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Resveratrol: A New Anti-Coronavirus Drug

Coronaviruses can cause fatal respiratory diseases in humans and are responsible for the most recent worldwide outbreak of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) that claimed more than…

Rethinking the Communist-era Suburb: A Way to Ecosocial Housing

One of the major problems in contemporary architecture is that most people are not satisfied with the environment of the monotonous concrete jungles left to us by the communist era. The goal…

Reusable Paper Preparation and Printing Device Design Based on the Ultraviolet Photochromic Principle

The traditional papermaking industry consumes enormous energy and causes serious pollution. In addition, a lot of paper is wasted. How can be the paper reusable? In this study, a new type of…

Reusing of Coconut Fiber and Used Vegetable Oil and the Application of TiO2 Nanotubes in Air Filter

The project arose from the assumption that the reuse of waste cooking oil is insufficient; oils have low solubility in aqueous medium, causing pollution and suffocation of aquatic life. I al…

Reversing Antibiotic-Resistance: Discovery, Evaluation, and Optimization of Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase Inhibitors

Second Award

Extended spectrum beta-lactamase producing (ESBL) bacteria are resistant to virtually all antibiotics, including carbapenems which are often considered the antibiotics of last resort, and ne…

Revolutionary Blood Test Tube 2.0

Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award

The newly designed test tube presented in this abstract would improve on the design of blood test tubes commonly used by hospitals, clinics, and both research and commercial laboratories all…

Revolutionizing Bioethanol Production: Genetic Engineering of S. cerevisiae for the Single Step Conversion of Biomass to Bioethanol

The goal of this research was to clone both the lacc2 gene and the cbhI gene from Pleurotus ostreatus into the common yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The Lacc2 coding sequence is 1.57 kbp l…

Revolutionizing Energy Storage with Supercapacitors and Metal Organic Frameworks

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

Although the great porosity of metal organic frameworks (MOF) has been used to achieve excellent gas adsorptive properties, MOFs still largely remain unexplored for electrochemical energy st…

Ribosomal Ribonucleic Acid Targeting using Small Ribonucleic Acid as a Potential Antimicrobial

Translational Medical Science

Bacteria small ribonucleic acids (sRNAs) are important cell regulators. Bacterial cells naturally take up nucleic acids in order to better regulate functions. However, bacterial cells that a…

Rice Straw Phytolith to enhance CO2 capture: Ideas for sustainable management of rice straw and reduction of greenhouse gases from paddy soils

Third Award

Silicate weathering processes have immobilized CO2, contributing to the regulation of greenhouse gas effects. Due to the similarity between composition of silicate and phytolith (an amorphou…

Riding On Air: How a Hovercraft Hovers

Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)

Objectives/Goals Our objective/goals was, if a certain amount of air (depending on the weight of the objects being placed on it) is let into the hovercraft then the hovercraft will hover. Me…

RightLoad: Cast Load Monitoring System to Speed Up Recovery

Project's Goals: During the healing process of a patient with a broken leg the doctor instructs him to put a certain load on his leg. This load is translated by the doctor to weight. The pur…

Ring Formation of 10199 Chariklo through the Accretion of a Debris Disk

10199 Chariklo, a centaur and minor planet, is the smallest identified ringed object within the Solar System following the identification of a ring system in 2013. The relatively low mass of…

Riparian Disturbance & Remote Sensing Technology: A Novel Method to Identify Vulnerabilities within Urban Areas of the Willamette River Basin

Through the application of remote sensing technology and the utilization of ArcGIS mapping software, this study validates the importance of riparian vegetation, and extends this knowledge fu…

Robot Arm Complement

The objective of the “Robot Arm Complement” project is to improve the production in manipulation of light objects process, reducing the time in manufacturing processes. The robot arm can man…

Role of Integrin Signaling Pathways Driving the Collective Migration of Human Keratinocytes

Chronic wounds are a major and growing healthcare issue in American society. In chronic wounds, decreased rates of keratinocyte migration and proliferation cause wounds to heal abnormally. T…

Role of Sirt1 during Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Proliferation in Cerebellar White Matter after Hypoxia

Translational Medical Science Second Award

Preterm infants are at a high risk of developing diffuse white matter injury (DWMI) after chronic hypoxia. DWMI is a leading cause of permanent neurodevelopmental disabilities and has been l…

Rolling Resistance: Effects of Natural vs. Artificial Turf and High vs. Low Inflation on Rolling Soccer Balls

Physics & Astronomy

Objectives/Goals Soccer balls appear to move faster and further on artificial turf surfaces than on natural grass fields. Inflation seems to affect how far and fast balls go. This experiment…

Rotating Fluid in Paraboloidal Tank Tuned Liquid Damper as an Effective Vibration Absorber

Fourth Award

In this study, I demonstrate the tuned liquid dampers (TLD) consist of paraboloidal tanks equipped with flow-guiding vanes, which can effectively mitigate the vibration of structure induced…

Rothmund-Thomson Syndrome Helicase and Its DNA Binding Preferences

Fourth Award

Our DNA is constantly exposed to mutagens generating damage in the polynucleotide chain. If not repaired, these DNA lesions can lead to genomic instability and potentially to cancer. Fortuna…

Runaway Stars: Looking for Variability in Hypervelocity Star Candidates

My hypothesis is that a little less than 10% of hypervelocity stars (HVSs) will be found in the asymptotic giant branch (AGB). If HVS candidates are observed over a longer period of time, I…

Running on Water: Electron Superhighway for Optimization of Real-Time Production of H2 and O2

Chemistry Fourth Award

Objectives/Goals In order to fix the problem of climate change and increasing CO2 levels, we have to find a different fuel source to power our cars and our homes. Hydrogen is a promising can…

Safecopter: Developing a Collision Avoidance System Based on an Array of Time-of-Flight 3D Cameras

Third Award

Multicopters have a wide range of applications from surveillance to package delivery and medical support. Although growing in popularity, they are not yet used on an industrial scale for saf…

Safecopter: Developing a Collision Avoidance System Based on an Array of Time-of-Flight 3D Cameras

Mathematics & Computer Science

Objectives/Goals Multicopters have a wide range of applications from surveillance to package delivery and medical support. Although growing in popularity, they are not used yet on an industr…

Safe Disposal of Household Mercury Containing Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs

Compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs are not disposed in an environmentally safe manner. The most serious threat to the environment is the toxic mercury vapour contained within CFL bulbs wh…

Safe Road with Losing Consciousness

Each year nearly 1.2 million people die as a result of road crashes. Driving while fatigued, falling asleep and losing of consciousness cause many car accidents. Approximately 3-10% of patie…

Salinity Stress on Lycopersicon esculentum Associated with Drought Affected Ground Water

Environmental Science Third Award

Objectives/Goals During times of drought the water table drops due to excessive groundwater pumping; this leads to an increase in water salinity. This study is to determine what level of sal…

Saliva the Samurai: The Effect of Human Saliva on Bacterial/Fungal Skin Diseases: An Effective/Eco-Friendly Alternative

Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only) First Award

Objectives/Goals The emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a global threat. Each year in the US alone, approximately 23,000 people die as a result of antibiotic-resistant bacterial i…

Salt Water Desalination

Environmental Engineering

Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to desalinate three different types of salt water by thermal distillation, in order to create fresh water and dry salt as the end products.…

Sand Free Device

The problem recognized was the huge amounts of dust that accumulate on solar panels and glass fronts of shops, stores and hotels etc, during sandstorms in particular, as well as the daily bu…