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Noisy Coins: Analyzing Coin Sound Spectra

Currency detectors like vending machines have trouble differentiating between some coins because they find out which coin is which using physical property such as mass and electrical conduct…

No K.O. - Studies on Rapid Determination Methods of GHB and GBL in Different Party Drinks

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

K.O- drops, everyone knows these dangerous drugs from the media. I have heard more and more of instances where these drugs were used to make people helpless. Starting point of my idea was th…

Nomophobia: Effects of Smartphone Dependence and Separation on Stress, Anxiety, Memory and Cognition in Developing Adolescent Brain

Biomedical and Health Sciences

In this mobile age, smartphones are considered the latest evolution of mobile technologies. Although the mobility of smartphones helps people satisfy basic needs, it also causes problems ass…

Non-Invasive Monitoring of Inflammation in a Genetically-Modified, Tissue Engineered Vascular Model

Biomedical Engineering

Across the world, the leading cause of death is cardiovascular disease. An underlying cause of many cardiovascular diseases is atherosclerosis, which occurs when plaque builds up in the vasc…

Non-planar Slicing for Extrusion-based 3D Printing

Third Award

With increasingly-complex concepts being developed in areas such as aerospace engineering, 3D printing is relied upon for prototyping and part manufacturing. However, due to the additive met…

Novel Application of Microwave Power Transfer for the Recharging of Batteries in Biomedical Devices

Third Award

Implanted biomedical devices, such as pacemakers use batteries as power sources. These batteries run out over time and patients must undergo surgery to replace these batteries. Due to the hi…

Novel Automated Designs and Rapid Multivariate Optimization of Next-Generation Multijunction Quantum Dot Solar Cells Using Monte Carlo Modeling

Second Award

Large-scale adoption of solar power is limited by high cost compared to fossil fuel-based power generation. Multijunction quantum dot solar cells offer a potential high-efficiency, low-cost…

Novel bioindicators of urban stormwater runoff toxicity in developing fish

Biochemistry

Urban stormwater runoff adversely impacts the health of marine life. A more holistic approach to assessing water quality in urbanized areas should include indicators of fish health that are…

Novel Chromogenic Vapor Sensors Enabled by Shape Memory Polymers

The detection of toxic chemical vapors is a significant issue in environmental monitoring, disease detection and national security, yet no cheap, user-friendly, multipurpose sensor is curren…

Novel Design and Optimization of an EGFRvIII-based Cancer Peptide Vaccine

Cancer vaccines are a revolutionary, new field of cancer therapeutics that aim to utilize the body’s natural defenses to treat cancer. Through my research, I designed and optimized an effect…

Novel Design of Water Soluble Porphyrin Containing Supramolecular Complex Nanoparticles for Enhanced Photodynamic Cancer Therapy

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award

Photodynamic cancer therapy (PDT) is an emerging technology that treats a variety of cancers without any side effects. In PDT, photosensitizers accumulated near cancer tumors are activated t…

Novel Low Grade Waste Heat Recovery System with Simultaneous Electricity Generation, Carbon Sequestration and Urea Production

First Award

Over 60% of energy generated during electricity production is discarded as low-grade waste heat. Concurrently, modern power plants are reluctant to capture and sequester flue-gas CO2, due to…

Novel Method of Circulating Prostate Tumor Cell Separation Using Adhesion Rolling in a Micropatterned, Microfluidic Device

Systems Software Second Award

Tumor-shed cells from an epithelial lining lesion, or circulating tumor cells (CTCs), have been of significant concern with its highly characteristic identification and origin in metastatic…

Novel Mosquito Control: Variable-Frequency Sound Sweep to Disrupt Aedes aegypti Mating

Systems Software

Current mosquito control methods, including chemical approaches and genetically-engineered solutions are impractical in some cases as a form of vector control. In many emergent global region…

Novel Natural Solution to Control Oral Disease

Among several dental problem caries process is deadly serious and chronic too. It is an irreversible microbial disease of calcified tissues of teeth. Bacterial plaque plays the primary role…

Novel Observations on Intracardiac Electrograms Recorded During Ventricular Fibrillation

Biomedical Engineering

Background: Ventricular fibrillation (VF), is a potentially lethal cardiac arrhythmia, and the number one cause of death in the United States. This condition is traditionally characterized b…

Novel Photocatalytic Pervious Composites for Removing Multiple Classes of Toxins from Water

Second Award

Water is an indispensable resource essential for the survival of all species; however, 780 million people in the world lack access to clean water. Due to rising population, industrial develo…

Novel Potent Inhibitors for CIP2A with Mutational Classification Method

The human cancerous inhibitor of PP2A (CIP2A) is regarded as a novel target for cancer therapy as it’s overexpression in 65% to 90% of tissues in almost all studied human cancers correlates…

Novel Therapeutic Intra-Arterial Pharmacotherapy Administration for Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke

Biomedical Engineering

Stroke is the 5th leading cause of death in Kentucky and the United States as well as the leading cause of long-term disability in several countries. Despite its vast implications, there is…

Novel Treatment Strategy for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: Malignant B1 Cell Depletion via Siglec-10 Stimulation

Biomedical Engineering Second Award

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL), a cancer of B1 cells, is the most widespread leukemia in the world. Current chemotherapies fail to effectively target the malignant B1 cell subset in CLL,…

Nucleophilic Difluoromethylation of Arylidene Meldrum's Acid Derivatives

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

About 20% of novel pharmaceuticals and 40% of novel agrochemicals appearing every year contain at least one fluorine atom in their structure. However, the lack of existing methods for obtain…

Objective Assessment Criteria for Median Based Filtering of Impulse Noise Corrupted Images

Impulse noises can seriously corrupt images. Median based filters are used to remove impulse noises. However, these filters introduce distortions while removing impulse noises. Traditionally…

Object Recognition Based UAV Control

Fourth Award

A new approach to UAV control, combining computer vision and control techniques, is introduced. Objects are detected using a UAV camera. The distance between the object center of mass, in th…

Observational Determination of Near Earth Asteroid Rotation Rates

The purpose of this research was to classify Near Earth Asteroids. The type of asteroid determines how dangerous they are to Earth and the best way to move them if they will hit Earth. The a…

Observations of Phytosterol: A Novel Method of Anti-Cancer Treatment Using Plant Based Steroid Compounds

Translational Medical Science

The loss of cell to cell adhesion is one of the significant features of cancer. Proteins found in cell junctions, or groups of proteins which helps cells bind to each other, are downregulate…

Obtention of Detergent Solution for Organ’s Decellularization Process

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award

Transplantation is a process that consists in replace a diseased organ or tissue for a healthy exemplar of it. In many times this is the only effective treatment to cure the disease. However…

Oh! How You Affect My Heart! (Again)

Animal Sciences

Problem: To determine if Turmeric or Motherwort is more successful in lowering the heart rate of a Daphnia. Hypothesis: If we are to expose the Daphnia to the Motherwort it will be a bit mor…

Oil Filter Recycling Plant

The main task was to find a new disposal method for used oil filters. A company in Costa Rica had big problems with contamination of the ground and ground water with oil because of the throw…

Oink-ity Oink

Biochemistry

The purpose of this experiment is to determine if a colostrum-based supplement will decrease the amount of time it will take a piglet to get up and sucking on a sow’s teat immediately after…

Olympics, Year Three: Training for Gold

Systems Software

The purpose of this project is to learn where most medal winning Olympians are training. Using a computer with internet access, search for official Olympic data medal counts by athlete for t…