Mammalian Biology
Objectives The purpose of this project was to evaluate the feasibility of transdermal patches as a cost-effective replacement for the intravenous (IV) delivery of dextrose to patients. Metho…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Third Award
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma(PDA) is one of the most malignant tumors, with an estimated 50,000 diagnoses and deaths per year. Current therapies have little effect on PDA due to the tumor’s lar…
Embedded Systems
Robotic tactile sensing systems have been of interest in electrical engineering due to their application to prosthetics, manufacturing, and medicine in imitating human touch. However, there…
Engineering Mechanics
Throughout the past decade, significant aerospace research has been focused on bending the cost curve of space exploration through the development of reusable boosters. However, the investme…
Systems Software
The purpose of my project was to create an artificial intelligence algorithm that would, be able to identify hand-written digits without using any existing artificial intelligence libraries.…
Systems Software
Third Award
Nowadays, Virtual Prototyping and therefore simulation technology is an indispensable part of most product development cycles. The steadily increasing demand for better, cheaper and more rel…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Individuals, governments, and businesses use cryptography extensively to protect data and prevent theft. Cryptographic security relies heavily on truly random numbers. Various components of…
Biochemistry
Development of a Method Towards the Metabolic Monitoring of TCA Cycle Compounds Observed in Rat Urine Using NMR Spectroscopy Sai Sumedha Bobba James Clemens High School, Madison, Alabama, Un…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Glioblastoma is a brain cancer that is resistant to treatment due to the migration of individual glioblastoma cells throughout the brain. This study measured the effect of NE-100, a sigma-1…
Materials Science
Puerto Rico is facing a financial and design problem with its highways (Washington Post, 2017). The material that is being used does not fulfill transportation needs, making the roads hazard…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Antimicrobial peptides have a broad spectrum of antimicrobial activities against bacteria, fungi, and even viruses, and there have been over 5000 AMP’s discovered. Individual peptides can be…
Embedded Systems
Third Award
According to a World Health Organization report, every year natural disasters kill around 90,000 people and affect close to 160 million people worldwide. Natural disasters include earthquake…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Since the discovery of radiation, scientists have endeavored to predict and understand the effects of radioactive materials in humans, which can cause serious ailments. The International Com…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
Rubber can store an amazing amount of energy. Therefore, hobbyists have used rubber strands to power model airplanes for more than one hundred years. The main goal of modelers is to achieve…
Biomedical Engineering
With enormous advancements in nanotechnology, it is becoming increasingly more applicable for the translation of this technology into medicine.Through bio-hybridization, it is possible to de…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
Saccharibacteria is an extremely small (~200nm) uncultivable microbe that lives an unique parasitic lifestyle on various host bacteria, including P. propionicum. Saccharibacteria was recentl…
Translational Medical Science
Angiostrongylus cantonensis (Rat Lungworm) is a parasitic nematode known to infect humans through ingestion of the third stage larvae and can cause inflammation and damage to the central ner…
Engineering Mechanics
Nowadays, numerous researchers around the world devote part of their work to the collecting of samples in order to develop researches, which can increase the product efficiency (mainly food…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
The popularity of proton beam therapy in treating cancer is increasing, and further development of beam detectors is necessary to monitor the beam profile and perform quality assurance. The…
Biochemistry
One of the most common health problems across the globe is the imbalance of hormones in the human body. However, although many suffer from such imbalances, most often, the affected people ca…
Environmental Engineering
Plastic today has become one of the most used materials in the world. From 1950 to 2018, more than 8 million tons of plastics were produced, of which 79% were discarded after use. Plastic pr…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this project was to develop efficient vision processing algorithm. By using a reference line and borders of color the algorithm was simplified, eliminating complex mathematica…
Plant Sciences
Recently, the number of patients suffering from food poisoning is increasing. The best way to decrease food poisoning is to eliminate its causes. To do this, we have tried to develop edible…
Chemistry
Third Award
Objectives 3D printing promises to produce complex biomedical devices according to computer design using patient- specific anatomical data. However, the application of such techniques in bio…
Materials Science
Future Martian explorers will require construction material to build structures and shelters. The cost and lengthy process of shipping material from Earth to Mars makes it an impractical app…
Biochemistry
There are two main types of HIV viruses, HIV-1 HIV-2. HIV-2 tends to progress slower than HIV-1 and it results in fewer deaths. This project was focused on testing a new category of novel Al…
Materials Science
Thrombi formed under blood flow are complex structures of blood coagulation factors, cellular components, and fibrin fibers. In the case of non-tissue vascular grafts, thrombi invade the gra…
Environmental Engineering
Thermal insulation plays a key role in our everyday lives and it is used in a variety of environments ranging from housing to industrial and scientific work. Commonly used thermal insulation…
Energy: Physical
Third Award
Novel hybrid wind turbines are proposed in the present project. The turbines utilize coupling permanent magnet disks and additional motor/generator to widen the range of operable wind speed…
Materials Science
The morphology of the active layer in organic solar cells is critical to performance. By studying the photovoltaic properties of organic solar cell’s microstructure, it is possible to increa…