Glioblastoma Multiforme is a deadly brain tumor, with a median patient survival time of 18-24 months, despite aggressive treatments. This limited success is due to aggressive tumor behavior…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
We investigate the impacts of the interannual climate oscillations on the global mean sea level (GMSL) with data derived from satellite radar altimeter observations since 1992. After removin…
Plant Sciences
With more than 93% of corn produced in the United States being genetically modified in some way, it is challenging for non-GMO corn producers to prevent contamination of their crop from GMO…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of vaping in teenagers/adolescents on mental acuity. To test this, a mock Stroop Test was implemented and was used to test three different gr…
Systems Software
When realizing extensive reading curriculum, instructors had to take demanding tasks to set up an appropriate infrastructure, and students were faced by so many unfamiliar words that they av…
Systems Software
GraFX Cipher is a cipher in which text can be encrypted. We use the basic idea that all transformations made to a point on the Cartesian plane can be reversed in order to revert back to the…
University of Louisville, School of Dentistry Periodontitis is one of the most prevalent inflammatory diseases, with an annual expense of 14 billion dollars on disease therapy. It is the lea…
Chemistry
Plastic pollution has become one of the most pressing environmental issues in the world due to low-recycling rates. In this study, I developed a general recycling method, Liquid Floating Pro…
Bird Vetch (Vicia cracca ) is an invasive species in the interior of Alaska. We conducted a greenhouse experiment at UAF, to determine how moisture conditions and competition levels affect v…
Yamitza Rosas Blindness is the third most common disability in the world, around 36 million people are blind (Bourne RRA et al, 2017), ranging from total blindness to 20/200 visual acuity. T…
Animal Sciences
Humans and some other animals detect non-nutritive artificial sweeteners (NAS). To elucidate whether honeybees perceive ‘sweetness’ from NAS, NAS (sucralose and acesulfame-K) were given to h…
Physics and Astronomy
In this project, it is presented a ROOT developed database for gravitational waves (GW) signal decomposition. Thus, it allowed the analysis of two GW detection events: GW150914 and GW170817/…
Translational Medical Science
Anemia is the most common blood disorder in the world, affecting more than 2 billion people. Iron deficiency anemia, in particular, affects more than 1 billion people across the globe with a…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Oil is a hydrocarbon material that can pollute the drainage system. The Hairy Enhanced Oil and Grease Trap function is to trap oil droplets from the wastewater. We are using human hair as th…
Engineering Mechanics
There are currently 7.6 million blind people living in the United States. According to The National Federation of The Blind, “Braille is vital to literacy for the blind. Compared to listenin…
Systems Software
The Universal Serial Bus is a serial communication standard that is implemented in most of the computer-like devices in the world. Despite its acceptance, government and private entities hav…
Materials Science
Nanomaterials development is of high interest for the progress in nanomedicine. The purpose of this project was to evaluate to what extent and in what quantities different types of nanoparti…
Ice bridges are important in Alaska and are required to move large amounts of materials across rivers. Currently ice bridges are built by finding the minimum ice thickness to safely transpor…
Translational Medical Science
Over the past year, approximately 10,000 American teens have died due to a prescription stimulant overdose. A comprehensive, accurate, and easily integrable approach to detect a drug overdos…
Translational Medical Science
The hypothesis of the project was that machine learning can be used to identify disease patterns in medical imaging. Machine learning functions were used to identify patterns in chest X-rays…
Novi High School Novi, MI As news consumption shifts to be based more and more online, there is also a growing trend of deceptive advertising practices in this area. Native advertising, as a…
Translational Medical Science
Thousands of people are affected by ovarian cancer each year. Usually, ovarian cancer is not detected in the early stages. Typically, the cancer is detected when a tumor is already formed. T…
University of New Mexico Ovarian cancer is the deadliest cancer among women. Less than one-half of patients survive for more than five years after diagnosis. After mutilating surgery women s…
Environmental Engineering
With a goal of reducing sand usage and providing a use for waste plastic, the research conducted studied the impact of adding varying percentages of HDPE plastic by mass into concrete blocks…
ARL Fellow Marshall A. Schroeder, Ph.D. Project Advisor Electrochemistry Branch, U.S. Army Research Laboratory Highly concentrated electrolytes have gained attention for their unusual behavi…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Colon cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. Sea cucumbers are a potential source of medicinal compounds and have been consumed in traditional Chinese medicine. Thus, it was hypothesi…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Due to the high contribution of methane gas to the greenhouse effect by anthropogenic events, mainly agriculture and livestock, it arose to propose a homemade alternative method to reduce th…
Plant Sciences
Water Caltrop (Trapa bicornis), also known as devil pod or bat nut, is an aquatic flora with a unique horn-liked shape rhizome. We were interested in its special structure which appears to a…
Biomedical Engineering
Hippotherapy uses the movements of horses to treat people with disabilities. Each hippotherapy patient has different needs, highlighting the importance of researching to understand every asp…
Engineering Mechanics
We have worked in this year’s continuation project on the development of a magnetically levitating vehicle (MLV) that can hover in an actively controlled manner over a diamagnetic aluminum p…