Biomedical and Health Sciences
Background: Accurate white blood cell classification and count in the peripheral blood is fundamental in diagnosing major diseases. It could be performed by an automated analyzer with limite…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Second Award
Hormonal breast cancer has a good prognosis compared to other breast cancer subtypes, however, ER-/PR+/HER2-, a hormonal breast cancer type, does not receive the benefits of hormonal therapy…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Increasing pharmaceutical options will help develop diverse individualized healthcare plans (GLIFWC Commission, 1993). Ethnopharmaceutical studies can provide pathways for diversification. Y…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project used an online mapping tool (ArcGIS) to generate wolf location maps. Wolf and Line 3 location shape files were given to the researcher from a Fond du Lac Resource Management Div…
Translational Medical Science
Cancer has a major impact on people around the world and is a large burden on society. Ultraviolet (UV) rays damage DNA, which significantly increases the risk of skin cancer, or melanoma. W…
Animal Sciences
Third Award
Adapting the evidence-based medical practice of giving oral sucrose to human infants before painful procedures, during the 2020-21 foreign animal disease outbreak of RHDV2 (Rabbit Hemorrhagi…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Despite the immense promise of cancer immunotherapies, there are significant challenges to overcoming treatment resistance and improving efficacy. Strategies such as the combination immunoth…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
Mus musculus (mice) are often used to model the human immune system and to develop healthcare treatments because mouse immunology accurately recapitulates many aspects of the human immune sy…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Solving various social problems—such as environmental pollution and epidemics—requires the majority of the community members to pursue behavioral change. The type of behavior adopted is dete…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Medical devices are commonly used by patients worldwide. However, they can be subject to malfunction when they are in use. This can lead to injury, bodily harm, or even death. To combat this…
Microbiology
In Western medicine, the search for new antibiotics is becoming increasingly urgent due to developing antibiotic resistance, and few novel antibiotics have been discovered in the last decade…
Translational Medical Science
Multiple myeloma (MM), an incurable cancer of the plasma cells in the bone marrow, is the 2nd most common hematological malignancy. Melphalan is an alkylator chemotherapy and an effective tr…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Deaf and hard-of-hearing people often use American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate. Since ASL interpreters are frequently inaccessible, affordable robotic interpreters are a promising alt…
Materials Science
Something that has always interested me is 3D printing, so I decided to conduct an experiment testing 3D printed pieces. The goal was to determine at which angles the test pieces should be p…
Biochemistry
Waste material from cardboard recycling (sludge) was evaluated for its glucose contents and potential for ethanol production. This research shows that ethanol plants would be able to process…
Physics and Astronomy
Homemade sugar rockets are a simple, cost-effective way of making small-scale rocket motors. The most common way people go about making these rockets is by mixing potassium nitrate with powd…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
An experiment was conducted to study the impact of dyes on water quality. Untreated dye wastewater causes hypoxia, and a lower living standard for populations relying on the body of water. T…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Martial arts performance assessment of karate practitioners was conducted using a low-cost electromyography (EMG) sensor and data acquisition system. The participants were asked to perform k…
Animal Sciences
Wild Turkeys have predominantly been found in southern Minnesota until recent observations in NE Minnesota. Turkeys rely on having less than one foot of snow on average all winter long (Rusc…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
Cancer is one of the deadliest illnesses in the world, and to find a cure for cancer, information must be obtained on the human body’s response to tumors. The purpose of this study was to id…
Environmental Engineering
This study was done to determine if mealworm gut bacteria could again be quantified, isolated using differential media, identified, and then further used to biodegrade polystyrene (PS). The…
Embedded Systems
As America ages, it's estimated that by 2024, nearly 45% of the country's population will be over the age of 50. While retirement years may be filled with travel, hobbies, and time with fami…
Engineering Mechanics
Falls are the leading cause of injury in the United States amongst those aged 65 or older as every second an older person falls. When a fallen individual is left on the floor for a prolonged…
Translational Medical Science
Cardiac arrhythmias occur when the electrical impulses that coordinate heart beats don't work properly. In the U.S., they cause over a million hospitalizations and over 200,000 sudden cardia…
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of this study was to determine the optimal drafting formations for reducing the aerodynamic drag experienced by a group of cross country skiers. Previous studies on cycling and r…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Second Award
The anti-estrogen tamoxifen is a highly effective hormonal therapy for hormonal (HR+) breast cancer patients. However, the estrogen receptor-negative, progesterone receptor–positive (ER-/PR+…
Environmental Engineering
Designing an Autonomous Solar Powered Robot Capable of Filtering out Excess Phosphorus and Nitrogen from Waterways to Naturalize the Process of Eutrophication Mohammed Omer, Abdullah Saidi A…
Physics and Astronomy
In an effort to complete the census of Astronomical objects in the solar neighborhood, I have been searching for objects such as brown dwarfs, low mass dwarfs stars, white dwarfs, etc. Due t…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
During the initial spread of COVID-19, countries varied in their ability to control the virus. Science shows this variability is in part due to sociocultural factors. One sociocultural facto…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Mutations on the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein have gained increasing attention. However, its mutation pattern in different geographic locations within a country has not been investigated. In thi…