Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Everyday, 115 Americans die from opioid overdose. These opioids, such as morphine, are often used as pain-management therapeutics. However, morphine and other synthetic drugs induce adverse…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
This project investigated the relationship between long-term trends (1980-2017) in tropical cyclone (TC) intensity and the TC wind speed evolution within the Western Tropical Atlantic (WTA)…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Negative-pressure-wound-therapy (NPWT), a wound-closure technique used following tumor resection has been suggested to promote metastasis. As this claim isn’t well established and the molecu…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The mathematical analysis of human growth, from the zygote to the adult, is key to determining long and short term health and longevity. Many studies prior have sought to develop a systemati…
Environmental Engineering
Cigarette filters (CF) and plastic straws are the number one pollution source because they are not biodegradable. It could take up to 25 years to degrade CF and straws under UV light, but th…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Approximately 7 x 10^8 kilograms of dye are produced annually and 15% are released into aquatic bodies, causing global human and environmental health problems. Many conventional purification…
Environmental Engineering
New York City process approximately 1.3 billion gallons of wastewater daily and with such quantities, wastewater treatment has become increasingly energy intensive and costly (DEP, 2016). In…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
During the progression of metastatic cancer, peripheral cells break away from the primary tumor and acquire the ability to intravasate into the circulatory and lymphatic systems. These invas…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Recently, drought conditions in South Asia have resulted in the starvation and suicides of over 500,000 individuals due to crop yield drastically decreasing. Plants are severely affected by…
Translational Medical Science
Third Award
Nanoparticle research is an emerging field of medicine meant to tackle cancer using diverse constructs; however, nanoparticles suffer from improper and insufficient delivery, which has led t…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
African American (AA) men are disproportionately affected by prostate cancer (PCa), with almost twice the incidence and mortality as compared to non-Hispanic Whites. AA have been left out of…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Over the past decade, honey bee populations have been declining due to the phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Nosema ceranae is a microsporidian parasite that has recently b…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Being the second most common cancer in both men and women, and having an average 5-year survival rate of only 17.7%, lung cancer is a high-incidence disease with low survival. The currently…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Past research has shown that athletes have higher susceptibility to multiple concussive events after initial injury. Novel understanding of the detrimental effects of multiple concussions ha…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
In recent years, the popularity of the Juul e-cigarette, and products similar to it, have increased dramatically, with Juul now leading the e-cigarette market. They are especially prevalent…
Physics and Astronomy
Since the first discovery of an exoplanet in 1989, new stellar companion detections have strengthened astronomers’ understanding of the Universe’s origins, components, and future. By utilizi…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
During viral infections, the host's innate immune system is the first line of defense to prevent viral infection. Because it directs the subsequent development of the adaptive immune respons…
Animal Sciences
Vaping and the use of e-cigarettes have major public health implications. E- cigarettes are abused by teens and used by adults seeking a “safer” alternative to smoking. However, e-cigarettes…
Biomedical Engineering
This project reports the development of a computational prediction model for the clinical classification of bipolar I disorder (BP-I) based on identification of structural abnormalities with…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder affecting a significant percentage of the human population. It is characterized by seizures that occur when neurotransmitter inhibition fails. One well-id…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are a rapidly developing technology with applications in biosensorics, targeted drug delivery, cancer therapy, diagnostics, and purity testing. One of their proper…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
While chemotherapy and targeted therapy are common cancer treatments, both have limitations. Induced apoptosis is an attractive alternative. Mitochondrial apoptosis is controlled by the BCL-…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus is a multifactorial autoimmune disease. SLE is difficult to treat due to its various causes and progressions. The PRDM1 pathway has previously been implicated in…
Systems Software
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a lifesaving procedure involving chest compressions used to resuscitate those that undergo a cardiac arrest. Although Basic Life Support (BLS) classes…
Biomedical Engineering
Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) are systems that directly connect the human brain to a computer to allow those who are motion-impaired to communicate independently. Among the signals used fo…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The current study examined the detrimental impacts of chemotherapy on the neurophysiology and neurocognition of pediatric cancer survivors. Chemobrain is the classification of neurocognitive…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
There has been a great divide in perception of graffiti, from an artform to vandalism. However, as this binary begins to blur in present day, there is currently minimal analytical research f…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Diagenesis is the compositional change in geologic samples such as fossils, which are often used to date significant geological events in their vicinity. Fossilized dentin from teeth can und…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This research designed, constructed, and tested an earthworm-inspired robot that can maneuver through narrow spaces in order to search for survivors in rubble or inspect dangerous sites with…
Animal Sciences
First Award
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are important components of the peripheral and central nervous systems. Nematostella vectensis, the starlet sea anemone, is an important model syst…