biomedical and Health Sciences

The use of GLP-1 agonists, including Ozempic and Exenatide, has increased by almost 40-fold between 2017 and 2021. These drugs are widely used to regulate glucose metabolism in type 2 diabet…

CYSF · 2025

GLUTEN WOES

My project involved expanding my knowledge on celiac disease, its symptoms, complications and its relationship with gluten. I also reviewed studies that examined the effect of differing amou…

CYSF · 2025

Grades in Crisis

High School averages have been dropping constantly throughout the years, especially now after the pandemic. Students now are feeling more burnt out and under pressure than ever before. This…

Graphene-Based Solar Fuel Generator: Utilizing Sunlight and a Graphene-Based Solar Panel to Air Captured Convert Carbon Dioxide and Water Into Renewable Hydrocarbon Fuels Through a Catalytic Process

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

Graphene Solar Fuel Generator (GSFG) is a new generation green fuel production technology based on advanced graphene-based solar technology to generate methane (CH4) from carbon dioxide (CO2…

CYSF · 2025

Gravitational forces and how they can effect space & time

I will discuss how gravity and astrophysics are all around the universe, even if people don't quite realize it yet. My main focuses for this project include: Mass and gravity, Newton's laws,…

Great Minds Think Alike, Great Models Think All at Once: MAESTRO, A Unified Framework for Video-Audio Understanding & Reasoning

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

Multimodal contents' increasing complexity poses significant challenges for Vision-Language Models (VLMs), particularly in hateful video detection. Hateful videos are inherently multimodal a…

Great Plains Identification of Neurogenesis-Associated Genes and Proteins Altered by Early-Life Stress and Exercise

Epigenetics is the study of how environmental stimuli affect gene expression without altering the DNA sequence. DNA methylation is an epigenetic mechanism in which a 5-methylcytosine group b…

CYSF · 2025

Greenhouse electricity

I will make a renewable energy source for greenhouse farmers that will attach on to the greenhouses because it will reduce energy costs for farmers and make a clean type of energy for them.

CYSF · 2025

Green Stone: Reinventing the Building Blocks of Our Future

I created a more environmentally conscious alternative to current concrete products that still meets safety and build needs of modern day construction.

Green Tea Intake and Cognitive Decline in the Elderly: A Dose-Response and Cross-Cultural Meta-Analysis

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Cognitive decline poses a significant public health challenge among aging populations. Green tea contains epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), a catechin widely hypothesized to protect against n…

CYSF · 2025

Growing plants in Mars

I will be using 2 substitutes and compare them to a growing plant using soil.

Gut Instinct: An AI-Driven Approach to Inflammatory Bowel Disease Prediction Using Microbial and Metabolite Data

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Today, up to 3.6 million Americans suffer from Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) —a group of debilitating conditions, including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, that cause chronic infl…

CYSF · 2025

Gut Microbiome

We conducted a survey on the teenage gut Microbiome and how they are not consuming enough probiotic and prebiotic

Gyroscopic Rocket Stabilization via Thrust Vectored Control

Embedded Systems

This project aimed to address problems inherent in fin-controlled rocketry systems. Common problems include cost, complexity, and size, and this project solved them by creating a simple, low…

CYSF · 2025

Hacking Evolution: Neutralizing Antibiotic Resistance with CRISPR

My project is about using CRISPR-based bio circuits to stop antibiotic resistance from happening. Essentially by combining CRISPR and bio circuits I hope to contribute a potential solution f…

Halotolerant Bacteria Oc2 Enhance Plant Salt Tolerance

Plant Sciences

In this study, a salt-tolerant bacterium, Oceanobacillus aidingensis, referred as Oc2, was isolated from wetlands in Taiwan. In the absence of plant, Oc2 does not reduce soil salinity; howev…

HandNBrain: A Hand Gesture Recognition Based Game Design for Elder's Cognitive Improvement

Systems Software

Cognitive decline and fine motor skill deterioration are common in the aging process, contributing to diminished quality of life and increased dementia risk. This study introduces HandNBrain…

HandTalk: A Two-Way Translation System for American Sign Language

Technology Enhances the Arts

Nearly 5% of the global population, or 430M people, require hearing loss rehabilitation, while in the U.S., about 11M people experience serious hearing difficulties. Many deaf individuals co…

HarmonyHeal A-VR: Enhancing Cognitive Rehabilitation in Alzheimer's Patients Using VR/AR Technologies

Translational Medical Science

One in 14 people is affected by Alzheimer's Disease (AD), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that impairs cognitive function and daily activities, resulting in a declined quality of pa…

Harmony Plus: A User-Adaptive System for Neurocognitive Rehabilitation With Genetic Personalization and Real-Time Cognitive Load Monitoring in Bipolar Disorder

Behavioral and Social Sciences

Bipolar disorder (BD) complications extend beyond mood swings, with up to 60% of patients experiencing cognitive deficits even during euthymia. Key areas affected include attention, executiv…

Harnessing Coral Bacteria as Probiotics to Combat Vibrio cholerae Water Contamination

Microbiology

The World Health Organization reports Vibrio cholerae serogroup O139 as a high-priority pathogen that has the potential to precipitate the 8th cholera pandemic. This project explores the use…

CYSF · 2025

"Harnessing GLP-1: Studying the Biochemistry of Ozempic and Diabetes."

In this project, I will be deeply analyzing the well-known drug called Ozempic, and its positive, and even negative side effects on the human body.

Harnessing Ocean Waves: A Sustainable Approach to Desalination

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

Despite 70% of our planet being covered by water, only 3% of that is fresh water, with the vast majority being saline. World WildLife predicts that two-thirds of the world’s population may f…

Harnessing Saccharomyces cerevisiae to Assess a Novel Genetic Circuit Targeting p53 & Mdm2 for Cancer Therapy

Biomedical Engineering

The tumor suppressor protein p53, is mutated in 50% of human cancers. DNA damage activates kinases which stabilize p53 through phosphorylation and paradoxically can promote cancer cell survi…

Harnessing the Mechanistic Similarities Between Natural Killer (NK) Cells and CAR T-cells to Reveal Apolipoprotein B Receptor's Hidden Role of Low-Density Lipoprotein (LDL) Uptake on NK Cell Cytotoxicity and Functionality

Cellular and Molecular Biology

Although CAR T-cell therapy has significantly improved treatment outcomes for hematologic B-cell malignancies, challenges such as relapse and mortality rates (35-50% within 6-12 months post-…