Biomedical and Health Sciences
Immunotherapy has shown promise as a treatment approach for patients with hematologic malignancies by engineering one’s immune system to better target a particular antigen. Treatment for hem…
Physics and Astronomy
My project investigated if Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion can apply to orbits of the moons around each planet. My hypotheses were: there will be a strong correlation between published and…
Plant Sciences
Researchers conducting experiments on Populus trichocarpa discovered the presence of endophytic nitrogen fixing bacteria through the indicator nif h gene. This bacteria allows the plant to h…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
It’s important to understand if a demonstration of questioning one’s definition of “happy” and “content” can change one’s perception of being “happy.” Through an educational video, I hypothe…
Animal Sciences
Globally, prematurity is the leading cause of death for newborns; approximately one million children die each year due to complications of preterm birth. This project develops a novel method…
Plant Sciences
Citrus greening disease (HLB), first identified in 2005 in Miami-Dade, is caused by a fastidious, phloem-specific bacteria known as Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas), occurring in mos…
Engineering Mechanics
Currently, rocket nozzles are designed in a bell shape and the key to the performance of the nozzle is its width. Under expanded nozzles prove optimal performance at low pressure (high altit…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
BACKGROUND: According to the International Diabetes Foundation, there are over 415 million people worldwide diagnosed with diabetes [1]. In the United States alone, there are 29.1 million pe…
Engineering Mechanics
Question: "How can a traditional wing be simplified to benefit stealth?" To create the hypothesis, Bernoulli’s principle, aerodynamics, and wing control were used to design a flapless/slatle…
Animal Sciences
Honey Bees are extremely important, performing 80 percent of all pollination worldwide. Their population has been rapidly declining at an alarming rate. Multiple studies have shown declining…
Biochemistry
Butterflies use multiple ways to communicate. From their colorful wing patterns to signaling molecules, butterflies use and respond to multiple pheromones and volatile compounds in the envir…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
The purpose of this experiment was to measure the accuracy of in-stent nanosensors (1, 2, 3, & 4) at varying heart rates (60, 90, & 110 beats per minute) and varying levels of occlusion (70%…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
This research was to design an artificial structure to house a calcite media that dissolves over an extended period of time and would have significant effects on (1) increasing the average o…
Physics and Astronomy
This paper discusses some implications of attributing spectral redshifts of astronomical objects to the dynamics of matter in the path of light propagation. Unlike Hubble’s law where the rel…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
This experiment can be defined as having two parts: the predictive model for blue-green (cyanobacteria) algae blooms and the tests for ecological damage due to these blooms. A computer progr…
Energy: Chemical
Energy efficiency is a recurrent issue in today's society. Scientists and engineers are tirelessly seeking ways to reduce the use of nonrenewable fuels and replace them with things like sola…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
This work reports the design, fabrication, and testing of a novel minimally-invasive mechanical delivery system that can potentially transport therapeutics to Huanglongbing (HLB) affected tr…
Mathematics
Many functions do not have elementary antiderivatives and different analytical methods to evaluate the definite integral fail. These functions appear in fields such as biology, physics and e…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to find potential mutagenic properties within the pairing of Iron Chloride and Ascorbic Acid in vitamin supplementation, and to create an application toward…
Environmental Engineering
In order to develop a novel approach that improves on the state-of-the-art in ultrasonic marine growth control, the function of the leading commercially available device was analyzed. The de…
Environmental Engineering
In Uganda, and around the world, the water crises have negatively affected society by introducing disease outbursts, diminishing the economic potential of women, etc. Plant matter has high m…
Biochemistry
Lactose intolerance is seen by many as an inevitable part of life. And many people resign themselves to suffer through symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea, flatulence, and bloa…
Mathematics
How is it possible to calculate the direction of the reflection of an arbitrary ray of light off of a surface existing in any number of dimensions without the use of trigonometry? This proje…
Embedded Systems
The purpose of this project is to create affordable augmented reality glasses to help children with autism better recognize emotions. Research conducted by Stanford University indicates that…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Autism Spectrum Disorder is the fastest growing developmental disability in America with the CDC labeling 1 in 59 children as Autistic. Currently within the Autism Diagnostics field, due to…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Current gas sensors possess many disadvantages, from low gas specificity to short life spans to the requiring of extensive maintenance. Carbon nanotubes' extremely specific structure inspire…
Chemistry
Buckminsterfullerenes exhibit remarkable reactivity compared to the chemistry of other carbon allotropes due to all double bonds being unconjugated. This leads to it being a super electron d…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from mixed gas streams is vital for industrial flue gas remediation, fuel gas refining, and chemical production. Existing liquid amine technology is hampered by…
Physics and Astronomy
This study investigates the use of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) to create equivalent circuits for human keratinocyte cells in Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle Media (DMEM) with and…
Physics and Astronomy
The Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte galaxy is a dwarf, irregular galaxy located in the constellation Cetus, that has yet to be fully and accurately analyzed. RR Lyrae variable stars are short-period v…