Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Telemedicine & remote diagnosis using Computer-Aided Detection hold the key to timely medical treatment for millions of people, in absence of radiologists in remote regions. Unfortunately, t…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Fourth Award
Health and environmental problems result from both the release of dyes into ecosystems and greenhouse gas emissions from energy generation via fossil fuel combustion. To create a cost-effect…
Translational Medical Science
Liver cysts characterize a multitude of illnesses ranging from liver cancer to autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). About 1 in 20 people have at least one liver cyst (Cnosse…
Translational Medical Science
COVID-19 is caused by an RNA virus called SARS-CoV-2. PCR testing is a gold-standard method for COVID-19 diagnostic testing. However, there exists no COVID-19 diagnostic test that has the ca…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
Desertification, which is increasing at an alarming rate, imposes food insecurities for nations with huge desert areas and weakens ecosystems. Many methods, like sand fences, have been devel…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
High rates of mortality are associated with low rates of stem cell regeneration in the intestine post irradiation. Low cell self-renewal is also associated with numerous terminal gastrointes…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Today, we are looking for a more sustainable energy source that does not negatively impact the environment, like air, water, and land pollution. We might think of wind, solar, or geothermal…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
Executive functions (EFs) are key skills linked to academic and life-long success, helping individuals respond appropriately to different situations. They include paying attention, maintaini…
Environmental Engineering
Today’s wind turbine blades are very difficult and expensive to recycle. After they are decommissioned wind turbine blades are put in landfills where the materials mix with the soil and grou…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
For more than a decade, the Tarrytown Reservoirs have had a severe algae problem which has resulted in an imbalanced ecosystem and an unpleasant aesthetic. The problem has been managed with…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Neurogenesis is highly crucial to the success of the nervous system, and perturbation of this process has the potential to elicit disease states. A better understanding has implications for…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Since 1991, the Lead and Copper Rule (LCR) enacted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) aimed to provide regulation for lead (Pb) and copper (Cu) in public water systems (PWS). Durin…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Cancer metastasis poses a significant threat to global public health, accounting for an estimated 90% of cancer-related deaths, due to a lack of effective anti-metastatic agents. The overexp…
Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
Harmful algal blooms on lakes across the globe have become more common as a result of climate change. Cyanobacteria in the blooms produce harmful toxins which have significant consequences t…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Annually approximately 20,000 people are wrongfully accused and imprisoned for crimes. Key eyewitnesses are often relied upon to help make these convictions. Cognitive Psychology studies the…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Analyses of voter turnout rates in the United States have established that nearly half of eligible American voters consistently choose not to participate in elections (Roberts, 2009). This t…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
The genetic contribution to the development of type 1 diabetes (T1D) remains unclear; however, certain gene variants contribute to the risk of developing this metabolic disorder. Elucidating…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cancer is the cause of every sixth death globally with inadequate screening attributing to 40,000 deaths in the U.S. annually. An alternative to current genetic mutation screening efforts is…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder characterized by death of upper and lower motor neurons and progressive paralysis of the extremities. ALS is a compl…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Second Award
Our survival depends on the brain's adaptation of information processing to changing cognitive demands; this ability stems from the interactions of specialized brain networks. At rest, netwo…
Physics and Astronomy
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) accelerates heavy ions through electromagnetic fields to relativistic speeds in order to observe the conditions at the beginning of the Universe. T…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
Studying star clusters within the Milky Way is crucial to gaining a deeper understanding of the universe. Star clusters need to constantly be analyzed and cataloged, so changes regarding ste…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Remote sensing of water quality parameters and contaminants is a cheap and efficient alternative to traditional in-situ water sampling methods. Sensors on satellites detect the reflectance o…
Embedded Systems
In August of 2019, there were 79,000 wildfires and up to 90% of them resulted from unpredictable human-related activity. Spreading at rates of up to 22 kilometers per hour, early detection o…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The conventional use of current therapeutic approaches to treat metastatic cancers is limited. Kinesin Family 19 (KIF19) is a microtubule-associated protein involved in cell motility and has…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Second Award
This study focuses on creating a machine learning model that will predict the spread of any invasive species. This study used hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA), an invasive forest pest that poses…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The most commonly administered chemotherapeutic agent in Glioblastoma (GBM) treatment, Temozolomide (TMZ), fails to generate a clinically significant response in over 50% of patients due to…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Lead and cadmium have many adverse effects on the environment and human body, ranging from developmental hindrance to affecting vital organs within the human body. Lead and cadmium poisoning…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In this study, the effect of nitrate concentrations on the anuran species abundance in aquatic habitats across Long Island was investigated. Anurans are frogs and toads. With recent declines…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Reinforcement learning is a form of machine learning that trains a digital model by associating a reward value with different actions based on how beneficial they are. Several algorithms hav…