Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The past three years have seen SARS-CoV-2 wreak havoc on society with limited effective treatments available due to the amount of trial and error involved. However, with recent advancements…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Girls' beliefs about math and formation of math identity begin long before college, yet almost all studies examining stereotypes about girls in math and the impact on math identity therein h…
Chemistry
Oxygen is essential for all lives on earth. It generally takes too long for seedlings to mature enough to produce significant oxygen through photosynthesis. Meanwhile, portable electricity i…
Translational Medical Science
Wound assessment is a critical aspect of wound treatment, as the healing progress of a wound determines the optimal approach to care. However, the heterogeneity of burn wounds often complica…
Physics and Astronomy
With the new variant on the rise, and trauma with Covid-19, it has been ever more harder to communicate with the people we love as well as our peers. Whether you have Covid-19 and have to qu…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Limited hand movement caused by paralysis can significantly decrease quality of life for stroke patients. Wearable robotic hand orthoses are able to provide everyday assistance and rehabilit…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has a well-documented sex bias, in which males are diagnosed approximately four times more frequently than females. Although recent human studies have identifi…
Microbiology
Antibiotic resistance in bacteria is a growing medical problem that has resulted in significant increases in the severity of bacterial infections and the cost of healthcare. These consequenc…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Tailless Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicles (FW-MAVs) have gained more attention recently because they utilize energy more efficiently compared to fixed-wing aircraft and rotorcrafts. FW-MAVs…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The main goal of every rocket engine is to generate a lot of heat and pressure and then convert that into workable thrust. The problem is most rockets don’t solve pressure discrepancies at v…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
Rare concentrations of neutral atomic carbon (C I) in interstellar clouds of high redshift galaxies are excellent tracers of cold molecular clouds, providing a window to understand the condi…
Environmental Engineering
A highly demanded PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, surgical masks effectively prevent virus transmission. However, discarding masks after a single use is costly and environmentally detrimen…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Electronic waste is the world’s fastest-growing waste stream, and a source of contamination as the heavy metals used in electronics leach into the environment. Because of its electrical and…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Though masks have now become an essential item the application of the now-widespread use of masks is greater than just in the context of protection from COVID-19. Throughout the day, mask-we…
Translational Medical Science
There is an unprecedented global mental health and substance abuse crisis including prescription drugs, affecting adults and youth. A recent FDA guidance requires abuse liability testing in…
Biomedical Engineering
Inspection of a myriad number of thermometers for commercial sale reveals many discrepancies with the reading. More specifically, things like tympanic and temporal readings are greater than…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Diabetes is a growing and deadly epidemic around the world and particularly in the United States. Complications associated with diabetes arise from prolonged high blood glucose concentration…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
A mobile carbon capture device to extract CO2 from car exhaust was designed and built to fit in a normal passenger car, a Toyota Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV). The mobile device was construct…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Synthesizability—the ability to build a compound using purchasable starting materials—is a vital consideration in computer-aided drug discovery; virtually created molecules are of no value i…
Environmental Engineering
I will display how easy 3D printing can be and overall how the use of one 3D printer in just a single household can reduce waste and potentially contribute to the halt of global warming. In…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
Around 3.8 million women in the US are diagnosed with breast cancer. In terms of the survival rate, late or misclassified diagnosis decreases an individual’s chance of survival from 90% to j…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Fourth Award
For the past two decades, the aviation industry has been increasingly placing a heightened focus on maximizing the efficiency of air travel to both maximize profits as well as to minimize en…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Noise and vibration control has been an increasingly valued concern within railway transportation mainly due to its negative health impacts. Sources of noise and vibration within operating r…
Plant Sciences
Fertilizers (chemical substances that are added to soil) supply plants with nutrients to promote faster and better germination and growth. The research was carried out to determine the most…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
PAWE converts manually controlled wheelchairs into electrically powered wheelchairs. PAWE attaches onto most standard manual wheelchairs by sliding onto rods. The rods are attached to the wh…
Physics and Astronomy
Single atom catalyst (SAC) is an emerging class of catalyst that is able to incorporate the scalability of heterogeneous catalysts and atom economy of homogeneous which exhibit superior cata…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Second Award
Common genetic diseases—systemic diseases caused by thousands of mutations—affect millions of people around the world. Many of these mutations fall within regulatory regions. While the mutat…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Abstract The improper disposal of plastic waste has led to an abundance of plastics in the oceans, introducing a wide range of toxins along with a potential global health crisis. However, th…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, a child with birth defects is born approximately every 4.5 minutes. The currently accepted method to determine the potential of ne…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
Portable nuclear reactors are novel solutions to the impending energy crisis, providing large amounts of electrical power in a mobile, clean and efficient manner. In my past work, I develope…