Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Second Award
Pura Aer (PA) is an air purifier system that repurposes disposable face masks and integrates a peregrine falcon-inspired fan design. PA was developed in four phases, with design criteria set…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Background: The aim of my project was to explore whether music theory techniques exert objective emotional effects on listeners and assess the effect of age, gender, race, and musical expert…
Biochemistry
This experiment was performed to see if the bioluminescence of Pyrocystis fusiformis would diminish over time after being exposed to a circadian rhythm that does not include both light and d…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In the pursuit of increasingly robust artificial intelligence, it is useful to look towards nature for inspiration. Neuroevolution does just this by simulating Darwinian-style natural select…
Systems Software
When quantum computers were first conceived of by Richard Feynman, the algorithm that motivated it was the simulation of quantum systems. Rapid performance of simulating quantum systems has…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Over the past few decades, urban areas have been experiencing expedited rates of vegetation growth, a phenomenon known as “urban greening.” The increased vegetation growth and greening trend…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Linguistic polarization is a change in frequency of policy references in a representative’s lexicon. When incumbent representatives face challengers, they may change their speech patterns to…
Twenty years ago in our town of Swannanoa, North Carolina, Beacon Blankets, a blanket factory that ran for more than 100 years and employed generations of people in the Swannanoa and Black M…
Physics and Astronomy
Space is becoming more accessible for industrialization, and it is becoming increasingly clear that the modern world must be environmentally vigilant. The global approach towards the inevita…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
Millions of people in the USA alone suffer from celiac disease or gluten intolerance. In previous work, I identified three fruit-derived enzymes that when combined have an efficient effect i…
Systems Software
Quantum computers promise to revolutionize several scientific fields by solving and simulating certain problems significantly faster than their classical counterparts. However, very few peop…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
Around 3.8 million women in the US are diagnosed with breast cancer. In terms of the survival rate, late or misclassified diagnosis decreases an individual’s chance of survival from 90% to j…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Earthquakes are a major global risk, causing the most fatalities among all natural disasters and billions of dollars in damages. Current earthquake early warning (EEW) systems face significa…
Mathematics
With over 400 million annual infections ranging over the Americas, Asia, and Africa, dengue fever is classified as the disease most frequently transmitted by mosquitoes. Proper medication fo…
Materials Science
The purpose of this project is to develop a bio-conjugated nanomaterial to rapidly detect COVID-19 and to block the binding of the spike protein from SARS-CoV-2 to the ACE-2 receptor on the…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, has resulted in millions of deaths. Rare immune cells are minor cell types with reduced frequency, and their function in COVID-19…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
Features with rare states, such as rare genetic variants and low frequency amino acid mismatches, pose a surrounding their role in predicting outcomes such as disease phenotype. Bins of rare…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Recently, as drone weapons are emerging as new weapons, anti-drone lasers are drawing attention. An anti-drone laser is a laser weapon that tracks and shoots drones. It is known that many re…
Environmental Engineering
The world suffers from a great shortage of water sources suitable for domestic consumption, and the water problem in Palestine is one of the most important challenges facing the community, a…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Dye effluent from the fast fashion and textile industry contributes to 17-20% of global industrial pollution. Azo dyes, the largest class of textile dyes, possess great threats to the enviro…
Deviceless human recognition offers excellent potential for human-machine applications in healthcare and intelligent environments. Although current methods using WIFI Channel State Informati…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
People with hearing and speech impairments use sign language as their main form of communication, but it possesses the disadvantage where they cannot communicate with people without sign lan…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
There are over 1 million ASL speakers in North America and it is claimed to be the third most studied language in the United States. The language barrier between people with impaired or no h…
Microbiology
The purpose of this research was to observe the antimicrobial properties of bromelain from fresh pineapple on E. coli growth using dynamic real-time imaging. Due to bromelain’s ability to in…
Animal Sciences
Tetherless motion tracking is an essential technique for studying insect behavior, allowing for precise recreation and analysis of insect pathing trajectories. One potential application of t…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
Solar phenomena, specifically solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), have plagued the Earth since its creation. In 1859, the Earth was struck with the most devastating CME it’s ever…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This project focused on the development of a model that maximizes accessibility by accurately and efficiently recognizing American Sign Language in real-time, converting it to text without a…
Animal Sciences
Third Award
As the world’s population continuously increases, there is a limitation of the food supply that does not meet the consumers’ demands. With this issue, insects have been introduced by the Foo…
Chemistry
N-Aryl hydroxamic acids (NAHAs) represent a group of valuable synthetic intermediates. Their N OH modification, by appending good leaving group (LG), triggers intramolecular rearrangement le…
Materials Science
With gas prices rising and the need for environmentally friendly transportation growing ever prevalent, efficient airships are an untapped resource to transport people and goods. However, si…