Biomedical and Health Sciences
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) and insulin resistance have been known for years to be correlated statistically. However, no one has been able to confirm which one causes the other. In an a…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
A big question in the neuroscience community pertaining to our sense of smell is how the olfactory cortex is able to distinguish between millions of odors. I hypothesized that chemical compo…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Fourth Award
Green hydrogen is a continuously rising way of storing clean energy, wherein electricity from renewable sources is used to split water into oxygen and hydrogen. Unfortunately, current materi…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Second Award
COVID-19 has infected over 114 million people as of March 1, 2021, pushing the world towards social and economic collapse. With cases rising rapidly and the current gold-standard for diagnos…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
COVID-19 has caused world-wide disturbances and the deep learning community has been finding ways to combat the disease. Applications of neural networks in image processing tasks allow COVID…
Engineering Mechanics
Because of the fact that underwater vehicle systems [underwater drones] require advanced manufacturing techniques, they are not easily available for technology enthusiasts and tinkerers. The…
Mathematics
The Kimberling shuffle is an integer sequence generated by the shuffling and expulsion of numbers. From the sequence of natural numbers, 1 is expelled and the first integer in front (2) is p…
Physics and Astronomy
Impact cratering is the circular depression byproduct of meteorite collisions on a solid celestial body. Impact craters are important geological and geomorphological features that not only m…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Cancer is Curable, But only when it is detected in its early stages. When focusing on genital skin cancer matters become worse since factors like privacy, comforts, social hurdles and restri…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) is a cancer-causing, environmental toxin that is found in the bloodstream of 98% of the U.S. population. I wanted to figure out how to remove PFOA from water us…
Engineering Mechanics
Is it possible to create a supercomputer for under a thousand dollars? Supercomputers are multiple computers (also called nodes) working together over a network to complete the same code. Th…
Microbiology
Third Award
Currently, more than 800 million are food insecure. While chemical growth promoters are widely used to enhance crop production, they have caused serious environmental pollution and adverse h…
Systems Software
Problem: the creation of a virtual laboratory supplied with machine - program complex for doing chemical, biological, physical experiments theoretically without having any contact with real…
Engineering Mechanics
Solar energy is a source of energy that is readily available and is much needed in our world today. Sadly, due to the high land cost and low panel efficiency, it is not more widespread on a…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
While pancreatic cancer is a deadly disease that is difficult to diagnose at an early stage, early diagnosis yields a much higher survival rate, making it key for treatment. With an increase…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Influenza virus is a single-stranded negative RNA virus, divided into three types, A, B, and C (Shao, Li, Goraya, Wang, & Chen, 2017). This research focused on influenza type A, which mainly…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Although automated face recognition has extensive real-life applications, in scenarios such as looking for lost or kidnapped children and recognizing ID photos, the pictures of the same pers…
Microbiology
This study was performed to determine the cross-species transmission of Drosophila melanogaster Nora virus in other Drosophila species and its effect on geotaxis. There are millions of known…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
Neuroblastoma is one of the most common malignant pediatric tumors, accounting for 10% of all childhood cancer deaths. However, current treatment methods often involve chemotherapeutic agent…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Second Award
The anti-estrogen tamoxifen is a highly effective hormonal therapy for hormonal (HR+) breast cancer patients. However, the estrogen receptor-negative, progesterone receptor–positive (ER-/PR+…
Mathematics
This research approached the optimization of train curves in a mathematical way by using differential geometry and the calculus of variations. Our objective was to find the travel time-minim…
Biomedical Engineering
The revolutionized biomedical industry has a deep connection with the utilization of synthetic biology, to create multi-functional, complex but minimalistic, non-invasive biomedical devices.…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The genome of cells is like an instruction book, telling cells what to do and how to do it. A behavior embedded in the genome of cancer cells known as “tumor self-seeding” (the tendency for…
Materials Science
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated plastic pollution with the rise in PPE and single-use plastic consumption amplifying our plastic dependence and adding more plastic to our oversaturated…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
Observations of the rotation of pulsars, highly magnetized rotating neutron stars, have revealed a mysterious type of rotation anomaly: glitches, discontinuous events where the pulsar sudden…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
Despite major advances in immunosuppression, thousands of transplanted organs are still rejected, endangering the lives of many patients. Traditional approaches to understanding transplant r…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Currently, growing interest has emerged on the beneficial effects of plant-based diets for the prevention of chronic diseases. Studies have shown that polyphenol compounds possess preventive…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
This study used deep learning neural networks to investigate the most important clinical variables that could be used to determine escalated care early on in COVID-19 patients. Hospitalized…
Environmental Engineering
Deer related accidents are a major cause of crashes and deaths in the U.S. Humans are being severely impacted by these accidents, physically and financially. This system aims to decrease the…
Environmental Engineering
Plant starch products that are compostable often take six months to decompose but end up in landfills before this process is complete. These artificial environments do not allow for further…