Biomedical and Health Sciences
This investigation came to development because patients with diabetes type 2, suffer various side effects due to insulin injection and prescribed drugs by their specialized doctors. The purp…
Energy: Chemical
Energy storage devices that can deliver high powers have many applications, but they bring out time and economic problems. Here we report an alternative approach of a new breakthrough “The P…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives When in a communal space, there is no control over the temperature. Having a portable device that can heat or cool can help those that are temperature sensitive have their own Por…
Plant Biology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives The objective of my experiment was to determine if using Arbuscualr Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) would positively benefit and sustain plants grown in sodium-stressed soil as compared t…
Animal Sciences (inferred)
Ecological light pollution implicates physiological disruption to individual organisms and the ecosystem structure as a whole particularly with the involvement of keystone species. The major…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Hypertension has been considered a pandemic disease affecting different age populations. About 75 million American adults (32%) have hypertension. Having hypertension puts you at a risk for…
Plant Biology
Objectives The purpose of this project was to find the major cause of the growth differences between the two lemon trees in my backyard. Methods I used the Carolina Physical and Chemical Pro…
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives As demand increases for energy, wind turbines have become an intriguing source of electricity around the world. However, wind turbines face many challenges including wind speeds i…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Ixodes scapularis (black-legged ticks) infected with Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, is endemic throughout the upper Midwest. Over the most recent years, the numbe…
Animal Sciences (inferred)
This project was conducted in Merrick County, Nebraska, to compare differences in prevalence of Baylisascaris procyonis (raccoon roundworm) in areas in close proximity to human dwellings and…
Animal Sciences
Cryptosporidiosis is a disease caused by a parasite, Cryptosporidium, often found in neonatal calves. Roughly 57% of scours in young calves is caused by Cryptosporidium. Currently there is n…
Physics and Astronomy
Blazhko effect which is a long-period modulation in amplitude and period of light variations associated with RR Lyrae stars, has bothered several generations of astrophysicists since it was…
Translational Medical Science
When a cardiac injury occurs as a result of hemolysis, the heart suffers from an intramyocardial hemorrhage and left ventricular remodeling. Studies are showing that the result of this damag…
Environmental Engineering
Over a year ago now I asked myself a question: did an affordable, efficient solution for measuring soil condition exist in the marketplace? Acting on my curiousity I performed some research,…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The public perception on meat labeling and their knowledge of USDA meat labels were reviewed through a survey. This project was designed to compare the difference between actual knowledge an…
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that is thought to be responsible for mood in humans and other multicellular organisms. Many people take prescription drugs that are thought to increase level…
Biomedical Engineering
Over 25 million Americans are affected by stroke or peripheral neuropathy, a disease that degrades motor and sensory nerve control. Affected individuals often find it very difficult to perfo…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives The World Health Organization (WHO) finds that 110 million people die every year across the world as a direct result of STRESS. That is seven people in every 2 seconds. Thus, the…
Mathematics (inferred)
Saito (1988) establishes a relationship between two invariants associated with a smooth projective curve, the conductor and discriminant. Saito defined the conductor of an arbitrary scheme o…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives This experiment was performed to investigate whether the economic status of young adults affect a tendency to lie for personal gain, or for the benefits of others. A preliminary s…
Biomedical Engineering
A port-a-cath (port) is used to administer medications. A port includes an access target (port) and an artificial vein (catheter) that allows medical professionals to easily inject medicatio…
Chemistry
After investigating and selecting the different plastics considering that most plastics are frequently used, we begin to prepare the samples using the following recognition criteria to class…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
HVAC operation constitutes 45-55% of house energy, due to inefficient conventional thermostats. The project's goal is creating a cloud-based collaborative learning thermostat that optimizes…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The laws of thermodynamics and Stokes’ Law with Cunningham Slip Correction Factor are used to support an updated atmospheric climate change model to include the effect of wildfire smoke ash…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives At any given moment there are approximately 660,000 people on the phone behind the wheel, and also 35% of teenagers text and drive even though they know it is dangerous. This is c…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
Objectives So the objective of this project is to test the effect of BA 42 and lead on neuronal cells and the astrocytes cells. Astrocytes are the most abundant glial cells and are vital for…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder which affects around 1 in every 10,000 people. This autosomal dominant genetic disorder is caused by an expansion of the polyg…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, or nAChRs, form the basis of nicotine addiction. The ALPHA4BETA2ALPHA5 nAChR is the focus of this study. When an individual uses, either a cigarette or an…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Second Award
Objectives It has been shown that granulocyte colony stimulating factor receptor expressing, or CD114-expressing cancer cells act like cancer stem cells in neuroblastoma and melanoma. I test…
Microbiology
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is an infectious disease characterized by flu-like symptoms that can progress rapidly to a fatal respiratory disease. HPS is caused by Sin Nombre Virus (S…