Biomedical Engineering
With just 5% survival rates, pancreatic cancer continues to be one of the deadliest cancers in the world. Studies have discovered that an increase in polyamine concentration in biofluids cor…
Materials Science
A major issue we are facing as a whole people is global pollution ranging from ruining our natural ecosystems to air pollution. Our solution is changing the pollution into being less potent…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The engineering goal of this project was to design a cost-effective and functional artificial limb with the integration of 3D printing, haptic feedback, and force-sensitive resistors (FSRs).…
Translational Medical Science
With respect to evaluating biopsies for cancer diagnosis, a pressing yet often sidelined issue is that of anatomical pathology errors. Due to the image-based nature of biopsy examinations an…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Second Award
Current drone swarm technology is oftentimes not fully autonomous nor connected by a reliable network, and therefore cannot efficiently map large natural disaster environments to identify se…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
My research aims to develop a novel, noninvasive, and adaptive diagnostic platform based on analyzing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in patient’s breath, which reflect the health conditio…
Biochemistry
Biofilms are extracellular matrixes that secure microorganisms embedded within them through the EPS or extracellular polymeric substance which provides rigidity and tolerance to a wide degre…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
In the recent decades, oil spill pollution has become a prevalent issue due to its adverse environmental effects. Current cleanup procedures while effective, aren’t environmentally sustainab…
Mathematics
The relationship between atomicity and ACCP, two properties measuring the way elements factor in integral domains, is central to abstract factorization theory. It is known that all integral…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
One in twenty-six people worldwide develops epilepsy during their lifetime, including myself. Around 30% of epilepsy patients are nonresponsive to medication. It is important to identify the…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
Since the groundwork published by Torres-Vega and Frederick, the Quantum Phase Space Representation (QPSR) has been explored as a method for solving a multitude of physical systems and descr…
Biomedical Engineering
First Award
Annually, Gastrointestinal (GI) cancer affects 4.8 million people worldwide, and has 5-year survival rates as low as 8%. However, the survival rate increases to 70% if GI cancers are detecte…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The role of deep learning in the recognition of morphological structures in histopathological data is heavily stunted by extreme variations that may exist in the datasets that these deep lea…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this project was to create a device that is able to extract and collect water particles from the air and be able to turn it into drinkable water. After creating a device the e…
Microbiology
The purpose of conducting the experiment was to evaluate the effect of distance on bacteria growth from hot air-drying machines. The rationale stems from researchers such as John Ross from H…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
In this experiment, researchers aimed to identify the effect of propylene glycol on the function of cilia in algae culture chlamydomonas reinhardtii in relation to the effect of vaping on hu…
Biochemistry
In the United States, a stroke occurs every 40 seconds. 60% of strokes will occur in females and 87% will be ischemic strokes. One modifiable risk factor for stroke severity, and subsequentl…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
A pressure-regulated system was developed for the OxyCART oxygen concentrator that utilizes a pressure swing adsorption mechanism, which provides an efficient and cost-effective solution for…
Animal Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to observe the impact an altered magnetic field had on harvester ant’s foraging behavior which would help determine if harvester ants have magnetoreception…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Diabetic retinopathy, a condition in which a diabetic individual may experience vision impairment or complete blindness due to the heightened amount of blood sugar in the body, is expected t…
Embedded Systems
As a result of office work and screen entertainment, people have been sitting for long periods of time in unhealthy postures, and this has had negative physical and mental health consequence…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
This study investigates the carcinogenesis of cancer drivers by leveraging epigenetics, genomics, known biomarkers, and phenotypic information creating an algorithm identifying tumor suppres…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Second Award
Current prosthetic arm technology often lacks intelligent dexterity, haptic feedback, and are lucratively expensive ranging from 20,000 to 100,000 dollars. The engineering goal of this proje…
Environmental Engineering
Second Award
Beach pollution is an ever-growing global challenge that negatively impacts coastal ecosystems. Current solutions either involve having humans pick up pollutants (inefficient) or using beach…
Mathematics
Given a circle of radius r centered at the origin, the Gauss Circle Problem concerns counting the number of lattice points C(r) within this circle. It is known that as r grows large, the num…
Microbiology
To successfully infect host cells, viruses must precisely control the expression of their genes. In temperate bacteriophage, the repressor plays a central role in determining whether the vir…
Animal Sciences
The remarkable ability of planarian flatworms to heal severe wounds, replenish missing tissue, and recreate missing organs has long captivated biologists, but across the hundreds of planaria…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project focused on proving that those with aphantasia are at a disadvantage when it comes to standardized testing. Aphantasia is the inability to form mental images of objects that are…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
When exposed to antibiotics for long enough, a bacterial population can evolve to become resistant. This prompts the creation of innovative therapeutics such as bacteriophage therapy. 'Phage…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Quaternary Ammonium Compounds (QAC) are antimicrobial agents that are used to eliminate bacteria and are found in products that advertise antimicrobial activity. During the ongoing pandemic,…