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Wildfire Smoke Health Study: Historical Exposures Affect Long-Term Health

Translational Medical Science

Globally, anthropogenic climate change is causing an increase in wildfires, resulting in increased exposure to wildfire smoke. Current literature indicates exposure to a single wildfire smok…

Wired for Sustainability: Innovative Copper Infrastructure Design Solutions to Optimize Copper-Based Systems Without Performance Loss

Embedded Systems

I engineered prototypes to show how much copper can be saved by making a simple change with a one-wire system for cars. Copper mining could be reduced in aid of our planet during this ongoin…

Wisconsin/Upper Peninsula Michigan Reverse Transcriptase -Polymerase Chain Reaction Testing of Aedes triseriatus mosquitoes for Detection of La Crosse Virus in La Crosse County, Wisconsin

Aedes triseriatus is a tree-hole dwelling mosquito native to the United States and one of the most common species in La Crosse County, Wisconsin. A. triseriatus mosquitoes are the primary ve…

Wound Simulator: An in vitro Study of a Novel Biological Growth Factor Concentrate on Oral Mucositis

Translational Medical Science

Oral mucositis is a common and debilitating side effect of cancer treatment occurring in 90% of head and neck cancer patients undergoing radiation, 40% of patients with solid tumours receivi…

Xylazine, Fentanyl, and Synthetic Opioids as Emerging Threats in Oklahoma: A Qualitative Analysis of Perspectives on Harm Reduction and Overdose Response

Behavioral and Social Sciences

The United States is currently facing a polysubstance drug epidemic with the rise of emerging threats like fentanyl, xylazine, and other synthetic opioids. The evolving nature of this public…

Year 2: A Novel Biodegradable Sorbent for Oil Spills

Microbiology

In response to the escalating environmental concerns of oil spills, this project investigates banana bark as a potential oil sorbent that can naturally degrade the absorbed oil. This study e…

Year 3 Study- Applications of Antimicrobial Bioplastics Engineered from Invasive Algae and Waste Corn Cobs

Plastics in the market are produced from fossil sources, like natural gases and coal, which contribute largely to the increase of greenhouse gases and eventually worsen global warming. Thus,…

Year 5: Engineering a Novel IoT Trapping System With a Multiple Linear Regression Model Towards Eco-Friendly, High-Efficacy, Low-Cost Honey Bee Pest Treatment and Management

Animal Sciences Second Award

Honeybees are irreplaceable, performing 80% of global crop pollination. However, commercial US hives have been dying at alarming rates (~50% annually). Scientific literature identifies small…

Year II: Resistant Electromagnet Propulsion for Petroleum Removal Employing Biocompatible Magnetorheological Fluid in Oil Spill Applications

Environmental Engineering

Crude oil spills destroy shorelines, imbalance ecosystems, and have detrimental economic impacts. Though damage from these spills has been established in literature, there is limited researc…

Zenith Soar X-4: Autonomous Drone for Autonomous Drone for Disaster Relief and Detection

Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award

Background: Escalating natural disasters demand rapid, efficient, and safe response solutions. This project introduces a cost-effective autonomous drone system designed for disaster relief a…

ZooVera: Novel Application of Transfer Learning for Classifying Galaxy Morphologies in Simulated LSST Data

Physics and Astronomy

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is currently under construction and is set to conduct the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) when complete. The LSST will catalog the entire night s…

Zoro the Autonomous Rescue Dog: An Inexpensive Simultaneous Localization and Mapping System Running on a Mobile Quadruped for Rough Terrain Operation in Dangerous Scenarios

Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award

Zoro is a robotic quadruped meant to explore and map unknown or dangerous environments using many sensors such as an Xbox Kinect for IR depth sensing and mapping and encoders, touch sensors,…