Chemistry
Currently, there are some ways cancer is clinically treated but most methods have adverse effects. A way that cancer is commonly treated is by using chemotherapeutic drugs. Chemotherapy work…
Systems Software
All aircraft are reliant on situational awareness data contained in automatic dependent surveillance-broadcasts (ADS-B) to stay efficient and safe. Currently, ADS-B is broadcast on 1090 MHz…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Cardiovascular malformations are the most common type of birth defects. Congential HeartDisease occurs in approximately 1% of all births globally and has a 48.1% infant mortality rate. Given…
Biomedical Engineering
Millions of Americans suffer from physical disabilities that make performing day-to-day tasks a challenge. In order to meet the demand for assistive technologies during mealtime, I engineere…
Translational Medical Science
Vaping is a process of inhaling and exhaling an aerosol using some type of vaping device. Vaping has become very popular among people, especially teens. Propylene glycol (PG) and vegetable g…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The urban heat island is an area of elevated temperature that is a result of fluxes that bring in or shed energy. During the day the energy input is radiation from the sun and the atmosphere…
Plant Sciences
Global population growth is far outpacing food production, leading to overgrowth of high protein crops and poor soil health. Legumes are often used in crop rotations to replenish nutrients,…
Physics and Astronomy
The orbit determination and projection of potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) are crucial, as these bodies present a danger to Earth and spacecraft. The goal of this study was to determin…
Animal Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to test what factors affected the speed of adaptability and learning in pigeons. To do this, I separated the experiment into two parts: gender testing and…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Approximately 44 million people worldwide live with Alzheimer’s disease or a related form of dementia. Alzheimer’s is particularly difficult to diagnose because the symptoms occur after the…
Biomedical Engineering
Epilepsy threatens the lives and freedom of around 50 million individuals worldwide annually. Predicting epileptic episodes (seizures) would increase the quality of life of epileptics. Howev…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Sodium benzoate is one of the most commonly used preservatives in the food industry. Although the compound is recognized as safe by the FDA, the effects of sodium benzoate on human health ha…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Students attending high school today have an increased average stress level compared to those in the past. Heightened stress levels in high school students can cause health problems if stres…
Translational Medical Science
The primary focus of this research was to identify tuberculosis proteins recognized by guinea pig antibodies and their origin within the tuberculosis bacterium. Tuberculosis is one of the to…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
An inquiry worthy of primary investigation in this project concerns the formation of an alteration halo around the alkaline magmatic center of Cripple Creek and Victor as a result of Oligoce…
Engineering Mechanics
Being a 5th- generation farmer, it is understood that soil health is vital for crop production. Soil analysis helps to manage the soil resource but is currently a timely process. In addition…
Chemistry
The primary focus of this research is to identify and utilize a cost-effective pathway to synthesize 3,5-disubstituted delta-2-isoxazoline with consistently high percentage yields. 3,5-disub…
Microbiology
This project was conducted due to the growing issue of antibiotic resistance. In commercial feedlots animals are often pretreated with antibiotics as a precaution. When an animal is treated…
Translational Medical Science
Piperlongumine (PLM) is a compound derived from the long pepper that can selectively kill cancer cells and cancer stem cells, which are often responsible for relapses. PLM has the potential…
Systems Software
The purpose of my project was to create an artificial intelligence algorithm that would, be able to identify hand-written digits without using any existing artificial intelligence libraries.…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Transcriptional pausing, the inhibition of RNA polymerase (RNAP) elongation during transcription, is a vital regulator of DNA transcription that offers increased control over gene expression…
Embedded Systems
Third Award
Approximately 90% of the world’s 40 million blind live in developing nations. Less than 10% of blind children in the developing world go to school due to lack of accessible materials, and li…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is used extensively across the world to get detailed physiological images that are unattainable with other imaging modalities. Although it has widespread app…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Emotion inference is the ability to infer how another individual is feeling and is crucial to social interaction and well-being. The predominant form of investigation involves unimodal, simp…
Plant Sciences
This investigation presents a novel approach of characterizing the alpine treeline as a phase transition from one phase (forest) to another (tundra). Phase transition research in other syste…
Physics and Astronomy
The goal of this study was to further confirm, characterize, and classify LHS3844b, an exoplanet detected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Furthermore, I strove to determ…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Oil and gas fuel our lives and our world, but the impact of certain operational methods could have negative consequences on the environment and the earth, including what lies beneath the sur…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
The decades long trend of transistor size reduction has recently faced a roadblock because of its reliance on already extremely scaled silicon transistors. However, atomically thin semicondu…
Environmental Engineering
Can Raton Basin produced gas well water be reused for agriculture? Last year’s project determined produced water is comparable to other water sources for agriculture in a hydroponic system.…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The goal of this project is to simulate the application and use of limestone in acidic riparian systems, and how it positively impacts water chemistry from toxic tributaries within the Upper…