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Software for Customized Development of Partial Hand Prostheses in the 3D-Printed Prosthetics Community

Systems Software Third Award

This work developed an accessible software for the development of 3D-printed prostheses for people with partial hand loss. Partial hand loss is the most prevalent form of amputation among up…

Solution for Affordable Insulin: Efficient Production of Single Chain Insulin Through P. fluorescens

Microbiology Third Award

Diabetes poses a significant global health challenge, emphasizing the urgent need for insulin. Insulin costs a quite demanding as it is needed every year through one's lifetime. Meanwhile, s…

Solvent Effects on Fluorescence of Tryptophan

Chemistry

As the occurrence of cancer becomes more prevalent, scientists are eagerly encouraged to investigate means of combating the disease. After identifying the overabundance of L-type amino acid…

Solving High-Degree Equations Using Modern Technology

Mathematics

Math helps us in solving physical, biological, chemical and everyday problems which require the use of high degree polynomial equations. Unfortunately, solving these types of equations is no…

Solving Second-Order Cone Programs in Matrix Multiplication Time

Systems Software First Award

A fundamental class of problems in mathematical optimization is second-order cone programming (SOCP), which provides a generalized framework to solve problems in a wide range of fields. Whil…

Sorry, I Didn't See You: Testing the Effects of Photosensitive Medications on Crystallin Alpha to Study the Development of Cataracts

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Cataracts, the decomposition of crystallins found in the lens of the eye, are increasingly common among today's population of aging and diabetic patients. Photosensitive medications can incr…

Southwest Development of Propellers

In 2017 MIT introduced a patent for a revolutionary type of propeller. Later, in the beginning of 2023, champions for the new technology arose praising the benefits of reduced drag and incre…

Spatial Analysis of Chronic Wasting Disease in Northeastern Colorado Deer Populations

Animal Sciences

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a highly contagious, fatal prion disease found in cervids, which has resulted in their decline; specifically, whitetail deer and mule deer. Data (sex, specie…

Spectroscopic and Colorimetric Analysis of Textiles Dyed With Local Invasive Plant Species and Waste-Derived Mordants

Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award

Synthetic dyes used by the fashion industry pollute aquatic ecosystems and contribute to the bioaccumulation of toxic compounds in organisms. Natural dyes are alternatives to synthetics whos…

sPET: Miniature Enzyme From Metagenomic Mining for the Hydrolysis of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET)

Environmental Engineering Fourth Award

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plays a pivotal role in modern packaging and textile industries, contributing to over 350 million tons of global production annually. Despite its widespread…

Spidersonde: A Novel Approach to Tropical Cyclone Reconnaissance via Biomimicry of Spiders’ Ballooning

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics

Spidersonde is a revolutionary ground launch sonde system that implements spider’s ballooning mechanics to collect meteorological in-situ data critical in accurately forecasting Tropical Cyc…

SPII Guard: Securing Personal Identifiable Information in Receipts Using Regular Expressions and Named Entity Recognition

Systems Software

With the need for collecting and analyzing large-scale data dramatically increasing in the big data era, researchers and companies have begun to rely on crowdsourcing platform workers to ann…

SplattingTAPIR: Utilizing TAPIR and 3D Gaussian Splatting for Efficient Robust Reconstruction

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

The recent rise of foundation models has been shown to have immense power in pattern recognition and performing "zero-shot" predictions. A key field that could greatly benefit from leveragin…

Sponge Studies: Assessing the Effects of Environmental Impacts on Marine Sponge Detritus Production, and Use as a Natural Deep Sea eDNA Sampler

Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award

Coral reefs, containing over 25% of marine species, are vital ecosystems that support a diverse array of life and provide crucial resources for sustenance, supplying food for over 1 billion…

Sponge Studies: Assessing the Effects of Environmental Impacts on Mycale grandis Detritus Production, and Use as a Natural eDNA Sampler

Coral reefs, containing over 25% of marine species, are vital ecosystems that support a diverse array of life and provide crucial resources for sustenance, supplying food for over 1 billion…

State Space Models Are All You Need

Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award

Conventional architectures such as the Transformer struggle to scale to very long sequences of over 10 000 steps. Promisingly, recent advances in sequence models based on the Structured Stat…

Statistical Analysis and Bayesian Estimation of Distributions of Millisecond Pulsar Parameters for Optimizing Pulsar Searches

Physics and Astronomy

Pulsars are highly magnetized, rotating neutron stars that serve as the most precise clocks in the universe. Millisecond pulsars (MSPs), which have a spin period of less than 10 ms, are espe…

STEPs Ahead: Self-Powered Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Dynamic Multidirectional Pressure Sensing

Biomedical Engineering Third Award

Advancements in human machine interface and human motion monitoring require effective real-time pressure sensing to provide enhance interactive capabilities and enable smart feedback systems…

Sticking To It: Using Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes as Possible Adsorbents for Sulfamethoxazole

Sulfamethoxazole is a veterinary pharmaceutical that has been implemented into animal feed to improve chick growth, animal health, and meat production. However, sulfamethoxazole can’t be ful…

Sticky Styrofoam

Environmental Engineering

Polystyrene, commonly known as Styrofoam, is a major environmental concern due to its non-degradability and low recyclability. This experiment explored the potential of using D-limonene, a t…

STING-rich Ciliated Cells Protect the Fallopian Tube From Early Transformation in the Development of Ovarian Cancer

Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award

High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) remains the fifth leading cause of cancer death among women. It has recently been demonstrated that stimulator-of-interferon genes (STING) is highly…

Strengthening Cardiomyocytes: Proliferation Independent Effects of Mechano-Transducer YAP1

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Population aging increases the occurrence of chronic heart disease characterized by decrease of cardiomyocyte number and their contractility. The absence of natural heart self-repair mechani…

Strengthening Defenses: Analyzing the Immunomodulatory Potential of Beta-Glucan of Ordinary Mushrooms in Coffee

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Our body has many ways to defend itself against foreign pathogens with the first defense being our innate immune system. Among the many different substances that can improve our immune syste…

Strengthening Natural Dyeing: A Comparative Study of Mordants for Sustainable Textile Coloration

Earth and Environmental Sciences

The fashion industry heavily relies on synthetic dyes, causing 20% of industrial water pollution and health risks due to toxic chemicals like lead and arsenic. Most factories, mainly in deve…

Structural and Evolutionary Analysis in silico of the Leigh Syndrome-Associated Protein SURF1

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Leigh Syndrome is a disorder that typically appears during childhood or before birth and it is caused by mutations in the mitochondrial protein SURF1. Although more than 80 mutations have be…

Structure Predictor: A Machine Learning Algorithm to Reliably Fit Thin Film Neutron Reflectivity Curves

Neutron reflectometry is a technique for studying the structure of thin films. Thin films are layers of materials that simulate systems with only the processes a scientist is interested in.…

Study Smarter, Not Harder: The Neuropsychology Behind Studying Techniques in Correlation to Academic Performance of Adolescents

Behavioral and Social Sciences

High school students set aside a lot of time to study, but they don't have a structured method of studying. Students often cram for exams the night before, or even minutes before taking an e…

Sub-Lethal Salt Level Impacts on the Upper Thermal Limit of Copepods

Earth and Environmental Sciences

The temperature and salt concentration of freshwater bodies around the world are increasing due to environmental disruption. As a result, copepods, a keystone species, are being impacted, as…

Submersible Aerial Vehicle Design Study

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Third Award

There have been many attempts at creating a submersible aerial vehicle, but these attempts have failed for several reasons. Most notably, these attempts did not perform sufficiently either a…

SupportLess: Software Searching for Optimal Support Orientation in 3D Printing

Systems Software

The purpose of this project was to develop software that reduces production costs and improves efficiency by optimizing support for 3D printing. Support referred to a structure to prevent th…