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A Multimodal Late-Fusion of Weather Data and Satellite Imagery for Wildfire Prediction

Environmental Engineering

Early wildfire detection and prediction systems based on machine learning have typically relied on a single type of data, either meteorological data or satellite imagery, limiting their accu…

CYSF · 2026

A Multimodal Neuroimaging and Omics approach for Rational Dual Therapeutic Design in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Research and finding patterns in omics expression and brain anatomy to design an alternative therapeutic approach for ALS, aiming to create a synergistic and more targeted approach than curr…

CWSF · 2026

A Multi-Omic “Digital Embryo” Framework to Model Early Human Preimplantation Development In Silico

Disease & Illness Gold Medal

Nearly 50% of IVF embryos arrest before they become viable pregnancies, and the molecular mechanisms causing this failure remain poorly understood. The Digital Embryo is the first multi-omic…

A Multi-Omic “Digital Embryo” Framework to Model Early Human Preimplantation Development In Silico

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Nearly 50% of human IVF embryos arrest before reaching the blastocyst stage, yet the molecular mechanisms causing this failure remain poorly understood. Current literature examines omics in…

A Multi-Omics and Machine Learning Approach for Identifying Potential Salivary Biomarkers of and Treating Major Depressive Disorder

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) negatively affects over 300 million people worldwide as the leading cause of disability, and suicide. Yet, current biomarkers fail to capture its biological h…

A Multi-Stage Computational Pipeline for Designing Therapeutic Peptides Against Alpha-Synuclein Aggregation, Utilizing a Geometry-Aware Machine Learning Model Trained on ProLIF Data

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Parkinson's disease is the world's most rapidly growing neurodegenerative disease, and the cause is largely attributed to the misfolding of a protein in the brain known as alpha-synuclein (a…

A Multi-Target Chronopharmacotherapy for the Inhibition and Clearance of Toxic Proteins in Alzheimer's Disease

Translational Medical Science

Purpose: About 7.2 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's Disease (AD), with the number expected to to double by 2060. Currently used drugs for AD only reduce disease symptoms and mar…

An AI-Controlled Underwater Floating Robot for Photochemical Treatment of Cyanide-Contaminated Industrial Wastewaters

Chemistry

Industrial wastewaters from gold mining and other industries often contain highly toxic cyanide-based compounds that threaten ecosystems and human health. This project bibliographically inve…

An AI-Guided Approach to Tuning Block Copolymer Nanostructures Through Homopolymer Incorporation for Advancing Filtration and Energy Storage Applications

Materials Science

Many advanced technologies, from water purification membranes to battery electrolytes, rely on block copolymers (BCPs) because they can self-assemble into well-defined nanoscale morphologies…

Analysis of Candidate Dormant Binary Black Hole Systems Using Asteroseismology of Red Giants

Physics and Astronomy

Dormant black holes (BHs) are believed to be among the most common types of BHs in the Milky Way; despite this, dormant BHs remain largely unstudied due to limitations of current methods of…

Analysis of MCT2 as a Selective Therapeutic Target in Cancer Metabolism

Biochemistry

The main feature of cancer is that the cell's normal metabolic process has changed to allow for uncontrolled growth. Monocarboxylate transporter 2 (MCT2, encoded by SLC16A7) is responsible f…

Analysis of Nanomaterial-Antibiotic Complexes to Limit Antibiotic Resistance

Materials Science

Antimicrobial resistance is expanding at an alarming rate, becoming the greatest global challenge of the 21st century with bacteria developing resistance to some of the best antibiotics and…

Analysis of the Interaction Between Bacterium Nissle 1917 and L-Dopa to Improve Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease

Microbiology

Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients primarily receive the drug L-Dopa to replenish the natural stores of dopamine in the body to reduce PD symptoms (Nagatsu 2009). L-Dopa is structurally simil…

Analyzing Flavonoid-Induced Apoptosis in Colon Cancer Cells With and Without Functional p53

Cellular and Molecular Biology

Flavonoids, a subclass of polyphenols, are known for their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, potentially reducing the risk of cancer. This experiment tested the ability of five s…

CYSF · 2026

Analyzing Space Weather Risk: Correlation Between Sunspot Activity and Coronal Mass Ejections

A Coronal Mass Ejection is a release of plasma from the Sun, due to magnetic fields. This causes disruption to satellites, hindering communication. This project aims to study CME data from s…

Analyzing the Effectiveness of Expansion Techniques for Meningeal Tissue

Biomedical Engineering

Expansion Microscopy (ExM) enhances spatial resolution by physically enlarging tissues, enabling detailed visualization without requiring advanced microscopy systems. ExM has proven effectiv…

CYSF · 2026

Analyzing the effects of calcium and collagen on bone strength

we will research what effect does calcium and collagen have on bone structure we will do three tests co-mpression,tension and bending

CYSF · 2026

Analyzing the Effects of Temperature, pH and Inhibitors on Catalase Activity and Stability for Food Preservation and Industrial Applications

This project studies how catalase, an enzyme which catalyzes the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide, responds to pH, different temperatures, and natural inhibitors. Potato extract is used as…

Analyzing the Impact of Various 3D Printed Infill Patterns on the Tensile Strength of a 3D Print Relative to Its Weight and Orientation

Physics and Astronomy

3D printing has the ability to control the internal structure of a product. Published research has not determined the strength-to-weight ratio of infill patterns. The isotropy of infill patt…

Analyzing the Mycorrhizae of Non-Native and Native Hawaiian Trees

Plant Sciences

Approximately 90% of plants have a mutualistic symbiosis with soil fungi, known as a mycorrhizal relationship. The plants and fungi exchange nutrients through the plant's roots. Mycorrhizae…

An Analysis of Acute and Chronic Heat Stress to Caenorhabditis elegans’ Motility, Fertility, and Protein Aggregation

Animal Sciences

Changes in temperature are known to have molecular effects on biological mechanisms. It has been found that when exposed to heat stress, Caenorhabditis elegans lose fertility and a general d…

An Analysis of Mizuna (Brassica rapa var. Nipposinica) Grown to Maturity in a Microgravity Environment

Plant Sciences

Before plants can be used as a food source for interplanetary missions, research must be conducted to determine the effects of microgravity on the growth of plants. This experiment was condu…

A Nano-Chitin and HACC Multilayer System for Remediating Severely Eutrophic Waters via Oxygenation, Bacterial Inhibition, and Nutrient Stabilization

Microbiology

Restoring severely eutrophic waters, especially in hardened urban river channels, is challenging and costly due to algal blooms, turbidity, microbial overgrowth, oxygen depletion, and nutrie…

CWSF · 2026

An Attractive Solution: An Innovative Way to Clean Up Oil Spills

Environment & Climate Change

An Attractive Solution: An innovative way to clean up oil spills How can we clean up oil spills with nano technology? Using small scale experiments with ferro fluid, testing was done to see…

CWSF · 2026

An Attractive Solution: Improving the Resilience of White Birch through Magnetic Field Application

Natural Resources Bronze Medal

With the advance of climate change comes added stresses to forests such as increased risk of forest fires due to heat and drought, as well as stresses like increased salt and oxidative stres…

An Automated Multimodal-Stimuli Integrated Trichogramma Rearing and Release Innovation With Artificial Oviposition-Targeted Eggs to Optimize Pest Parasitization

Animal Sciences

Global warming has become a major problem for organic agriculture, as changes in environmental conditions reduce the parasitization rate of Trichogramma, limiting the use and mass rearing of…

An Autonomous Ambient Temperature Detection and Cooling System Designed for Overheating Vehicles

Embedded Systems

Every year, on average, 37 children die from being left in vehicles out in the heat. This is a fatal mistake that can be avoided with a simple temperature detection and cooling system. The r…

CWSF · 2026

An Autonomous Sail-Powered System for Non-Invasive Multimodal Marine Monitoring

Natural Resources Gold Medal

Much of the ocean remains unmonitored, allowing harmful human activities such as illegal fishing to drive marine ecosystem collapse. To address this, an autonomous, sail-powered trimaran was…

CWSF · 2026

An Efficient AI-Driven Tool for Pediatric Pneumonia Detection

Disease & Illness Bronze Medal

Pediatric Pneumonia is the leading infectious cause of death for children worldwide [1], largely due to slow or incorrect diagnosis [2]. Even with advancements in machine learning, modern AI…

An Efficient NDVI-Based NARX Machine Learning Model for Predicting Soil Moisture in Leafy Vegetable (Basella alba) for Precision Irrigation

Plant Sciences

Leafy vegetables like Malabar spinach require optimal soil moisture (SM) to ensure steady physiological activity, improved nutrient uptake, and higher leaf yield. Excessive water application…