Microbiology
Seaweeds provide food, habitat, and shelter for a variety of marine organisms. They have properties that allow them to regulate the absorption of CO2 and the trophic scale in the ocean. In C…
Environmental Engineering
SARS-CoV-2 infection is caused by the aerosol dispersion of droplets or droplet nuclei. Therefore, there is a growing need to investigate aerosol particle behaviors to prevent the spread of…
Biomedical Engineering
Optimal management of diabetes requires frequent blood glucose testing that necessitates phlebotomy or finger stick with a lancet, a painful procedure that reduces patient compliance. This c…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Computer modeling allows for simulating unknown events of the past and the future. Since specific details about the evolutionary process are unknown, I created a model to analyze predator an…
Biomedical Engineering
Parkinson's Disease (PD) affects 7-10 million people globally. Usual observable symptoms of PD include stiffness, slowness, tremor, gait change and speech distortion. Currently, there is no…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
Since the 1930s, dark matter (DM) has accounted for a host of astronomical observations that cannot be explained using the standard physics model, such as the discrepancy in rotation curves…
Biochemistry
The purpose of this experiment is to investigate how a stimulant decongestant in combination with household stimulant and depressant substances affects the action potential of Acheta domesti…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
First Award
The Arctic is warming three times faster than the rest of the world, causing decreased sea ice and permafrost, changing ecosystems, and threatening the livelihoods of indigenous people. In t…
An increase of natural polymer-based film materials in the food industry has occurred in recent years to reduce petroleum-based plastic accumulation. Previous research developed starch-based…
Materials Science
Polyolefin (PO) based multilayer plastic packaging (MPP) has recently attracted extensive attention. However, practical end-of-life treatment strategies for MPP are missing from the communit…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
My research this year continued to investigate the anticancer effects of Lomatium dissectum, commonly known as fern leaf biscuit root (“doza" in our Native language), and Sambucus caerulea,…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of my research was to investigate the possible antibacterial properties of Artemisia tridentata (Big Sagebrush). I hypothesized that Artemisia tridentata would inhibit the growth…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
Dementia will become an epidemic with projected growth from 55 million to 153 million in 2050. Despite such severity, mainstream pharmacological and alternative therapies such as acetylcholi…
Translational Medical Science
Third Award
This experiment was devoted to creating a mesenchymal stem cell therapy to repair the damage done by celiac disease, an autoimmune disease in which gluten produces an inflammatory response i…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cancer is an extremely variant and personalized disease that is characterized by the disruption of regular cell functions. These disruptions can be analyzed by examining regulatory network c…
Biochemistry
Tau protein is an intrinsically disordered protein (IDP) with essential roles in the assembly, stabilization, and modulation of microtubules, which play a critical role in the proper functio…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease and affects memory and learning. Recent data suggest mitochondrial fragmentation in AD likely underlies impaired mitocho…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Accidents involving visually impaired people while walking are one of the serious social issues (e.g., falling off station platforms and crossing crosswalks without acoustic signals). The ri…
Translational Medical Science
Cancer accounts for nearly 10 million deaths annually, and treatment relies on identifying tissue origin. Traditional diagnostics are time-consuming, with wait times up to 120 days from symp…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
First Award
Replication errors represent two-thirds of cancer mutations. A novel subset, micro-changing short tandem repeats (mcSTRs), lack systematic examination in cancers due to complex chromosomal a…
Embedded Systems
The project aims to develop a portable micro-controlled device that uses the Gauss method to calculate irregular areas. The main purpose is being able to help in civil projects with support…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Previous research suggests that abiotic factors facilitate the degradation of artificial polymers, such as polyethylene, into microplastics. However, current research has not yet explored ho…
Previous research has suggested that abiotic factors, such as UV irradiation, facilitate the degradation of artificial polymers, such as polyethylene, into microplastics. However, current re…
Embedded Systems
Fourth Award
In biotechnology, fluorescence is a commonly used optical reporter for signaling the presence of specific substances. However, the use of fluorescence is limited by the high cost of traditio…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The malaria parasite, Plasmodium, infects over 200 million people annually and causes over 500,000 deaths, primarily impacting developing countries. After a decline within the last decade, m…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Second Award
Cyanobacteria blooms in rivers have grown in intensity due to climate change and water pollution. During these blooms, microcystis, a type of cyanobacteria, releases toxins called microcysti…
Coffee has become one of the most popular beverages world-wide. But how is coffee made? Coffee beans can be studied to generate new, more effective methods to crush the beans. I studied and…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
Observations and theoretical simulations suggest that the large scale environment plays a significant role in how galaxies form and evolve and, in particular, whether and when galaxies host…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
3D pose estimation, the task of reconstructing the skeletal structure of a human subject, has a plethora of applications in medicine, the animation industry, augmented reality, and much more…
Animal Sciences
Cancer radiotherapy weakens surrounding benign cells whilst eradicating a malignant tumor. These consequences are indicative of a general decline in cellular vitality within the organism. Em…