This project was designed to recycle the by-product produced when filtering the carbon output of exhaust of fossil fueled cars to decrease carbon footprint. Filtration occurred when carbon d…
Cholera toxin causes a diarrheal response in patients by inducing chloride efflux from intestinal epithelial cells, but it does not kill the intoxicated epithelial cells. Cholera toxin also…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Diabetes is a serious worldwide epidemic that affects a growing portion of the population. While the most common method for testing blood glucose involves finger pricking, it is painful and…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of my project was to determine if it is possible to detect heavy metals in coconut water, when the coconut plant grows on contaminated soil. Since coconut plants take a long time…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cognitive impairment can be induced by conditions ranging from PTSD to the early onset of dementia (a symptom of Alzheimer’s). However, there is currently no way to inexpensively, non-invasi…
The heat capacity (Cp) divergence of a fluid at its critical point has fascinated researchers for over 60 years. This singularity offers unlimited energy storage potential, but achieving it…
Third Award
The World Health Organization estimates that over two million deaths worldwide can be attributed to unsanitary water. High levels of fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) in freshwater environments…
The goal of this research project is to analyze and to classify the Electrocardiograms (EKGs) of healthy and unhealthy patients through two novel methods. The first method consists of viewin…
With the advent of Google’s automated cars, newer technology is being incorporated into the actual driving of vehicles. They possess the sensors and processing power necessary to perform the…
Spacecraft are often limited by the efficiency of their engines and the amount of propellant they can carry. Recently, however, a new experimental propulsion technique known as microwave pro…
Second Award
This science investigation is aimed at developing smart phone algorithms for automated detection of seizures and falls. The product of this investigation is the Seizario app, which utilizes…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of this study is to examine the neurophysiology of place cells by studying the place cell firing patterns created when only visual cues are utilized in an environment. Based on p…
Biochemistry
Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and Butylated hydroxytoluene are synthetic phenolic antioxidants used ubiquitously in products including foods, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. Recent evaluati…
In April 2013 an emerging virus, influenza A (H7N9), was identified in humans in China, with a novel avian-origin. Since its re-emergence in October 2013, there have been more than 220 labor…
The aim of this experiment is to investigate the effect of increasing velocities of wind, being 5.5, 9.9. 10.8, and 11.7 kilometers/hour on the rate of transpiration of MarvaParvi Flora plan…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Gold nanospheres and nanoplates were synthesized by aggregation of gold seeds to determine how the difference in their morphologies and the presence of visible light would affect the rate at…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
As non-renewable energy and fresh water resources rapidly deplete, countries are utilizing electrolysis to attain potable water and renewable energy; however, many developing countries warra…
In the experiment "Electromagnetic Rail Launch System", a projectile is launched off two different copper rails that interchange with the spring Armature launch base. The hypothesis, if the…
Intestinal Escherichia coli pathogens are leading causes of acute gastroenteritis (AGE) worldwide and they are top causes of death in children under 5 years of age. Children in Colombia, Sou…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Fourth Award
Certain materials possess the ability to harness energy from light to facilitate reactions. These photocatalysts present an opportunity for providing a sustainable way to solve energy and en…
Currently, endothelial cells are cultured in vitro on matrigels: expensive and difficult to synthesize protein mixtures derived from Engelbreth-Hoth-Swarm mouse sarcoma cells. Inexpensive vi…
Commercial silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have industrial and commercial uses, and are serious environmental threats due to their synthetic coatings. Industrial-use AgNPs were synthesized and…
Systems Software
The subterranean brahminy blindsnake (Ramphotyphlops braminus) is an extremely fascinating species. They are among the smallest vertebrate animals on Earth, and they are the most widespread…
The objective of this study was to extract compounds from green algae, and evaluate them to see if they possess anti-oxidant activity for the prevention of cancer cell formation. Two unexplo…
Filtering Agricultural effluent with fungal mycelia is a multiyear study focused on developing and deploying biological filters to remove phosphorus and nitrogen from sources of run-off that…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Mycoplasma bovis is a devastating disease in the cattle industry resulting in an estimated loss of $140 million in 2011. This causes mastitis, pneumonia, poly-arthritis, and otitis media in…
Our idea and purpose is to get a new reliable source of renewable energy by sample easy cheap and applicable way everywhere everytime by absorbing the negative energy charge (electrons) whic…
Delicate manipulation of nanocrystal morphology and surface structure is crucial in order to synthesize particles with specific electrochemical properties. In this study, cuprous oxide (Cu2O…
Third Award
Four hundred tons of sulfamethazine are fed to livestock annually in North America to prevent disease and promote growth, but most of the drug is excreted unmetabolized into the environment.…
Third Award
Mikania micrantha is an weed, that has become a significant issue around the world disturbing natural interactions between plants and their environments. It destructs native plants, and thus…