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Time to Bust the Mars Dust

Martian dust has an electrostatic charge which causes it to easily attract to moving objects, has the ability to invade machinery, and is hazardous to humans. With space exploration heading…

Tiny but Mighty: Small Scale Wind Power

Renewable energy offers potentially endless supplies of power. It's becoming vital to harness any of these sources in the most efficient way possible. Wind power is just one source of renewa…

Tissue Culture of the Hawaiian Papaya

The purpose of this study was to create a more efficient method of papaya production through the clonal propagation of hermaphroditic Hawaiian papaya. The current labor-intensive practice in…

To Drink or Not to Drink: The Lysis of Escherichia coli by Ultraviolet Light through a Makeshift Filtration System

The purpose of this research was to determine whether controlled amounts of Escherichia coli, K-12 could be killed by a makeshift water filtration system and UV irradiation. Twenty four nutr…

Towards Common Algorithm for Computation of Polygonal Numbers

Polygonal numbers are important for Number Theory and in modern recreational and educational mathematics . A Polygonal Number is a number represented as dots arranged in the shape of any reg…

Towards Next Generation Cancer Therapy: In vivo Dosimetry Studies of Boron Neutron Capture Therapy using Protist Models

Third Award

Boron Neutron Capture Therapy is an emerging cancer radiation therapy employing the use of high energy alpha particles produced in the reaction between thermalized neutrons and Boron-10 to s…

To What Extent Does the Cross Race Effect and Education Level Impact the Accuracy of Eyewitness Testimony, Year II

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Researchers have investigated the Cross Race Effect – own race bias- before; however, not to the specificity of eyewitness testimony as this experiment does. Based on our research, we believ…

Tracing Evolutionary Patterns in West Africa: A Phylogenetic Analysis of the HIV-1 and HIV-2 Strains

Third Award

The human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is responsible for causing the AIDS pandemic and killing millions of people around the world. This project seeks to shed light on the evolutionary r…

Tracking the Spread of Potato Late Blight (Phytopthora infestans) on a Regional Scale

Third Award

Potato late blight, spread by Phytopthora infestans, caused the Irish Potato Famine and still causes about $7 billion of annual crop damage. Tracking and predicting its spread remains proble…

Traffic Camera Dangerous Driver Detection (TCD3): Contextually Aware Heuristic Feature & OFA Density-Based Computer Vision with Movement Machine Learning Analysis of Live Streaming Traffic Camera Footage to Identify Anomalous & Dangerous Driving

Third Award

The goal of the TCD3 project is to identify anomalous and dangerous driving patterns from traffic camera feeds. Successful execution can improve road safety by assisting law enforcement catc…

Trajectory Reconstruction based on Inertial Navigation System

In an unknown area where the signal is shielded. Celestial Navigation System (CNS) will not apply. So the authors hope to design a navigation device which avoids delivery of external signal…

Transcription Factor VGLL4 as Breast Cancer Suppressor

Purpose of the Experiment Breast cancer is one of the most common malignant diseases. Of the five types of existing breast cancer, the basal like tumors we examined are the most aggressive a…

Trapping Phantoms into Robots: A New Control Method and Design for Transradial Myoelectric Prostheses and Induced Penfield's Map Cortical Remapping for Tactile Feedback

First Award

Nowadays it is possible to observe certain shortcomings in commercial transradial myoelectric prostheses regarding skill and haptic capabilities of natural human limb mimicry. This is due to…

Triangular Circle in a Square

Figures of constant width are figures able to rotate inside a square being tangent to all its sides simultaneously. The Reuleaux triangle is the most famous of these figures, being the base…

True-HEV: An Innovation for Hybrid Electric Engines

Third Award

In the modern world, fossil fuels have ignited an overwhelming concern for pollutants emitted through the burning of gasoline and other non-renewable resources in vehicles, industry, and oth…

Turning Probiotics into Antibiotics: Engineering a Broad-Spectrum Antibacterial Probiotic via Inclusion of Antimicrobial Peptide-Encoding DNA, Year Two

Second Award

Probiotics were engineered to deliver antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) that show promise as an alternative to antibiotics. This work involved designing a broad-spectrum Escherichia coli Nissle…

Turning the Red Planet Green: Study of Cyanobacteria/Algae Growth Kinetics Coupled with Hydroponics Applications for Terraforming and Settling on Mars

Third Award

This project examined how cyanobacteria/algae might exist under Martian simulated conditions, helping convert Mars’ most abundant gas CO2 into oxygen; thus paving the way for possible settle…

Two-Dimensional Mapping of Energy Transfer in Graphene/MoS2 Photodetectors

Fourth Award

Single-atom thick crystals have the potential to be used in smaller, faster electronics, replacing the silicon-based semiconductors found in current computers. In particular, graphene, a sin…

Two Transistor Ternary Random Access Memory

Fourth Award

The limitation of the speed of a computer is the access speed of its Random Access Memory (RAM). The growing disparity between CPU speed and RAM access times in computation is known as the m…

Ubiquitous Intelligent Platform (ONRUN Platform)

ONRUN Platform is trying to construct a human-like intelligent integrated body which can sense any changes taking place at any place at any time and make people know of them. And the integra…

Ultrasonic Levitation

The goal of this project was to create a standing acoustic wave at a high frequency in order to suspend small, lightweight object, such as Styrofoam, in midair. To do this the student was gi…

Ultrasound Remediation of Oil Contaminated Sand in Simulated Wet and Dry Sand Evironments

Oil spills critically damage the environment. Spilled oil can be removed from water, but oil contaminated sand is dumped into landfills. The oil from the contaminated sand can leach into gro…

Understanding Heat Transfer Mechanisms in Forest Fire Spread: Convection, Radiation, Fluid Dynamics, and Their Applications for Firefighter Protection in a High Temperature Fine Fuel Particle Environment

Second Award

The purpose of this experiment was to study the interactive effects of radiation, convection, and fluid vortices in a forest fire heat transfer environment. Applying these principles to fire…

Understanding Modern Diagnoses with Unknown Gene Plays a Critical Role in Inherited Thrombophilia

Protein C deficiency (PCD) is found in 1 out of 200 to 500 persons in the general global population. Inherited thrombophilia is characterized by an increased tendency of blood to clot in hum…

Understanding Parkinson's Disease: Basal ganglia Dysfunction's Role in the Visual Adaptation of Speech

Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a degenerative neurological disorder caused by loss of dopamine cells in the basal ganglia region of the brain. Not only does the loss of motor control affect lim…

Universal Biocomposition for the Enhancement of Oil Recovery from High-Temperature Oilfields (Case Study: Azerbaijan)

Existing exploitation methods of oilfields enable the extraction of only about half of oil resources. The goal of this project is to develop a biotechnology-based universal and environmental…

Universal Multi-functional Module for Digital Electronics

Few years ago we discovered “snap circuits” type of electronic constructor. But, unfortunately, those constructors didn't provide varied elements necessary for advanced tasks in digital elec…

Unmanned Explosive Disposal

Robots used by Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) Specialists in the United States Army specialize in transport and detonation of unexploded ordinance, improvised explosive devices, and weap…

Unravelling the Life of Javan lapwing (Vanellus macropterus) in East Java, Indonesia

Biochemistry

Javan Lapwing (Vanellus macropterus) is the endemic bird in the Java Island which had been declared extinct by the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) in 1994, but since 20…

Untangling the Mystery: The Link between Variations in the Oxytocin Receptor Gene and Trichotillomania

Biomedical Engineering Third Award

Trichotillomania is a psychological condition that has no known causes or cures. While this condition, which causes people to compulsively pull out their hair, is believed to be multifactori…