Acute bacterial meningitis is a medical crisis with a poor prognosis, especially if treatment is prolonged. Development of bacteremia and sepsis is common during infection and neurological s…
Microbiology (General)
Objectives Maximize consumption of ethylene glycol by engineering a bacteria Pseudomonas putida (P. putida) KT2440. Methods Designed a plasmid with the genes involved in converting ethylene…
Plant Sciences
Rice is a major food source worldwide with 3.5 billion people depending on it. Rice yield loss is up to 47% annually because of the use of herbicides. To address this problem, CRISPR/Cas9 sy…
Engineering Mechanics
Buoyancy issues as a result of a boat crash are called Bubble Butt Syndrome (“Sea Turtle Injuries”). There are no means of getting the trapped air out of the turtle without further injuring…
Energy: Chemical
The dependence on renewable energy resources has increased tremendously. For industrial and large-scale applications, these energy resources require the use of effective and safe large-scale…
Systems Software
As deep learning is being implemented into multiple areas, the technique of describing the content of the image automatically has receive public attention and is being broadly used in circum…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Third Award
The enzyme Fidgetin-like 2 (FL2) suppresses cell migration by severing intracellular filaments called microtubules (MTs). Mouse studies showed that depleting FL2 using small interfering RNA…
Biomedical Engineering (inferred)
Concussion research has become a very relevant topic across various media outlets. In the NFL there was an increase of 58% on the amount of concussions during the regular season in 2016. Con…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Wind energy has reduced our environmental impact, but it has also destabilized the power grid, which is an obstacle to green energy integration. If we can predict short-term (2-5 minutes) wi…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Eniac Se’avarador, a new environmental-friendly technology is innovated mainly to monitor the quality of water for agriculture use. However, the focus of this innovation is on the alkalinity…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Background: Traditional chemical-based treatments for disease are non-specific and cause undesirable side effects. These non-target effects can be avoided by site-specific, targeted therapy…
Plant Sciences
Third Award
Melientha suavis Pierre (MSP) an indigenous wild plant grown from seeds with slow growth rate and high mortality, but high consumption demand leading to relative high price. In general, plas…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Third Award
Gefitinib, which is a small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) of epithelial growth factor receptor (EGFR), is currently under investigation for colon cancer treatment. However, some p…
Epha4b gene expression may contribute to variances in facial formation including functional differences such as nose shape and clinical conditions such as cleft palate. During craniofacial d…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Age-related diseases are resulting in premature aging in humans, and it is reducing society’s quality of living. Studying genes related to premature aging will help further research to creat…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives This study examines epigenetic therapy as a treatment for slowing the growth of cancerous liver cells. In addition to having genetic and environmental causes, cancer can be consid…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
This study examines epigenetic therapy as a treatment for slowing the growth of cancerous liver cells. More specifically, epigenetic changes such as the abnormal patterning of DNA hypo- and…
Materials Science
Horse hair has the potential to be a low-cost, widely accessible suture material for the use in third world countries. Historically, horsehair was used during the Civil War and in ancient In…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Third Award
Objectives Our nation s report card for reading is at an all-time low. This is due to the failed ways to improve students reading levels. These methods do not push the students enough and th…
Systems Software
The objective of this project is to develop a prototype that allows the deaf members of the " AGRUPACIÓN ENTRE EL SILENCIO Y EL RUIDO COYHAIQUE (ASCOY)", to request the presence of any of th…
Engineering Mechanics
Nowadays the world's biggest problem is producing electricity Reason of this problem is spending a lot of money and the environmental pollution which forms by the harmful gases. In our proje…
Embedded Systems
The purpose of this project is to help the visually impaired and deaf learners to measure the length of an object based on the angles subtended at the center of a revolving disc. The main pr…
Toxicology
First Award
Objectives Recent studies have shown that puberty is occurring earlier in both boys and girls for unknown reasons. Some studies suggest essential oils may disrupt the hormonal system, trigge…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
This experiment was designed not only from a continuation of a previous year, but as well as an improvement. Essential oils were present to prove that they have special and unique properties…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Angiogenesis is requisite for the growth and metastatic spread of solid tumors. Identifying pathological angiogenesis regulators will provide therapeutic targets against solid tumor growth.…
Engineering Mechanics
Third Award
According to the World Health Organization, over 285 million people are visually impaired, and high rates of illiteracy among them are mainly a result of an unaffordable technology for readi…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
First Award
Objectives Does select natural remedies possess anticoagulating properties and how they compare with untreated samples in an in vitro study? The primary objective of this in vitro study was…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics, plastics under 5 millimeters in diameter, are becoming an increasingly problematic aspect of water pollution for both humans and the environment. There is an estimated micropl…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Introduction The purpose of this experiment is to bring awareness to air pollution. In recent years news reportings on severe wildfires, such as the California and Texas wildfires, has focus…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Severe weather events such as tornadoes and high-wind thunderstorms pose a significant threat to human life and well-being. According to the NOAA, severe storms have caused over $200 billion…