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Using Chlorella vulgaris and Spirulina major To Create an Open System Bioreactor Generating Electricity While Running an Air Purification and CO2 Sequestration System (A 3rd Year Study)

Environmental Engineering Fourth Award

Air pollution, from the burning of fossil fuels, is associated with health issues and CO2 emissions linked to climate change. “Clean energy” sources reduce fossil fuel consumption but have o…

Using Deep Neural Networks to Identify Exoplanets

In 2018, NASA initiated the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to search for planets outside of our solar system. TESS has been gathering large sets of star light data, but the qua…

Using Image Analysis to Study the Effects of Carbon:Nitrogen Ratios in Mock Root Exudates on E. Coli Chemotaxis

With an ever-growing global population, discovering how to grow crops more efficiently is imperative. Plant-microbe interactions in soil are essential to plant growth, and nutrients are a ke…

Using Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) Infusions to Ameliorate Symptoms of Neurodegenerative Diseases

Translational Medical Science

In the 21st century, the mean lifespan has risen to never-before-seen highs. As neurodegenerative diseases are more prevalent among elders, they have become a major threat to humankind, and…

Using Lutjanus campechanus Scales as a Biosorbent to Filter Cu2+, Pb2+, and Cd2+ From Water

Chemistry

In recent years heavy metals have become an environmental concern across the U.S. Metals found in waterways lead to the need for efficient and cost-effective removal methods from drinking wa…

Using Lutjanus Campechanus Scales as a Biosorbent to Filter Cu2+, Pb2+, and Cd2+ from Water

In recent years, heavy metals have become an environmental concern across the U.S. Metals found in waterways lead to the need for efficient and cost-effective removal methods from drinking w…

Using Machine Learning to Discover Novel Drug Combinations Against Malaria

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Malaria is a life-threatening disease, caused by plasmodium parasites, that affects nearly half of the world's population, particularly in Africa, where Plasmodium falciparum is the most com…

Using Mathematical Modeling to Create Non-Gerrymandered Congressional Voting Maps

Mathematics Fourth Award

Gerrymandering is one of the biggest problems in American democracy. Political parties have, in the past few decades, used redistricting as a method of maintaining political control. Often,…

Using Microfluidics in Metabolic Engineering for Environmental Protection

Chemistry

Metabolic engineering offers possibilities of environmental protection using enzymes in biodegradation cascades, which could be used in degrading toxic pollutants from the environment. In th…

Using Microplastics to Sequester Organophosphate Pollutants

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Contaminants of concern such as Malathion (an organophosphate insecticide) pose incredibly dangerous risks to humans and many species vital to their ecosystems. The EPA reports that 97% of p…

Using Pavlovian Conditioning to Promote Attraction of Apis mellifera to the Endangered Orchid Prosthechea cochleata, Year 2

Animal Sciences

Apis mellifera (honeybees) are efficient pollinators, but often overlook native plant species such as the endangered orchid Prosthechea cochleata. Previous research established honeybees cou…

Using Plants to Remove Heavy Metals From Wastewater

Environmental Engineering

I chose this experiment to try to reuse waste from paper mills to make them more environmentally friendly. I discovered the steam from some factories contains trace amounts of ammonia, and t…

Using Primes, Real, and Complex Numbers To Prove That Two Matrices Are Similar

Mathematics

Two matrices, in which their numbers are separated by a number defined by “n” or “ni”, being ‘i’ the imaginary unit, will be similar. This research will work with various types of squared ma…

Using Surfactants to Fight Fire

Chemistry

Wildfires are common in our area and need to be controlled. This project tests surfactants and their effectiveness in fire suppression and their potential applications in firefighting. This…

Using Virtual Reality to Study the Effects of Mutations on BET Protein Interactions

Biochemistry

Bromodomain and extra-terminal (BET) proteins play essential roles in regulating gene expression and immune responses. In fact, BET proteins have been associated with diseases such as cancer…

Utilizing 3D-Printed Engineered Living Materials To Break Down Environmental Pollutants

Environmental Engineering Second Award

Textile dyes have been a leading environmental pollutant for decades, causing mass degradation of ecosystems and wildlife. Although methods have been derived to break down these dyes, none a…

Utilizing 3D Printing Technology to Engineer Prosthetic Human Heart Valves

Biomedical Engineering

For children in need of a heart valve replacement there are many options available. However, none of the available prosthesis are long term solutions. Because the valves are unable to grow a…

Utilizing an Experimental Compost To Accelerate the Degradation Process of Low Crystallinity PET Plastics and Employing Molecular Docking To Analyze Targeted Binding Pockets

Environmental Engineering

Plastic waste is an ongoing environmental pollution and contamination hazard across the world. Our experimental compost has been shown to accelerate the degradation process of low-crystallin…

Utilizing Caulobacter crescentus To Target the Bcl-2 Gene and NF-kB to Cause Apoptosis in Nasal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award

The most common type of paranasal sinus and nasal cavity cancer is squamous cell carcinoma. If left untreated, this cancer has a survival rate of 43%. The status quo treatment options for th…

Utilizing Crop Starches Incorporating Capsaicinoids and Glucosinolates Extracted From Locally Produced Plants To Synthesize Bio-Degradable Insect Deterring and Weed Barrier Plastics as an Alternative to Commercially Produced Agricultural Plastics

Plant Sciences Fourth Award

Currently available chemical insecticides are causing soil contamination. Exploring the potential of utilizing crop starches combined with capsaicinoids and glucosinolates extracted from Cap…

Utilizing FGE To Improve Agricultural Health

Plant Sciences

Crown gall causes great financial loss in plant nurseries, as up to 80% of plants have been lost. Crown gall is a disease that consists of tumor-like galls found in roots and trunks with a p…

Utilizing Nutrient Enriched Biologically Activated Bioremediation Units as a Soil Amendment in a Cyclic Remediation System (A Novel Fifth Year Study)

Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award

Previous research determined that using Chlorella Vulgaris infused Sodium Alginate beads was an effective strategy to return hypereutrophic water systems to natural nutrient levels. Determin…

Utilizing the Adsorption Properties of Renewable Mediums to Reduce Methane

Environmental Engineering

Methane is the second most abundant anthropogenic greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide and accounts for about 20 percent of global emissions. My project tests the ability to utilize the adsor…

Utilizing the Learned Latent Structure from Dimensionality Reduction Algorithms to Prevent the Effects of Catastrophic Forgetting in Neural Networks

In recent years, the neural network has become one of the most powerful tools in the field of machine learning. However, while neural networks are extremely good at learning a singular task,…

Utilizing Unsupervised Machine Learning to Derive and Analyze Therapeutically Insightful Regions of Bacteriophage Genomes

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

While bacteriophages show strong potential as therapeutics for bacterial infections, too little about their genomic structure and content is understood for widespread implementation. The pur…

Validity and Utility of Smudge.io's CNS Tap Test for Measuring Fatigue in Adolescent Athletes

Behavioral and Social Sciences

High school athletes account for approximately two million injuries each year, suggesting that training loads are too intense. Finding an optimal method to monitor fatigue accurately, afford…

Valorization of Using Animal Bones to Produce 3D Printer Filament

Environmental Engineering Fourth Award

Different types of 3D printing filaments have been recently used. One of the most commonly used filaments is PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) along with ABS (Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene)…

VaSt-ID: Novel Application for Variable Star Identification and Classification Using Machine Learning

Physics and Astronomy

Variable stars are critical distance indicators in the universe due to their characteristic period-luminosity relationships. They are a common method which astronomers use to find distances…

VAST (Voice and Spiral Tool): A Novel Multimodal Machine Learning Method to Detect Parkinson’s Disease and Assess Severity

Assistant, Neurocognitive Dynamics Lab, Department of Biomedical Informatics Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder primarily prominent in individuals 65 years and older (t…

VAST (Voice and Spiral Tool): A Novel Multimodal Machine Learning Method To Detect Parkinson's Disease and Assess Severity

Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder primarily prominent in individuals 65 years and older (the elderly population). Despite advances in the medical field, the diagnosis…