Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The Rio Grande Gorge bridge has an average of six suicides/year, as compared to 13.6 suicides/year (Atkins-Witmer, Woods, 2013) for the Golden Gate bridge. Per capita, this is a comparable s…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this study was to assess how visual information impacts the accuracy of short-term memory recall. As memory is an essential human function, the project aimed to examine how to…
Biomedical Engineering
The increasing feasibility of commercial space travel has sparked interest in the biological effects of spaceflight. Exposure to altered gravity, including the microgravity of space and the…
Chemistry
First Award
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a class of highly fluorinated hydrocarbons, pose global contamination and pollution concerns due to both their toxicity and their potential to inc…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Smoke plumes produced by wildfires pose a threat to public safety. However, a lack of accurate real-time information on smoke plumes provided by current methods like satellite imagery leaves…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
While our modern society has successfully electrified the majority of the globe, there remain areas where geography and terrain significantly hinder the installation of conventional electric…
Chemistry
My Zuni ancestors lived in the Grand Canyon long ago. A Zuni medicine man pointed out many Zuni features to my mentor on a Grand Canyon Rafting Tour, sponsored by the Grand Canyon Conservanc…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Animal populations worldwide are rapidly declining, and a low-cost, efficient technology that can accurately count endangered species could be vital for monitoring population changes over ma…
Physics and Astronomy
Luminol is a chemical used in forensic science that produces chemiluminescence in the presence of hemoglobin, allowing it to be used to detect blood. Previous studies on luminol have noted p…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
This Environmental Science project brings to light the real issues the Navajo People face from health concerns to pollution on their sacred lands in a unique and resourceful way. It investig…
Biomedical Engineering
Electroencephalograms (EEGs) are devices that offer a non-intrusive way to measure the electrical activity of the brain, with various applications such as monitoring neurological conditions.…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Purpose: Cutaneous melanoma causes over 8,000 deaths annually in the U.S. Survival differences may be linked to tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs), white blood cells that eliminates cance…
Physics and Astronomy
Magnetic reconnection is a phenomenon that drives solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections on the sun's surface. A strong enough CME is capable of damaging electrical equipment, disrupting co…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
It’s a reasonable and known human response to want pain reactions to end as fast as possible. The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP; 1979) defines pain as “an unpleasant…
Environmental Engineering
In Dona Ana County, pollutants such as arsenic and chlorine, are often found in concentrations higher than what is considered safe in drinking water and bring upon long-term health consequen…
Microbiology
The researchers conducted experiments using Pestalotiopsis microspora in which the researchers created a non-toxic biodegradable process of decomposing plastic for a nutrient source and re-f…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This science fair project is about Peltier tiles and determining if the heating and cooling of this device is an ample form of electricity. Peltier tiles will be used to harness energy to pr…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Our body has many ways to defend itself against foreign pathogens with the first defense being our innate immune system. Among the many different substances that can improve our immune syste…
Animal Sciences
Insect agriculture provides a new way of accumulating macro and micro nutrients for organisms to feed on without having the drawbacks of traditional agriculture. In order to explore the capa…
Environmental Engineering
Problematic water consumption has become a pressing global issue in recent years. Despite regular filtration efforts, conventional methods often fail to remove all hazardous chemicals in wat…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
My research provides the theoretical storage of data in DNA, expressed using the four natural “A,” “C,” “G,” and “T” DNA nucleobases. The DNA-stored information may be actual biological geno…
Mathematics
Third Award
This project aims to help restore ancient Greek musical tradition and, thus, give us a better understanding of Greek culture by digitally reconstructing the chelys, a tortoise-shell lyre ove…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Air pollution is the single greatest environmental health threat, according to the WHO, and disproportionately impacts developing nations, which suffer 90% of the 5 million premature deaths…
Embedded Systems
The realm of small deep-space satellites is both a developing and exciting sector in engineering. The accessibility that comes with small format satellites(CubeSats) is unparalleled in the s…
Chemistry
The aromatic amino acid Tyrosine was synthesized using three types of clays, water, heat, and a few common compounds. However, initial efforts to identify Tyrosine were stymied by the sole u…
Chemistry
Finding new methods of oxygenation is an important pursuit in the modern age of respiratory diseases, climate change, and the COVID pandemic. Individuals who struggle to achieve sufficient l…
Translational Medical Science
Anti-cancer peptides (ACPs), a class of small peptide molecules, have gained increasing attention in cancer research due to their ability to target and kill cancer cells selectively, sparing…
Environmental Engineering
With rapidly increasing global temperatures, fires have increased dramatically in both magnitude and number. Such fires can prove disastrous to the general population; in California, for exa…
Animal Sciences
Crickets are a global source of nutrition for pets and humans alike. This will only increase as traditional agriculture faces increased challenges due to the advent of global warming. Howeve…
Environmental Engineering
The Four-Corners region of the Desert Southwest is where much of the Diné (Navajo) population lives remotely, in traditional Hoghans. These Hoghans neither have running water nor electricity…