Chemistry
Third Award
Most individuals interact with water and paper on a day-to-day basis. So people often have a chance of spilling water on papers. The goal of this project is to design a cheap piece of paper…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Perovskite solar cells have been regarded as one of the most promising alternatives to conventional polycrystalline silicon solar cells due to their excellent photovoltaic properties, flexib…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
With a prevalence of 2-8% of the world population, the insidious disease Fibromyalgia(FM) posses a threat. Fibromyalgia is a chronic-pain disorder characterized by widespread musculoskeletal…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Objectives: According to the CDC, nearly 40 million U.S. adults smoke cigarettes, and 3.08 million middle/high school students use at least one tobacco product. Each year, nearly half a mill…
Translational Medical Science
Among various subtypes of breast cancer, triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is well-known as aggressive cancer with frequent anticancer drug-resistance and easy metastasis. Nevertheless, t…
Mathematical Sciences
First Award
Flip graphs are graphs of combinatorial objects, where 2 adjacent objects are related through a local change, or a flip. In my work, I studied friends-and-strangers (FS) graphs, an abstract…
Toxicology
Honorable_mention Award
After recently undergoing a chemotherapy treatment for cancer, our grandfather suffered from the unpleasant side effects of the treatment including fatigue and nausea. Since spices are known…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Standard approaches for cancer treatment involves surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. Although these approaches have resulted in prolongation of the survival window, it is also accompanied…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of death for American men. Sadly, Native Hawaiian men have the highest mortality rate from the disease. Mamaki, an endemic Hawaiian plant and a vi…
Translational Medical Science
With respect to evaluating biopsies for cancer diagnosis, a pressing yet often sidelined issue is that of anatomical pathology errors. Due to the image-based nature of biopsy examinations an…
Materials Science
Second Award
The industrial manufacture of concrete contributes to an estimated 6-10% of all global anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The main carbon-producing constituent in concrete is Ordi…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Second Award
Current drone swarm technology is oftentimes not fully autonomous nor connected by a reliable network, and therefore cannot efficiently map large natural disaster environments to identify se…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Along the pathogenesis of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (MTB), hypoxia-induced dormancy is a process involving the oxygen-depleted environment encountered inside the lung granuloma, where bacil…
Biochemistry
Fourth Award
Radiation-induced lung disease is a potential challenge for thoracic cancer survivors, who received radiotherapy. Hence, research to identify drugs that have selective effects on normal and…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
In this project, I explored the possibility of whether network analysis can be used to predict the popularity of TV series. Specifically, I investigated the potential relationship between IM…
Environmental Engineering
This research is about decomposing artificial materials with oyster mushrooms. The author chose this topic as there is a huge amount of plastic on earth that could be broken down. The subjec…
Environmental Engineering
Through increasing usage of toxic substances in anthropogenic activities, contamination in the natural environment has become a major problem. To combat this increasing threat, native Hawaii…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
First Award
Pickleball is a rapidly growing sport, but there have been many complaints about games being too loud. The average noise level from a pickleball game is 70 decibels when measured at 100 feet…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of human death, accounting for 17.8 million deaths in the past year. CVD causes dysfunction in blood proteins and cells. These dysfunctions…
Translational Medical Science
Anti-cancer peptides (ACPs), a class of small peptide molecules, have gained increasing attention in cancer research due to their ability to target and kill cancer cells selectively, sparing…
Anti-cancer peptides (ACPs), a class of small peptide molecules, have gained increasing attention in cancer research due to their ability to target and kill cancer cells selectively, sparing…
Mathematical Sciences
Second Award
Modern computer chess programs capable of easily beating any human player are causing a crisis in the world of competitive chess. These programs are simple to use and can be run on personal…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is a major clinical complication with an incidence of 50% among critical care patients and an observed in-hospital mortality of 62%. The early identification of pat…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The early division of nuclei in a Drosophila embryo is composed of eight nuclear divisions, or cycles, producing a total of 256 nuclei by the eighth cycle. The nuclei start in the center of…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
The research testifies whether superworms can biodegrade Polyurethane(PU) using the gut bacteria Pseudomonas. Also, the study examines how environmental factors of humidity of the surroundin…
Chemistry
The chemicals in man-made cleaning products and the plastics that encase them pollute and harm the environment. This investigation’s goal was to test the effectiveness of a natural plant-bas…
Embedded Systems
When natural disasters hit, they routinely destroy cellular and WiFi networks, eliminating these indispensable tools for emergency responders. Ideally, first responders could arrive, connect…
Translational Medical Science
Artificial intelligence is becoming a more widely utilized technology in the healthcare industry to improve predictability and consistency (Science Daily). However, this powerful technology…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
The purpose of this project was to develop an AI-based application for accurate diagnosis of skin diseases and diseases that manifest signs and symptoms on the skin, leveraging the power of…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Fourth Award
This project aims to address the issues associated with the existing aircraft fuel tank service kit, including its weight, susceptibility to corrosion, and heavy labor intensity. To improve…