Environmental Engineering
The Researcher plans to investigate the use of drones for air quality sampling in urban areas to detect harmful pathogens or toxic gasses. With his background in aerospace engineering and dr…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Second Award
Different Olympic male and female uniform designs create many potential problems: feeling uncomfortable on international television, risk of body part exposure, and sexualization of the body…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Arsenic is a prevalent existing environmental toxin and also a human carcinogen. Recently, mushrooms were found to have unique properties that allowed them to metabolize arsenic into a compl…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
Glioblastoma is the most aggressive brain tumor that claims around 200,000 people each year. Glioblastoma patients have a median survival of less than 4 months when left untreated. To extend…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Purpose: Rivers can be contaminated by sewage, industrial runoff, and other pollutants. Most of these water sources can be polluted with different hazardous toxins and pathogenic organisms.…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
With the growing amount of COVID-19 cases, especially in developing countries with limited medical resources, it’s essential to accurately diagnose COVID-19 with high specificity. Due to cha…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this project was to determine if surface runoffs are harmful to Daphnia Magna by measuring the heart rates of Daphnia before and after exposure to the surface runoffs. Five di…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
As evidenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, infectious diseases have a dire impact on society. There is an urgent demand for developing strategies against infections. Dietary supplements, such as…
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the effects of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) on plant growth and photosynthesis. This work involved growing Arabidopsis thalia…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Third Award
As the most abundant biopolymer on Earth, cellulose represents a promising and sustainable feedstock for the production of biofuels and value-added chemicals. Due to its recalcitrant nature,…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Second Award
3D human motion reconstruction from a monocular video is one of the most attractive yet challenging research fields. It has the potential to enable 3D broadcasting, advance virtual and augme…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Petroleum-based engines use carbon-based non-renewable energy sources, and electric options have low range and slow refuel speeds. This experiment focused on designing, engineering, and prod…
Materials Science
MXenes are a 2D nanomaterial typically synthesized using hydrofluoric acid (HF) etching, a process that is time-consuming, unsafe for workers, and environmentally detrimental. A method devel…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Maintaining optimal indoor air quality (IAQ), humidity, and household safety is a critical aspect of improving overall health. Poor IAQ and improper humidity have adverse health effects. To…
Mathematics
Third Award
Dynamical optimal transport is a field in mathematics and computer science involving interpolation between two probability measures. While dynamical optimal transport on continuous domains i…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Over the past 50 years, the use of hydraulic fracturing or fracking has increased as the demand for fossil fuels has increased and the process is more efficient at extracting oil and natural…
Systems Software
As technology increasingly impacts daily life, technological interaction is critical to the future of equity and health. In an effort to advance this interaction, the researcher sought to de…
Biomedical Engineering
Every year in the U.S alone 100+ people die and thousands experience heart attacks while shoveling the snow. Studies show that the combination of cold air, which constricts arteries, and str…
Translational Medical Science
The opioid crisis has taken a huge toll on our country. Noting that in 2018, nearly 22% of opioid related deaths in the U.S. were due to prescription painkiller overdose, this research aims…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
First Award
With a wide range of applications in artificial intelligence (AI), human action recognition is one of the most attractive yet challenging research fields. It has the potential to foster natu…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
First Award
In this project, I successfully studied the relationship between multi-enzyme biocatalyst structure and performance and developed a comprehensive quantitative model to predict the assembly e…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
As the percentage of brain tumor that is resected increases, a patient’s life expectancy drastically increases. Thus, neurosurgeons need to be able to differentiate between healthy brain tis…
Translational Medical Science
Obesity can weaken the immune system and increase the risk of contracting a plethora of life-threatening diseases. It currently affects 1 in 5 children in the U.S. This study investigated th…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are widely used to carry out segmentation tasks in biomedical images. Most DNNs developed for this purpose are based on some variation of the encoder- decoder U-Ne…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Cardiovascular monitoring at home is highly desirable for managing diseases such as heart failure. Existing technologies are inconvenient, too costly, and/or incapable of acquiring clinicall…
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this investigation was to ascertain the public’s perception of GMOs as well as the accuracy of their labeling. Through lab experiments involving DNA extraction, PCR, and elect…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
COVID-19 has been a global health crisis for the past year. One way of testing COVID-19 is with the use of chest X-rays. Radiologists read an X-ray and provide results within 24 hours. Howev…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Maintaining optimal indoor air quality (IAQ) and humidity is a critical aspect of improving overall health. Low IAQ leads to respiratory illnesses, while low humidity causes dehydration and…
Translational Medical Science
Lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer death, has no simple, non-invasive early detection tests. This project aims to create a multiplex sputum-based RNA probe through the targeting of the…
Plant Sciences
Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels are on the rise due primarily to the burning of fossil fuels. A previous study by Karowe & Grubb (2011) found, when grown under elevated CO2, Brassica…