Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The goal of the research was to understand the processes going on under high voltage electrolysis and to bring attention to the possible applications of the new scientific field. Electrolysi…
The research conducted focused on developing a method to perform a semi-quantitative platelet count on abnormal blood smears (Hemaglobinopathy, or sickle cell anemia, and Elevated Mean Plate…
Second Award
Drug resistant malarial parasites and inability to monitor patient response to treatment kill nearly a million people every year. Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is a highly sensit…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The world we live in is surrounded by a layer of contaminated grime and toxic agents which slowly but surely chip away at our immune system. These pollutants hold us back from a successful a…
Fourth Award
Coxa Saltans, a condition of the hip, comes in three forms that manipulate a snap, but the contributing factors vary. Internal Coxa Saltans, on which this research focuses, occurs when the i…
Translational Medical Science
Polymers that form polymer-DNA complexes (polyplexes) have been established to be safer and more effective -without causing death to harmless cells- than Chemotherapy and viral-mediated tran…
The project consisted in the design and creation of a solar water heater to basis of polymers, taking advantage of the urban and rural solid waste generated in the community of Texmelucan. T…
Fourth Award
Biopolymers are all those polymers that are naturally produced such as starch and cellulose. And they may be assimilated by various biodegradable species without having a toxic effect on the…
The purpose of this experiment was to investigate which homemade biogas generator was the best one for daily use in a household. Five different designs of biogas generators were built based…
Ultrasound targeted microbubble destruction (UTMD) has become a widely researched method of drug delivery. This method utilizes the behavior of gas filled microbubbles in response to targete…
Electromagnetic induction says that when magnetic flux changes through a closed contour, an electric field will be inducted. The magnetic flux changes if the contour and the magnet move rela…
Across the world, 26 000 people per year become limb deficient. For those children that live in developing countries where there is little financial support, an industrial prosthetic hand co…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Third Award
Platinum-based drugs are irreplaceable in cancer chemotherapy, including three globally approved generations: cisplatin, carboplatin and oxaliplatin, however, these drugs still have undesira…
Tomato is the mostly produced vegetable both in Turkey and in the World. Almost half of the greenhouse grown tomatoes in Turkey are produced in out of season, therefore, tomatoes can be deli…
Biomedical Engineering
The objective of this study was to control and normalize factors linked to death of brain neurons during Alzheimer’s disease (AD) using maximum safe dosages of multi-vitamins and minerals (M…
Fourth Award
The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of different tannin concentrations on potato cyst nematode Globodera pallida in in vitro and in vivo experiments and then determine phytotoxic…
The loss of a hand is severely traumatic both emotionally and physically. Prosthetic's are devices that can help restore some of the functionality to the user. However, current prosthetic's…
Systems Software
Developing countries have always faced poverty as the main national issue, most of their citizens are peasants around the world are living in poverty. Prior studies show two factors which ca…
Fossil power plants, nuclear power plants, fracking - all those processes are ways to produce electricity or natural gas. They are known for being really dangerous for our environment. So th…
High altitude balloon research conducted by universities and government research teams like NOAA and the EPA are expensive projects. The total equipment value for an average flight exceeds $…
Predictable or Chaotic: Orbits vs. Weather investigates the predictability of planetary and weather systems. In order to do this, a computer code was written to model each system. A simple a…
First Award
A non-invasive risk-analysis tool was developed for assessing HPV-associated oropharyngeal cancer using oral-rinse samples. The idea for this tool came from work that showed evidence of abno…
Despite the widely known health risks of obesity, there is no accurate and reliable way to predict if an individual will become obese in the future. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are cap…
The purpose of my project is to predict the progression of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) by creating a computer aided diagnosis (CAD) system using image features from an MRI. I hypothesized that I…
Third Award
Synergistic drug combinations for cancer have the potential to save millions of lives each year through lowering toxicity, limiting side effects, and drastically increasing the efficacy of t…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Five totally new compounds containing NCN amidinato ligand were synthetized in their very pure form. Compounds were prepared applying two methods: 1) a direct nucleophilic addition of metal…
The objective of this project was the design, construction, testing and evaluation of a mechanism to harvest pressure energy from automotive traffic and using it to generate electricity. The…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Does pretreating stains with various detergents help? How do different detergents affect different stains? For example how to get rid of grass stains? In everyday life we often find ourselve…
Every year, severe burns kill approximately 265,000 people due to opportunistic infection from normal flora, such as Staphylococcus epidermidis. This research studies the efficacy of using f…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Second Award
Approximately 80-90% of Americans develop allergic reactions upon contact with poison oak or poison ivy. The allergen in both of these plants is a molecule known as urushiol, which binds to…