Embedded Systems
Maintaining optimal soil moisture is an ongoing issue in agriculture. Over-irrigation can lead to waterlogged soil and disease while insufficient water limits crop yield. Irrigation systems…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Chemotherapy is the primary form of treatment for the majority of cancer patients, using cytotoxic drugs to suppress tumor growth. However, cancer cells, by evolving through rapid generation…
Mathematics
Third Award
Ever since the deferred acceptance algorithm was first proposed by Gale and Shapley (1962), there has been much research about mechanisms that optimally match high school seniors to colleges…
Mathematics
Dummit, Granville and Kisilevsky have recently shown that the proportion of semiprimes (products of two primes) not exceeding a given x, whose factors are congruent to 3 modulo 4, is more th…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
Cancer's molecular heterogeneity and complexity pose significant treatment challenges. Drug combinations have recently been employed to enhance cancer therapy due to their synergistic effect…
Plant Sciences
Plants have evolved diverse and complex defense systems in response to insect herbivory. Insect herbivory initiates signal transduction pathways in plants, leading to the creation of defense…
Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
The ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) indicators emphasize reducing product-induced pollution. Nitrogen fertilizers harm the environment and human health. This study used tardigrade M…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cancer cell migration is an important part of the growth of secondary tumors as they invade local tissue, thus finding safe interventions to cancer cell migration can be an important tool to…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Throughout the country, school shootings have disrupted harmony and injected fear into the lives of students and the community. The trait Psychopathy has been clearly linked to gun violence…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Proper cellular morphology and plasma membrane structure during interphase are integral for proper mitosis and homeostasis. Tumor suppressor PTEN (Phosphatase and TENsin homologue deleted on…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
My project explores a novel tri-copter design that uses a combination of a tilt-rotor mechanism, airfoil-shaped drone arms, and the yaw motion of the drone to generate a more energy-efficien…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Third Award
Current research is focused on identifying drugs that can mitigate chemotherapy-induced injury to normal tissues, while being cytotoxic to cancer cells. This study was designed to evaluate t…
Current research is focused on identifying drugs that can mitigate chemotherapy-induced side effects to normal 15 tissues, while being cytotoxic to cancer cells. This study was designed to e…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to see how a pupil reacts to emotional stimulation. I hypothesized that a pupil reacts by dilation to nonverbal emotional stimuli. The participants sat in f…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Third Award
Air pollution, especially PM 2.5, affects the health of millions of people globally, causing premature death. Outdoor air pollutants can leak indoors, leading to pollution concentrations 2-5…
Ambient air pollution contributes to a 7-million annual mortality rate, with gas-powered vehicles among the leading contributors. The current technology being used within gas-powered vehicle…
Environmental Engineering
Ambient air pollution contributes to a 7-million annual mortality rate, with gas-powered vehicles among the leading contributors. The current technology being used within gas-powered vehicle…
Materials Science
Currently, air pollution with organic and biological harmful substances, which cause the increase of various respiratory diseases and severe forms of allergies, is a serious concern. The COV…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
A class of type II diabetes medication interacts with a nuclear receptor known as PPAR?. While these drugs are effective at managing type II diabetes, however, they have dangerous side effec…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In Vietnam, landslides occur frequently and cause great damage to traffic infrastructures and human lives. Follow-up search and rescue campaigns risk the lives of rescue personnel and civili…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Second Award
As mRNA-based therapeutics like COVID-19 vaccines rapidly evolve, degradation remains a key limiter of efficacy and distribution. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) possess a closed-loop structure, co…
Plant Sciences
Second Award
`Macrophomina phaseolina (M. phaseolina) is a soil-borne fungus that impacts many crops and can cause diseases, such as charcoal rot. Therefore, it is necessary to find a successful way to r…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
The current ways to diagnose depression are heavily dependent on patients self-reporting their symptoms which is closely related to its high rate of misdiagnoses. The purpose of this investi…
Physics and Astronomy
The use of artificial light at night has increased rapidly in the last century, elevating artificial skyglow levels due to unwanted light scattering. The consequences are many and range from…
Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
Understanding species distribution and abundance is critical to managing and conserving planetary biodiversity. Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) are keystone species of cultural, economic,…
Understanding species abundance is critical to managing and conserving planetary biodiversity. Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) are keystone species of cultural, economic, and ecological i…
Physics and Astronomy
This project proposes and demonstrates two new quantum computing algorithms which solve the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). The TSP asks for the shortest continuous path in a graph of node…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
Since the groundwork published by Torres-Vega and Frederick, the Quantum Phase Space Representation (QPSR) has been explored as a method for solving a multitude of physical systems and descr…
Systems Software
Our service allows simplification of sightseeing for independent travelers and visitors to exhibitions, museums, shopping centers and open-air panoramic points, as well as speeding up and re…
Research Advisor: Dr. Juliana Carvalho De Arruda Caulkins The purpose of this project was to evaluate the antibacterial potential of phytochemicals rutin, syringic acid, and Ziziphus mucrona…