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Sustainable Water Purification by Indigenous Fruit Waste Technology (SWIFT): Ingenious Solution to Reuse Food Waste to Reduce Environmental Pollution

Environmental Engineering Fourth Award

Clean water scarcity and food waste management are major environmental concerns worldwide. Food wastes are rich in bioactive compounds that are currently being disposed of in landfills, gene…

Sustaining Spacecraft: Application of Novel Photobioreactor System in Aerospace Gaseous Exchange

Microbiology (General) Second Award

Algae has shown promise in many industries; its growth efficiency and health benefits demonstrate the capacity to enhance human sustainability. Recent research by the National Aeronautical a…

Synergistic Effect of Co-Exposure to SOA and Transition Metals Induces Toxicity and Developmental Defects in vitro and in vivo

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Particulate matter (PM) is one of the biggest factors endangering human health, which leads to millions of premature deaths. Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) is an aerosol formed by multiple…

Synthesis and Characterization of Manganese Desert Rose Nanoparticles: A Fourth Year Study

Chemistry Third Award

Nanoparticles are of significance because of their small size and unique characteristics. Few studies have been conducted on the synthesis of manganese nanoparticles. This project was among…

Synthesis and In-Depth Evaluation of Degradable Copolymers via Cyclic Ketene Acetal Incorporation

Chemistry Third Award

Plastic accumulation is an increasing threat to the natural environment, therefore it is imperative that degradable polymers are developed as an alternative to standard petroleum-based plast…

Synthesis and Surface Modification of Porous Silicon Quantum Dots with Enhanced Photoluminescence for Bioimaging Applications

Chemistry Fourth Award

Around 50% of cancers are only diagnosed at late stages, due to a lack of early cancer detection techniques. Quantum dots (QDs) have emerged as a new class of fluorescent labels for ultra hi…

Synthesis of 4d- and 5d-Element Based Transition Metal Oxides

Transition metal oxides (TMOs) have long been the topic of research due to their wide range of potential technological applications (e.g., high-density magnetic data storage and spintronics)…

Synthesis of a novel cyclic peptide-drug conjugate targeting CDCP1 for non-small cell lung cancer therapy

Chemistry First Award

Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is one of the most common causes of cancer deaths. Many chemotherapeutic agents non-specifically target dividing cells, thus requiring a higher dosage to a…

Synthesis of a Sustainable Bio-Nanocomposite Coating to Reduce Post-Harvest Agriculture Losses

Materials Science

World hunger is a growing issue and affects up to 820 million people globally. Although there are increasing efforts to increase sustainability, approximately ? of food produced globally is…

Synthesis of Disulfide-Containing Polymeric Nanomedicine Carriers Suitable for Cysteamine and R848

Current polymer-based nanomedicine carriers have several shortcomings regarding their efficacy: low drug loading capacity, premature drug release, poor in vivo monitoring capability, and lim…

Tactical Drone Detection and Tracking using Machine-Learned Radio Interferometry: Lessons from Ukraine

Electronics & Electromagnetics First Award

The utility of inexpensive radio-controlled drones has never been clearer than during the present conflict in Ukraine. Remote-controlled aircraft—quadcopters, small planes, and even balloons…

Tactical Drone Detection and Tracking Using Machine-Learned Radio Interferometry: Lessons From Ukraine

Embedded Systems Third Award

The utility of inexpensive radio-controlled drones has never been clearer than during the present conflict in Ukraine. Remote-controlled aircraft—quadcopters, small planes, and even balloons…

Targeted Drug Delivery for Aortic Aneurysms: Using Computational Fluid Dynamics to Optimize Drug Delivery & Treatment

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award

Aortic aneurysms have increased in the past two decades and affect about 2.9 million people. Although surgical treatments have become increasingly sophisticated, there is a lack of efficient…

Targeted Mutagenesis of the Arabidopsis deoxyhypusine Synthase Gene via CRISPR/Cas9 Enzyme Engineering Generating an Increase in Carbon Sequestration and Photosynthetic Rate

Plant Sciences Fourth Award

Our world is headed toward a severe climate crisis: predicted to rise 1.5 degrees Celsius over the next two decades. Carbon dioxide represents 80% of polluting greenhouse gas emissions (412…

Targeting Drug Resistant Cancer Cells by Plant Based Bio-Active Compounds

Biochemistry

Development of drug resistance is a great challenge in cancer treatment as existing chemotherapeutics become ineffective after some time. For this project, human breast cancer cells MCF-7 Wt…

Targeting Neoantigens Derived From the ZRSR2 Mutation in Hematologic Malignancies

Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award

Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are two types of hematologic malignancies with especially poor prognoses and limited therapeutic options. Notably, mutations i…

Targeting Signaling Molecules of P. aeruginosa by Using Mucin as an Anti-Quorum Sensing Drug: A Novel Design To Evaluate Efficacy in the Context of Multidrug Resistance

Microbiology Second Award

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a gram-negative opportunistic pathogen involved in several human diseases such as cystic fibrosis. This bacterium is highly resistant to antibiotic treatments due t…

TaxHorn: A Novel, Taxonomy-Aware, Beta-Diversity Metric for Comparison of Microbiome Populations

While there are numerous metrics currently available for measuring beta diversity, none of these are 108 particularly optimized for work within the human microbiome. I set out to create a ne…

Teaching AI to Play Tennis

Mathematical Sciences Honorable_mention Award

Artificial intelligence will be the next great leap for mankind, and it will influence all of our lives. My objective was to create an artificial intelligence neural network that is capable…

Teach Me Braille: A Kit Consisting of Modules and Applications That Can Provide Fully Efficient Education for Visually Impaired Students and Support the Problems Faced by Individuals in Their Daily Life With the Help of Machine Learning Approaches

Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award

Disabled people experience difficulties in many areas of daily life. The main reason for these difficulties is the great gap in the research about the solutions to the daily life problems of…

Tesla Turbine: Outdated or Modern Innovation?

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

The Tesla or bladeless turbine, developed by Nikola Tesla in 1913, has a cost-efficient and simple design. The tangential flow of a fluid and its viscosity interacting with the turbine’s dis…

Testing Low-Budget Water Purification Methods for Rural Areas Using Physical Models

Earth & Environmental Sciences Honorable_mention Award

Obtaining clean water over the past century has become increasingly difficult due to climate change, drought, and overpopulation. This project aimed to uncover cost-efficient methods to puri…

Testing Shank 3-deficient C. elegans as an Autism model on repetitive/social deficits from my last study on NLG-1 mutant

Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by an obsessive adherence to repetitive motion, language, and behavior. Neuroligin, a trans-synaptic adhesion mo…

Testing the Effectiveness of a Bioplastic Layer Bonded to Natural Chelating Agents on the Minimization of Lead Iodide Leaching in Perovskite Solar Cells and a Novel Antireflective Coating Derived from Corn and Lotus Leaf Imprints on the Cell

Earth & Environmental Sciences First Award

Due to the inefficiencies of silicon solar cells, scientists developed perovskite solar cells that are 20% more effective. Unfortunately, they are environmentally harmful and contain lead io…

Testing the Effectiveness of a Bioplastic Layer Bonded to Natural Chelating Agents on the Minimization of Lead Iodide Leaching in Perovskite Solar Cells and a Novel Antireflective Coating Derived From Corn and Lotus Leaf Imprints on the Cell

Environmental Engineering Second Award

Due to the inefficiencies of silicon solar cells, scientists developed perovskite solar cells that are 20% more effective. Unfortunately, they are environmentally harmful and contain lead io…

Testing the Effectiveness of Sabellastarte spectabilis as a Potential Bioremediator

Environmental Engineering Third Award

Water pollution is an issue that affects living organisms worldwide. As human activity continues to increase pollution in our oceans, the livelihood of all marine creatures is affected, from…

Testing the Tensile Strength of Cordage Made of Fibers From Plants Found on St. Croix

Environmental Engineering

Cord-making is a simple skill that has been used for thousands of years, yet very few people in the modern world know anything about the process. The purpose of this project was to determine…

Testing Time Variables of Submersion on Pomacea bridgesii Egg Clusters

Animal Sciences

The Pomacea maculata (apple snail) is a large, aquatic snail species invasive to the Southern United States. They consume large amounts of vegetation, which leads to wetland erosion as well…

Test Yourself by Yourself

Biomedical Engineering Third Award

Breast cancer ranks first among the most common types of cancer globally, regionally and locally, as early detection of breast cancer increases the cure and survival rate, increases treatmen…

The Ability of Vitamin E to Improve the Reproduction, Locomotor Fitness, and Metabolic Respiration of Nicotine-Induced D. melanogaster

Animal Sciences Third Award

As of 2021, 20.7% of Americans have reported consuming nicotine, which is known to severely decrease the viability of human sperm, accelerate the loss of eggs, and alter the respiratory syst…