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A Novel 3D Printed Ventilator for COVID-19

Mammalian Biology First Award

A Novel AI-Based GPS Anti-spoofing System with Subspace Differential Direction-of-Arrival Estimation and Deep Learning Against Dynamic Spoofers

Embedded Systems Third Award

Many critical systems, including financial, banking, telecom and nuclear weapons, rely on the Global Positioning System (GPS) for synchronization of clocks that is essential for their operat…

A Novel All-In-One Membrane for Microplastics Removal, Oil-Water Separation, and Organic Dyes Photodegradation in Wastewater

Environmental Engineering

Rapid industrial development has led to severe environmental damage and negative impact on human health due to the release of unwanted massive microplastics (diameter < 5 mm), water-soluble…

A Novel and Efficient Method of Persistent Homology to Detect and Remove Topological Errors in Triangle Mesh Data

Mathematics First Award

Motivation: Many applications in the medical and engineering fields benefit from identifying topological features in a three-dimensional geometric model. Problem statement: When an object’s…

A Novel and Low-cost Microfluidic-based C. elegans Electrotaxis Assay for Screening of Toxic Chemicals in Water

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Lack of access to drinking water due to anthropogenic hydrosphere pollution is a widespread humanitarian issue facing the global population, particularly those vulnerable due to their geogra…

A Novel Approach for Nuclear Waste Curation: A Manganese and Uranium Coupled Biogeochemical Cycle

Chemistry

Nuclear waste disposal is a global concern. The problem of nuclear waste disposal is growing and threatens the environment, people, and future generations as well. As we continue to release…

A Novel Approach to Bio-Friendly Microplastic Extraction with Ascidians

Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award

Microplastic pollution in water is now recognized as a devastating problem by many organizations, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, with recent studies estimating…

A Novel Approach to Citrus Disease Management: Leveraging Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Convolutional Neural Networks

Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award

Huanglongbing (HLB) is an incurable disease that affects citrus trees. This citrus disease is also often referred to as "citrus greening." This disease was first spotted in China in the earl…

A Novel Approach to Estimate the Number of Asteroids in Different Belts Using Weighted Regression

Mathematics

The asteroid population is incomprehensibly large. Understanding, discovering and tracking asteroids are important to avoid catastrophic events to human civilization. Around one million aste…

A Novel Approach to Increase Testing with Contact Tracing Apps in COVID-19 Pandemic

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Recent rise in COVID-19 cases has highlighted the need for effective and targeted measures to reduce the spread of the virus. Consequently, app-based tracing strategies have been proposed as…

A Novel Approach to the Comparative Analysis of Natural Polymer-based Biomimetic Neural Scaffolds: Using the Taxic Response of Fungal Mycelium to Model Cell Response and Repair in Peripheral Nerve Gap Injuries such as the Medulla spinalis in Paraplegics

Biomedical Engineering

The comparative analysis of natural polymer-based biomimetic neural scaffolds using the taxic response of fungal mycelium was designed to investigate functional deficits following Spinal cor…

A Novel Approach to Treating Burn Wound Infections Using Flavonoids: Exploring the Interaction between Antibiotics and Flavonoids

Biochemistry

The purpose of this experiment is to find a novel way to treat burn wound infections by exploring the interaction between flavonoids and antibiotics. 'Flavonoids' are naturally derived secon…

A Novel Approach to Utilizing Collapsible Origami Structures in Weight Bearing Applications

Engineering Mechanics

This study investigates the use of rescue device structures made with inspiration from origami as a viable replacement for modern day debris lifting rescue devices. The structure studied as…

A Novel Assay to Quantitatively Detect Bacterial Endotoxin by Harnessing PAMP-Triggered Immunity of FRK1-LUC Arabidopsis thaliana

Plant Sciences Third Award

Harvesting Limulus polyphemus (horseshoe crabs) to produce the Limulus amoebocyte lysate endotoxin assay for medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and drinking water is ravaging coastal ecosyste…

A Novel Carbon Dioxide Filtration Device Utilizing Calcium hydroxide and Chlorophyta to Remediate the Impact of Global Climate Change on Aquatic Ecosystems

Environmental Engineering

Climate change is an area of growing concern that threatens the earth as a whole. Due to an excess production of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere, the difference in pressure encou…

A Novel Computational Approach to Drug Discovery Through Drug Repositioning

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Current processes of drug discovery are too long, expensive, and ineffective. Companies undergo years of research and development without the certainty of obtaining conclusive results. Drug…

A Novel Computer Simulation of a Deployable Parachute System with Aerial Detachment of the Cabin for Commercial Airplane Crashes, Year Two

Engineering Mechanics

This project aimed to determine the viability and effectiveness of a detachable airplane cabin equipped with a novel design of a parachute system in correcting the translational and rotation…

A Novel Deep Learning Model for Estimating Tropical Cyclone Intensity from Satellite Images

Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award

Estimating the intensity of tropical cyclones (TCs) is one of the most important aspects in TC forecasts. Currently, the operational method of TC intensity estimation is the Dvorak Technique…

A Novel Deep Learning System for Scoliosis Assessment: Automatic Extraction of Skeletal Maturity Using Region Proposal and Compound Scaling Convolutional Neural Networks

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award

Scoliosis is a condition of abnormal spinal curvature with approximately 60,000 U.S. pediatric patients undergoing surgery or being placed into braces each year. Skeletal maturity assessment…

A Novel Efflux Pump Inhibitor Improves Chemotherapeutic Efficacy Against P-glycoprotein-expressing Glioblastoma Stem Cells

Biomedical and Health Sciences

The most commonly administered chemotherapeutic agent in Glioblastoma (GBM) treatment, Temozolomide (TMZ), fails to generate a clinically significant response in over 50% of patients due to…

A Novel Evolution-Based Technique for Generating Anticancer Peptides (Year 2)

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Cancer threatens millions of individuals every year and remains a central issue in the scientific community. It’s important to search for new alternative treatments, and anticancer peptides…

A Novel Hard/Soft Spinel Ferrite Nanocomposite as Potential Electrode Material for a Supercapacitor

Materials Science

Modern-day supercapacitors have problems including lack of good dynamic performance, low power rates and insufficient energy storage. Features such as voltage malfunction can occur when the…

A Novel Home-Built Metrology to Visualize Oral Fluid Droplets and Quantify the Efficacy of Masks

Materials Science First Award

A Novel Hybrid Deep Learning Model to Predict Acute Kidney Injury Using Patient Record Data and Ultrasound Kidney Images

Translational Medical Science

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is the sudden onset of kidney damage in which the kidneys cannot filter waste from the blood, requiring emergency hospitalization. AKI patient mortality rate is hig…

A Novel Integrative WSI-Based Deep Learning Framework For Breast Cancer IMS Classification

Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award

Breast cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women globally. Advanced diagnosis of intrinsic molecular subtype is key to evaluating intermediate survival; however, b…

A Novel Low-Cost Filtration System for Removing Arsenic and Improving Health in Rural Populations

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Approximately 200 million people worldwide are affected by arsenic-contaminated water for reasons such as drinking tube well groundwater. In 2019, the author created a novel and inexpensive…

A Novel Machine Learning Based Identification Tool (ELECT) for Early Colorectal Cancer Detection through Advanced Microbiome Composition Analysis

Translational Medical Science

Colorectal cancer(CRC) ranks third in occurrence and second in mortality among all cancers. Current CRC identification methods are often ineffective due to the invasiveness of such procedure…

A Novel Mask Insert to Reduce Habitual Particle Transmission

Embedded Systems Fourth Award

The CDC recommends that people wash their hands before and after touching their mask, and only touch it by the ear loops. However, as masks have become ubiquitous over the past year, it has…

A Novel Metal-Ligand Complex System Based on Uric Acid Ligands and Its Application on Gout Early Detection

Chemistry

This study reports two new complex compounds, Fe(H2O)4(UA) and Fe(UA)3 (UA=Uric Acid), with Fe as the central metal and uric acid or water as ligands. Both crystals were synthesized by the s…

A Novel Method for Identifying Kepler Exoplanet Habitability Using Python-Based Analysis of Standardized Transit Light Curves and Calculated Parameter Values

Physics and Astronomy Third Award

Much of the exoplanet transit data from the Kepler space telescope remains unanalyzed, especially in the search for habitability. To enable the investigation of Kepler exoplanets without the…