Embedded Systems
Amidst the dramatic expansion of online shopping and deliveries, wasted cardboard packaging has become a major challenge in modern-day society. In this research, an innovative approach to th…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Within forest ecosystems, there is a need to collect real-time data on insect outbreaks, disease outbreaks, wildfires, pollution, and climate change impacts. Engineers have used systems, suc…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Second Award
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) poses significant health risks, especially to infants under six months and adults over 65. The objective of this study is to deepen the understanding of str…
Materials Science
Detrimental environmental effects of packaging waste have given rise to a shift towards eco-friendly packaging materials. A recent alternative employed are biopolymer nanocomposites, due to…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Overwhelming research shows microplastics are found in the environment, as well as in the majority of American fish, water, and even meats. While its long-term effects on humans and environm…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus[1], and its secondary bacterial and fungal infections [2-5] have created an urgent need for a new, Small Biological Sampling Volume Diagn…
Plant Sciences
There are 500,000 abandoned mine sites in the United States. Mine tailings cause land to remain un-vegetated for decades, characterized by low pH, high salinity, low organic matter, and effl…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Fourth Award
My project explores a novel design of interlocking transformative drones that drastically increases the number of potential applications of drone swarms. With my design, drones in a swarm ca…
Animal Sciences
Despite the ubiquity of food preservatives in modern-day cuisine, the holistic range of their effects has yet to be adequately explored. The purpose of this experiment is to examine whether…
Environmental Engineering
Access to clean water is one of our most basic human needs, and unsafe drinking water is one of the world's largest health and environmental problems. In 2022, 2.2 billion people globally st…
Chemistry
Perovskite nanocrystals carry significant promise in the field of intracellular sensing. When in proximity with radiolabeled analytes, fluorescent nanoparticles emit photoluminescent signatu…
Plant Sciences
Over the years, around 20% to 40% of global crop production has been lost because of pests and bioactivity. At the same time, the weed barriers had caused the soil to be unsuitable for plant…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The intestines are a crucial part of the digestive system, aiding in digestion and nutrient absorption. They feature a columnar barrier of intestinal epithelial cells, called the intestinal…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Although previous research has studied the subfields of cancer genomics and population genetics separately, they have rarely merged. This study combines the knowledge of mutational signature…
Systems Software
First Award
Mid-Circuit Measurements (MCMs) are a key component in many quantum information algorithms. As such, ways to characterize their performance are of great interest. Specifically, it is importa…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Ocean acidification is the evil twin of global warming! When carbon dioxide is absorbed by the ocean, it shifts the pH of the water to neutral. This phenomenon leads to detrimental damage to…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
Over the last few decades, many breast cancer patients have become disease-free due to the advancements in detection, diagnosis, and treatment. However, cancer can come back for almost 30% o…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
According to the CDC, approximately 37.3 million people have diabetes mellitus in the US. Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a microvascular eye complication associated with diabetes and is the le…
Chemistry
In 2021, 400 million megatons of shrimp were produced. The average American consumes 4 lbs. of shrimp annually. However, despite the large consumption, there are no available methods to test…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Aquaponics is a food production system that combines the growing of plants with raising fish. The purpose of my Automatic Aquaponics engineering project is to provide a way for people to gro…
Chemistry
The textile industry is responsible for producing 20% of all water pollution.With Methylene Blue (MB) acting as the most commonly used basic dye in the textile industry, its usage is problem…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The purpose of this experiment was to determine which octane rating of fuel burned longest. My hypothesis was that if I tested two different octane ratings from two different gas stations wi…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics have been spreading throughout the environment, are being incorporated into food webs and are even found in humans. It is critical that there is a system to remove microplastic…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Melanoma cancer is a deadly disease that hundreds of thousands of people are diagnosed with each year and has little treatment success using current methods. One potential method is the tran…
Plant Sciences
The world is facing a crisis as the ozone layer thins and allows more UV rays to pass through. Specifically, as of 2019, all UVC (? = 100-280 nm) is absorbed by Earth’s atmosphere, and the U…
Biochemistry
Enzymes, known informally as the workhorses of the cell, are proteins that quicken chemical reactions. Traditional research on improving enzyme efficiency focuses on the active site or bindi…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Floods kills 6,000 people annually and is especially dangerous for the region of Southeast Asia, where 1.24 billion people are at risk of flooding. Flood mapping often uses ground measures,…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Yield forecasting is critical for ensuring food security, especially given the rise of extreme weather events. However, the USDA NASS only provides state-level forecasts by conducting costly…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Second Award
Obesity is a severe health problem predicted to affect one in two U.S. adults by 2030. Leptin, an adipocyte-derived satiety-inducing peptide hormone, plays a critical role in mediating food…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Functional brain networks represent dynamic connectivity patterns among brain regions that change across cognitive states and in response to disease or injury. Graph-based models are a relat…