Cellular and Molecular Biology
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most prominent type of liver cancer around the world, and it ranks as the fourth leading cause of cancer death worldwide with these rates only rising. D…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to determine the effects of ozone pollution on the health and physiological development of food crops. Ozone pollution will have an effect on the health and…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of my experiment is to explore sustainable solutions to solve the global environmental issue of desertification. Arid climates foster conditions for dry, compact soil, possibly l…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Amidst detrimental environmental challenges and irreversible climate damage, piezoelectric energy harvesting emerges as a promising green technology. Piezoelectric materials, capable of gene…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The overall goal of this project is to create more sustainable adobe bricks using the method that mud dauber wasps use to construct their nest. Previous research showed mud dauber nests have…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
As the second leading cause of death, cancer has negatively impacted the lives of millions across the globe both directly and indirectly. In this study, we propose targeting the CaSR (calciu…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV), commonly known as the cause of infectious mononucleosis, infects approximately 95% of the adult human population worldwide (Bjornevik et al., 2022). Recently, EBV i…
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if carbon dioxide (CO2) from combustion emissions could be effectively removed using post-combustion water absorption. Combustions sources acr…
Embedded Systems
Biometric authentication has become ubiquitous in the modern world. Other forms of biometric authentication: iris, retina, fingerprint, and face verification, are simple and easy to use, but…
Plant Sciences
Pollutants have been shown to affect soil characteristics, particularly soil pH. Microplastics, an increasingly widespread pollutant, increase soil pH, according to literature. To understand…
Translational Medical Science
Aging is a process involving dynamic changes to the living body over time. From a biological standpoint, it relies on various molecular and cellular factors typically dependent on the enviro…
Biomedical Engineering
Recent studies have found that estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer cells exhibit enhanced proliferation and drug resistance when grown in a 3D environment when compared to 2D cell…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Purpose: Though the behavioral effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) are well-documented, a gap exists in current literature on its effects on glymphatic system dynamics…
Mathematics
Fractals and knots are intriguing mathematical objects with similar applications and visual appeal, yet there have been very few reports on combining the two. In this project, an algorithmic…
Chemistry
The purpose of my experiment is to explore environmentally friendly solutions to solve one of the global environmental problems: OCEAN ACIDIFICATION. Water bodies including oceans are consta…
Translational Medical Science
Traditionally, in neurosurgery planning cortical language areas are identified by having individuals actively perform a language task while the magnetic resonance image (MRI) scan is acquire…
Chemistry
What in the world would baking soda and vinegar have to do with a rocket ship? Let me explain! I have always had a love for rockets. So through my natural evolution of thought I somehow land…
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this experiment was to determine which color of solar powered water purification device would purify water at the fastest rate. The hypothesis was if the bottom of a water pur…
Animal Sciences
The Pomacea maculata (apple snail) is a large, aquatic snail species invasive to the Southern United States. They consume large amounts of vegetation, which leads to wetland erosion as well…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The overuse of chemical fertilizers causes eutrophication, which can damage aquatic ecosystems; I set out to determine whether alternatives to chemical fertilizers could decrease nitrate, ni…
Materials Science
The United Nations deems clean water a human right. Even so, the World Health Organization reports that over 2 billion people worldwide still do not have access to clean running water. Low-i…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Emotion regulation is the way individuals manage, experience, and exhibit their emotions. This novel study investigated how emotion regulation strategies were used during the COVID-19 pandem…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Endometrial Carcinoma is the fifth most common type of cancer in women. Analyzing the morphology of tissue samples is essential for diagnosing endometrial cancer. Deep learning can be used t…
Environmental Engineering
Membrane capacitive deionization (MCDI) is a low-cost and energy efficient desalination technology used for remediating brackish water. MCDI is an electro-sorption technique that removes sal…
Biomedical Engineering
A novel approach to mimicking in vivo tissue microenvironments is to grow cells as 3D spheroids to provide a model system to analyze cell growth. Droplet microfluidic devices provide a platf…
Mathematics
Torus knots are knots that lie on the surface of a torus. Torus knots have a wide variety of applications in quantum mechanics, molecular chemistry, and topology. In this paper, a comprehens…
Environmental Engineering
The Mississippi River is a huge untapped kinetic energy source that flows at a rate of 1.6 million gallons of water per second. Meanwhile, burning fossil fuels produces 35 billion gigatons o…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
The purpose is to determine the potential to reduce linear acceleration and tangential velocity during front and rear oblique impacts of a football helmet facemask. Independent Variables: No…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This experiment tests the efficiency of three different metal electrodes in the process of hydrolysis. The hypothesis of the experiment is that the catalysts will have an effect on the effic…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
The abundance of M-dwarfs, combined with the relative ease of detecting Earth-sized planets around them, has made them prime targets for finding and characterizing planets in their ‘habitabl…