Mathematics
First Award
The abc-conjecture (Masser and Oesterlé) is an active problem that has remained open for several decades. The conjecture would imply a direct proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem and also shine ne…
Biomedical Engineering
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) affect about 1.7 billion people worldwide. As most MSD cases are associated with abnormal motion of joints, motion assessment of joints provides a powerful t…
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) affect ~1.7 billion people worldwide. As most MSD cases are associated with abnormal motion of joints, motion assessment of joints provides a powerful tool f…
Plant Sciences
Trifolium fragiferum (strawberry clover) is a wild legume species found rarely in Northern European seaside areas and is genetically close to domesticated clover species. Seven micro-populat…
Animal Sciences
Honeybees are an essential part of both natural ecology and human agriculture. Monitoring beehive health is an essential component of beekeeping. Proper monitoring is needed to prevent Colon…
Microbiology
Third Award
Although the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is researchers’ primary target, more conserved non-structural proteins (NSPs) of SARS-CoV-2 can be better targets if sufficiently immunogenic. The hypot…
Materials Science
The colonization of space will be important to the future of mankind. Our nearest celestial body is the moon, and creating a suitable building material using lunar resources will be critical…
Animal Sciences
Climate change caused by global warming formed an environment that is advantageous for vectors and pathogens. Moreover, Incheon, Korea is border on ports and airports, so the possibility for…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
While the original goal of the project seemed rather simple I soon learned that making a machine that carries perpetual motion, forever, would be a long and tiring process. The amount of sma…
Biomedical Engineering
Second Award
Oral cancer is highly treatable when diagnosed at an early stage. In rural India, however, 60% of oral cancer cases are diagnosed with advanced stages. Mass screening requires experienced do…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Desertification (vegetation reduction) is a form of land degradation in drylands, which is a term that encompasses sub-humid areas. According to National Geographic, desertification is a sev…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a debilitating neurological disease affecting the central nervous system and significantly impacting patients’ quality of life. The disease involves inflammation,…
Animal Sciences
Varroa destructor mites have led to a worldwide decline in honeybee populations through the introduction of viruses to bee colonies, including Varroa destructor virus, Lake Sinai Virus, and…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project aims to expose a widespread inaccuracy in the work of academic researchers regarding how music affects human emotion. A centuries-old musical phenomenon known as the “major-mino…
Biomedical Engineering
Cerebral palsy (CP) is a cognitive disorder in which a child's brain cannot send direct messages to a body's muscles, resulting in impaired motor functions. It is a common childhood disabili…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
Missense mutations are a form of genetic variant that result in substitutions of amino acids in protein sequences. These mutations account for approximately half of human inherited diseases…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
The phenomenon in which a single drop breaks up into smaller drops after deforming into a ring was first observed about 100 years ago. However, it was just recently that the breakup mechanis…
Materials Science
MXenes are a 2D nanomaterial typically synthesized using hydrofluoric acid (HF) etching, a process that is time-consuming, unsafe for workers, and environmentally detrimental. A method devel…
In 1885 a scientist named Albert Bernhard Frank discovered a fungus that would enhance plants and the amount of offspring they would produce, he coined this fungus mycorrhizae. In this exper…
Translational Medical Science
Neurodegenerative diseases are among the top five causes of death worldwide, with one major cause of these diseases being high levels of oxidative stress. Nano-antioxidants are emerging nano…
Photothermal therapy (PTT) is a new therapeutic cancer treatment strategy that offers advantages to traditional cancer treatments, such as minimal invasiveness, higher specificity, and preci…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Aortic aneurysms have increased in the past two decades because of the aging population and the rise in the number of smokers. Aortic aneurysms affect about 2.9 million people and is the 13t…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
One may be surprised to learn that the same ingredient, luteolin, is in a huge scope of supplements. Luteolin is the primary ingredient in therapeutic, neuroprotective, anti-inflammatory, an…
Biochemistry
Termite infestations pose a threat to infrastructure and crops throughout the world. Many current termiticides contain toxic carbamates, organophosphates, pyrethroids, and chlorinated hydroc…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of the project is to help people worldwide that are affected by street violence to be able to defend themselves. Women safety is a big issue worldwide and there are self defense…
Translational Medical Science
Dementia-related Cognitive Impairment (CI) is a neurodegenerative disorder, affecting over 55 million people worldwide and growing rapidly at the rate of one new case every three seconds. Th…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Neural networks have improved deep learning, but at times, they can be inefficient. Current networks perform extensive computations on all input data to improve accuracy. However, not all in…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
The existence of adversarial examples, which are inputs that force neural networks to misclassify them, represents a major risk in safety-critical applications of deep learning, such as malw…
Drug repositioning is an emerging approach for drug discovery involving the reassignment of existing drugs for novel purposes. An alternative to the traditional de novo process of drug devel…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Global adolescent death is not primarily due to cardiovascular diseases, cancer, or other infectious diseases, but from suicide–the 2nd leading cause of death in adolescents. However, no obj…