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Biomass to Biofuel: Production Enzymes

The purpose of this experiment was to indicate which enzymes and blends of enzymes extracted the most glucose from switch grass in ethanol production. Results were recorded on a spreadsheet…

Biomass to Biofuel: Using Mushrooms for the Production of Cellulosic Ethanol

Studies have shown that fungi can be very beneficial in the production of biofuels directly from agricultural waste. The purpose of this experiment is to determine if mushrooms can be used t…

Biomimetic Vortex Dredger

Third Award

Introduction: Dredging has stopped in the European Union as of result of the water framework directive (2000), global climate change is on the rise and floods are hitting communities very ha…

Biopsy-Implantable Chemical Sensor for Monitoring and Adjusting Cancer Treatments

In the battle against cancer (which kills nearly 8 million people worldwide each year) doctors use powerful weapons from their arsenal myriads, including various forms of Chemotherapy and Ra…

Black Ice Warning System through Optical Visualization of Road Condition for Unmanned Vehicle

‘Black Ice’ is a road condition that the frozen road surface looks normal. It is very hard to identify the road condition during night driving, which can lead to numerous traffic accidents.…

Black Silicon Inflatable Hybrid Solar Power, a 3rd Year Study

The purpose of this experiment was to create a solar power apparatus with improved efficiency by pairing black silicon solar submerged in circulating water with an inflatable solar concentra…

Blowing Smoke: Differential Effects on Oral Bacteria between Vaping and Cigarette Usage

Electronic cigarettes, or “e-cigarettes” are touted by cardiologists as an alternative to help traditional smokers quit smoking. In particular, e-cigarettes are marketed toward a young audie…

Blown Away: A Study of the Flight Characteristics of Conventional and Canard Wing Configurations

The wing configuration of an airplane affects the airplane’s flight characteristics. The purpose of the experiment was to compare the lift, drag, efficiency, and stall characteristics of a c…

Boosting MFC Biocatalyst Performance: A Novel Gene Identification and Consortia Engineering Approach

First Award

Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are devices that use bacteria to catalyze the conversion of waste into electricity. Although MFCs are a promising technology for sustainable energy production, fu…

Brace Yourself: A Novel Electronically Aided Leg Orthosis

First Award

Over 6 million individuals in the US alone who lack leg muscle function due to illnesses like multiple sclerosis, spinal injury or poliomyelitis require Knee-Ankle-Foot-Orthoses (KAFOs), dev…

Breakage of SET Nanowires and Determination of the Resistivity Constant for Multilayer Graphene

Third Award

A Single Electron Transistor (SET) is a device which conducts electrical current through a specified pathway and into a particle in order to study its quantum properties. Initial fabrication…

Break Divisors as Canonical Representatives for Divisor Classes on Complete Graphs: Applications to the Internet of Things

Network flow optimality on directed graphs is a central topic in graph theory and combinatorics. Given a complete graph G, we investigate the relationship between the score vectors of specia…

Break It, Stick It Together, Make a Triangle

In this project, we intented to find how many triangles that have integer edges we can form by seperating an integer lentgh into three parts. First, we studied for lengths 12,13 and 14 and w…

Bringing Electricity Access to Countries through Ocean Energy: BEACON -- Combatting Energy Poverty through the Development of a Novel Ocean Energy Probe

This research was intended to mitigate the energy poverty crisis through the development of a novel, economically feasible, and easily transportable current energy probe prototype. BEACON co…

Bringing Genetics to the Masses: The Development of a Low Cost DNA Extraction and Profiling Kit

Arising from discussions in school that strawberries grow on trees, I discovered that the Arbutus unedo (Strawberry Tree) grew natively in Ireland and mainland Europe but not in the United K…

Bubble Nesting Behavior Behind Local Wisdom of Rearing Siamese Fighting Fish by Utilizing Dry Leaves

Systems Software

Siamese fighting fish or Betta species is a splendidly colored fish commercially indigenous to Thailand. There are many betta species around the world, which results in great examples of bio…

Buffer Gas Cooling in Molecular Spectroscopy

To improve the molecular spectral resolution, the gas of interest must be cooled to reduce thermal noise. A method of buffer gas cooling is used, where a noble gas (buffer gas) cooled by a c…

Building Blood Vessel-like Structures using Stem Cell Derived Endothelial Cells

Cardiovascular diseases are leading cause of morbidity worldwide and a better understanding of their nature is crucially needed. Modelling disease with human blood vessel-like structures wou…

ByMySelf(BMS) Encryption Algorithm

Cyber Security is a matter that influences both big companies and individuals. Current services and software products do provide the user security to a certain extent with the help of encryp…

Caerin 1.9: A Possible Treatment for Alzheimer's Disease? Investigating the Effects of the Caerin 1.9 Peptide on Amyloid-beta Aggregation and Phagocytosis by Cultured Microglia

Third Award

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a global epidemic, affecting approximately 47 million people worldwide, increasing to an estimated 76 million by 2030. AD is the most common form of dementia and…

Caffeine and Memory: A Good Idea?

Biomedical Engineering

Last year, my partner and I experimented with the effect of caffeine on athletic performance. We designed three specific athletic tests to see if it did help. After we finished, we concluded…

Caffeine: The Effects on Physical and Mental Alertness

Caffeine is a white, crystalline, bitter alkaloid. Caffeine is used as a stimulant to the central nervous system and also acts as a diuretic. This stimulant can be man-made or found in veget…

Calculation of a Polygon's Area with a Generalized Delta Technique

The aim of the project is to calculate the area of any polygon which has n convex or concave sides and whose corner coordinates are given. Additionally, it aims to calculate the approximate…

Calibration Methodology for Vertical Inversion Atmospheric Measurement System

Air pollution must be measured so that its sources can be remediated. The AtmoSniffer provides measurements during pollution events. Its sensors are sensitive to five of the EPA primary poll…

Can Anaerobic Soil Disinfestation Create a Disease-Suppressive Soil to Phytophthora capsici and Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lycopersici?

Phytophthora capsici and Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lycopersici are plant pathogens that causes blight/fruit rot in important economically essential plants, such as eggplant, watermelon, and p…

Can APOBEC3B Be a Therapeutic Target for Breast Cancer?

In estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer, relapse into cancer can result from developed resistance to endocrine therapy such as Tamoxifen or chemotherapy such as 5-Fluorouracil. The purpo…

Can a Process Developed using FeCl2 and CMC Treated Brazilian Pepper Wood Fibers to Sequester Phosphate also Sequester Nitrates?

Previous research indicates CMC/FeCl2 treated Brazilian pepper wood fibers are effective at phosphate adsorption in a laboratory setting and for treating natural waters. Nitrate is recognize…

Can MRI Be Used as a Novel Technique to Diagnose Human Bacterial Blood Infections?

The purpose of this project was to evaluate whether the FS-T1 and FS-T2 MRI sequences can consistently detect and differentiate Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial species in human blo…

Can the Metastatic Potential of Cancer Be Predicted?: A Study of the Differential Expression Levels of N-Cadherin (CDH2) and P-Cadherin (CDH3) as Potential Biomarkers for Aggressive Bladder Cancers using Arsenic (As3+) and Cadmium (Cd2+) Transformed UROtsa Cells and UROspheres

Objective: Amplify N-Cadherin and P-Cadherin mRNA in cell monolayers and putative cancer stem cells by employing PCR to assess for gene regulation following heavy metal exposure. Prepare cel…

Can We Directly Measure Each Solute Concentration in Mixed Solution? A New Class of Polarimeter

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award

In this research, we present for the first time a new method to measure directly the concentration of different solutes present in a mixed solution in conjunction with a polarimeter. The key…