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The Iron Hand, Year Four

This project was developed to fabricate a low cost, effective forearm and hand prosthesis for amputees to assist them in daily activities. After researching and collaborating with Lubbock Ar…

The Last 3 Meters: Development of a Multi-Sensor Method for Safe Multicopter Landings

Applied Mechanics & Structures Honorable_mention Award

Objectives/Goals Develop a procedure based on novel hardware and software for a compact, low cost multi-sensor system to enable safe remote landings for autonomous multicopter operation. The…

The Magical Cream

Burns are one of the most common and serious injuries. While it is necessary to get medical treatment for severe burns, various remedies are used to cure patients who have simple burns. On t…

The Magical Stabilizer

Electronics & Electromagnetics

Objectives/Goals The project's primary objective is to find what threshold values at which the Schmitt trigger, a decision-making circuit, which turns on at a high threshold and stays locked…

The Magic of Yeast

Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology

Objectives/Goals The goal of this study is to see how different amounts of yeast affect the rising of bread dough. Methods/Materials Flour, salt, yeast and warm water,mixing bowl with units…

The Mechanical Separation of an Oil and Water Mixture

The purpose of this experiment was to find a way to take oil out of water by using filtration and density method. In the experiment two apparatuses were built, one for filtration and one for…

The Mechanisms of Glioblastoma Migration in a Bioengineered 3D Brain Model

Glioblastoma Multiforme is a lethal cancer originating from the glial cells of the brain. Current treatments are unsuccessful partly due to GBM’s rapid migration along white matter tracts an…

The Mixture of Pimenta racemosa and Cinnamomum camphora Extracts and the Effects on the Roots and Soil After Being Applied to Cynodon dactylon

Eliminating invasive grass to protect crops and plants with the use of synthetic herbicides has resulted in dangerous impacts on soils, human health and the environment. Therefore, it is nec…

The Molecular Basis of the Transdifferentiation of Embryonic Chick Limb Chondrogenic Precursors into a Beige Fate

Translational Medical Science Fourth Award

The discovery of lipid-burning beige fat may potentially have the ability to serve as a therapeutic option for obese patients. While the therapeutic implication of beige fat have been seen i…

The Most Superior Way to Conserve Water When Growing Grass

Environmental Engineering

Objectives/Goals This project's main goal ways to help deal with California's drought by finding ways for homeowners and farmers to use water for growing plants more efficiently. Methods/Mat…

The Mycoremediation of Polychlorinated Biphenyls Using Pleurotus ostreatus in a Soil-like Medium

The purpose of this experimentation is to determine 1) if the oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, can biodegrade polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) toxins when administered in a highly concent…

The Neodymium Wind Turbine

Generation of electricity through the Neodymium Wind Turbine In the early days, windmills were set up only in parts of Persia, Iraq and some historical contexts refer to England. These all,…

The New and Affordable Alternative! Will Turmeric Treat Powdery Mildew?

Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only)

Objectives/Goals Powdery Mildew is regarded as a pathogen that attacks plant leaf regions, potentially leading to its mortality. The purpose of this experiment was to test the effect of a tu…

The Nose Knows Smell, but Does It Know Taste?

Mammalian Biology

Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to observe how smell is involved in the ability to taste and which flavors are easier to identify with an impaired sense of smell. I believe…

The Novel Fabrication of a Superhydrophobic Glass Surface

A common issue with glass is that it fogs quickly, often causing accidents or simply acting as nuisances to our daily lives. If an effective and inexpensive anti-fog glass were invented, it…

The Nucleoporin 358 I585M Mutant Displays Non-Canonical Orientations in the C-Terminal Alpha Helices of the Alpha Helical Domain: Determining the Structure of Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy 1 Associated Mutant via X-Ray Crystallography

Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy (ANE) is a severe neurologic complication manifested primarily in young Asian children in the form of encephalopathy, seizures, coma, and symmetric brain les…

The Optimization of Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery of Melittin in a Colloidal Suspension as a Selective Method to Target HIV Structural Antigen p24

Translational Medical Science First Award

The HIV-1 strand of the human immunodeficiency virus is an evasive retrovirus due to its ability to invade a cell and use the outer membrane to multiply and invade other cells. The p24 capsi…

The Orbital Synchrotron Detector of High-Energy Electrons and Positrons

The project is dedicated to the method of high-energy electrons and positrons registration based on coordinate detection of synchrotron photons born in the Earth magnetosphere. The possibili…

The Other Side of Me: An Arduino Based Game for Bilateral Integration in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Second Award

Autism Spectrum Disorder affects one in sixty-eight children in the United States and awareness and coordination of the two sides of the body, known as mid-line awareness is a common issue.…

The Potency of Natural Mahogany Extract for Maintaining the Cleanliness of Rocks: A Case Study of Indonesian Temple Rocks

Temple is one of Indonesia’s cultural heritage sites inherited from past generations. The routine maintenance of temples is to remove lichen that frequently covers the surface of rocks. The…

The Potential of Plantain Wastes and Sargassum as Alternative Sources of Energy Production

It has been estimated that mined coal supplies almost 30% of energy use worldwide, and is responsible for 44% of global CO2 emissions. Renewable and cleaner sources of energy utilizing bioma…

The Power of Eta in Propulsive Engineering

The problem that faces every mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer, automobile manufacturer, airplane designer, and anyone working with engines in general is how to obtain more efficiency.…

The Power of Music

Behavioral & Social Sciences

Objectives/Goals To show that different genres of music will affect the boys' heart rate and blood pressures differently than the girls'. Methods/Materials Study materials include: headphone…

The Prediction of Fluid Intelligence based on Human Connectome Data using Deep Neural Networks

This work investigated whether Deep Neural Networks (DNN) can be used to predict fluid Intelligence, an innate intelligence, when weights or graph theoretical features of functional brain ne…

The Presence, Species Composition, Antibiotic Resistance, and Virulence Potential of Vibrio Bacteria from Commercially Purchased Florida Brown Shrimp, Farfantepenaeus aztecus

Vibrio is a large and diverse genus of marine bacteria, some of which are known to cause illness in humans. In particular, Vibrio vulnificus and Vibrio parahaemolyticus, common to brackish F…

The Production of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays via Fermi Acceleration in Relativistic Jets

Cosmic rays (CRs) composed of mostly protons have energies typically in the range of 10e8-10e13 eV and can plausibly be produced by active galactic nuclei (AGN) such as super massive black h…

The Prosperous Environments of Plants: Part 2

Plant Biology

Objectives/Goals My experiment was conducted to test whether plants need all elements of photosynthesis to survive and if plants can be revived after being deprived of one element. The goal…

The Psychology of Belief: The Placebo Effect vs. the Power of Suggestion in the Effectiveness of the Velox Energy Drink

Behavioral & Social Sciences

Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment is to determine whether a test subject given a placebo energy drink will have a similar rate of improvement (in running and reflex tests) to a…

The Race against Instabilities: Gravity vs. Carbopol - Who Will Win?

Fourth Award

3D printing is the emerging technology for making complex objects directly without assembling parts. Ink-jet printers at home allows one to print delicate 2D structures on paper and the visi…

Therapeutic Evaluation of Griseofulvin in a Mouse Model of Choroidal Neovascularization

Biomedical Engineering

Abnormal blood vessel growth, termed neovascularization, causes diseases such as wet-age related macular degeneration (wet AMD), leading to blindness. Wet AMD is a chronic eye disease that c…