Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Supercapacitors are a promising candidate for the electric vehicle system due to their inherent fast charging and high-current/temperature tolerance capabilities. However, commercial superca…
Embedded Systems
While we often take the Internet for granted, millions of citizens in the US - and billions worldwide - still do not have access to high-speed broadband internet. In order to try to remediat…
Physics and Astronomy
The term “habitable exoplanets” is currently used to describe exoplanets that are in the habitable zone, areas around a star with the right conditions to support liquid water. This project a…
Engineering Mechanics
Over the past decade the U.S. Military's fighter jets have improved in engine performance, aerodynamics, avionics, and overall aircraft structure, which enables the F-22 to reach speeds high…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this project is to compare a K-Nearest-Neighbor (KNN) algorithm with an Artificial-Neural-Network (ANN) in terms of their accuracy when detecting humans by use of thermal imag…
Biomedical Engineering
Rapid, accurate, and non-invasive assessment of tissue viability remains a frontier of medical research. For example, a large proportion of burn wounds are those of partial, indeterminate th…
Translational Medical Science
Hepatoblastoma is the most common liver tumor in children. Those with relapsed or metastatic disease continue to have a poor prognosis and require novel therapies to improve outcomes. PIM ki…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
There have been reports/experiments showing the greater wax moth (Galleria melonella) can decompose polyethylene. There are two species of wax moth and the lack of attention to the lesser wa…
Biomedical Engineering
In recent years, the number of concussions sustained while playing sports has skyrocketed from 1.6 million to an alarming 3.8 million concussions per year. While the increase in knowledge of…
Physics and Astronomy
In this project, a procedure for building an x-ray generator was developed and tested. This procedure uses inexpensive or common materials (around $200 total) for the x-ray tube and power so…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Pathfinding algorithms are used for autonomous robots in disaster relief/recovery, but one issue is that they cannot function properly unless the map information is accurate. The first part…
Biochemistry
Development of a Method Towards the Metabolic Monitoring of TCA Cycle Compounds Observed in Rat Urine Using NMR Spectroscopy Sai Sumedha Bobba James Clemens High School, Madison, Alabama, Un…
Energy: Chemical
As devices increase in needs for alternative energy source other than batteries, supercapacitors have been in development with advanced materials. The objective of the research was to make a…
Physics and Astronomy
Gravity induced loss of consciousness, better known as G-LOC , occurs when excessive gravitational forces are applied to the body resulting in decreased intracerebral blood flow. Even after…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
Due to global threats of rapidly increasing antimicrobial resistance(AMR),and mortality and morbidity due to bacterial pathogens,discovery and implementation of solutions to AMR such as nove…
Chemistry
Purpose: The leading causes of death globally stems from cardiovascular diseases such as stroke and heart failure, which both involve atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis refers to the buildup o…
Embedded Systems
With the increasing amount of cognitive benefits found to help musicians, it has become increasingly imperative to begin playing music. However, aspiring musicians often have trouble pinpoin…
Physics and Astronomy
Because of strong absorption of middle infrared (mid-IR) light by organic molecules in human tissue, mid-IR lasers have applications including laser surgery, tissue ablation, non-invasive me…
Biochemistry
Advances in the mobility of bone marrow transplants have benefited many different types of people from all aspects of the socioeconomic ladder. This project demonstrates the process of cryop…
Biochemistry
Acyclovir is an antiviral drug used in the treatment of Herpes Labialis, a difficult to treat viral infection affecting over 140 million people worldwide. Traditionally, administration of Ac…
Microbiology
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Biomedical and Health Sciences
The research question of this experiment is to determine out of pomegranate juice, orange juice, pineapple juice, and coconut milk, which natural substance will best kill/inhibit the growth…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC) are aggressive tumors with high recurrence rates and poor patient survival. Although HNSCCs only account for 3% of cancers in the United States…
Microbiology
Last year, we made a conclusion that ice-nucleating bacteria could be an alternative to the chemicals that are sprayed in the atmosphere during cloud-seeding. However, we knew that some ice-…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
On regional and global levels, pollution from highways and industrial activities are major sources of environmental damage. Phytoremediation is the process of rehabilitating the quality of s…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to determine the impact of high-heeled footwear on balance and fall risk as well as to conduct a survey to ascertain whether people believe high heels make…
Embedded Systems
Noise proliferates our increasingly developing environment in the form of noise pollution. Because noise can both negatively influence the quality of signals as well as the health of individ…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The human knees are the largest and the most complex joints in the human body. However due to its actives and the way it is formed, it is also the most injured joint with over 6 million pati…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to discover if caffeine or sugar had an effect on a student's ability to focus, and if so, what this effect was. This would help students develop better st…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether coniferous or deciduous trees remove more carbon dioxide from the air per year (kg/year) to look into the factors of reducing global w…