Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Fourth Award
When fighting fires, firefighters still must expose themselves to great danger and enter hazardous areas such as burning industrial halls risking their own health. A self-designed and built…
Systems Software
The up to ninety-minute sessions that many patients spend in Magnetic Resonance Imaging machines, due to slow MRI data acquisition rates lead to blurry images, onsets of claustrophobia, hear…
Biomedical Engineering
High-resolution X-rays require greater radiation dosages compared to lower-resolution X-rays. However, lower-resolution low-dose X-rays often lack the pathological detail and clarity require…
Environmental Engineering
In a world where water pollution extends well into the domestic world, accessible treatment solutions are more important than ever. Three years of prior research have proven enzyme-assisted…
Animal Sciences
First Award
Honeybees are essential to society, performing over 80 percent of worldwide pollination. However, commercial hive populations have been decreasing at an alarming rate in the United States. R…
Animal Sciences
Radiotherapy is a cancer treatment that causes an excess of free radicals, which can induce a variety of chronic and degenerative diseases. Curcumin and piperine, potent antioxidants, exhibi…
The transportation sector is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, making up 29% of US emissions with school buses as a significant contributor. While switching to electric buses m…
Plant Sciences
Banana, Musa paradisiaca spp. (Musaceae) is widely cultivated, with a production of more than 50 million tons per year worldwide. Concurrently, an approximate of 1.4 million bananas are dump…
Environmental Engineering
Several countries rely mostly on agriculture. Extensive agriculture using pesticides and herbicides pollutes water. These countries face several problems, such as water pollution, scarcity o…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
The purpose of this project was to determine if vertical migration occurs among any of the zooplankton populations in the littoral zone of Lake Springfield. Samples were collected on five se…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
One of the biggest factors holding intelligent robots back from becoming part of our lives is the difficulty they have navigating the complex and unstructured 3D spaces we live in. This is b…
Systems Software
In this study, a software was created to help humans to remember as this tool utilizes human visual-spatial intelligence to form relationships between memories. VR (Virtual Reality) is commo…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Background: The effective ingredients that are added to cosmetics on the market have concentration limits, which weakens the maximum effect on anti-melanogenic activity. Finding a safer and…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Recent research has shown that neural networks are vulnerable to errors caused by adversarial attacks; when carefully crafted, imperceptible noise is added to inputs, a neural network classi…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
The genetic contribution to the development of type 1 diabetes (T1D) remains unclear; however, certain gene variants contribute to the risk of developing this metabolic disorder. Elucidating…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Subpolar glaciers in the Gulf of Alaska and northwestern Canada are one of the important contributors to sea level rise from global warming. The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRAC…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
Diversity generating retroelements (DGRs) are genetic elements that promote hyper mutations in specific regions of the genome. The targeted mutations of DGRs allow positive traits to manifes…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
Context: There are currently about 82.3 million COVID-19 cases worldwide with 24% of these cases being severe and a 2% mortality rate due to late medical attention. COVID patients have commo…
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this experiment was to derive a textile out of a symbiotic culture of bacteria (acetobacter xylinum) and yeast (SCOBY), and chlorella algae. Engineering goals for this textile…
Microbiology
Acne is an issue that every individual deals with at some point in their life. For most, high school is the time where acne is the most prominent. In addition, the Covid-19 pandemic has made…
Chemistry
Second Award
Tetraponera rufonigra, also known as the bi-colored arboreal ant, is one of the most dangerous invasive ant species globally. Phospholipase from its stings lead to severe anaphylaxis in whic…
Animal Sciences
Oreodonts are a common herbivorous artiodactyl from the Oligocene epoch of Wyoming. While quite common in this area, these creatures are still somewhat understudied and not fully understood.…
Microbiology
My research examines the level of bacterial contamination of nine commonly touched, public surfaces. Nine surfaces sure to be touched several times a day by a diverse pool of people were cho…
Environmental Engineering
A major source of microplastic pollution is in the form of synthetic fabrics that emit fibers through the laundering process and enter Earth’s waterways through wastewater. Existing research…
Plant Sciences
Our research focused on the idea of growing plants without soil, leading to our question: Do plants grown in hydroponics- using a synthetic fertilizer- or aquaponics- using fish fertilized w…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Earthquakes are a major global risk, causing the most fatalities among all natural disasters, as well as significant amount of injuries, displacements, and economic losses. While there has b…
Embedded Systems
Cars companies today are investing millions on car safety techniques but little to none on what would happen if a car crash is inevitable. Car crashes currently cost $1 trillion per year in…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Chloroquine (CQ), a toxic agent, is an anti-malarial drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus. Recently, the former Trump administration controversially promo…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
Air pollution (AP) contains many toxins that collectively harm nearly every organ in the body, and is a key risk factor for many chronic diseases. Aside from its toxic actions, AP may alter…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cancer is the cause of every sixth death globally with inadequate screening attributing to 40,000 deaths in the U.S. annually. An alternative to current genetic mutation screening efforts is…