Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
Scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) is a state-of-the-art optical technique to probe the dielectric properties of materials in the nano-scale. Only requiring mini…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Low birth weight (LBW) offspring have a high risk of developing cardiovascular and renal diseases such as chronic kidney disease and hypertension, which have no preventative measures or cure…
Energy: Physical
Litz wire consists of numerous individual strands of insulated magnet wire, tightly wound around one another to form a woven pattern. This woven pattern is the factor that makes litz wire a…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2 NPs) are an abundant heavy metal stressor frequently discharged as industrial effluent. There has been little research on the effect of TiO2 NPs on aquat…
Biomedical Engineering
Lung cancer accounts for the majority of cancer-related deaths each year. Despite its prevalence, current detection methods can take up to 10 days and cost up to $300 for one screening. The…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The project’s purpose was to code and train an artificial intelligence model, as well as to make an auxiliary device that monitors infants in their sleep to prevent cases of Sudden Infant De…
Materials Science
Organic polymeric materials have attracted extensive attention for optical devices, consumer electronics, and biomedical tools due to their combination of optical, electrical, mechanical, an…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
A rapid, inexpensive, and non-invasive warning mechanism for imminent stroke and epileptic seizures was developed using gold nanoparticle-hydrogel composites. Stroke is the third leading cau…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), or the theory of the strong interaction, states that at the high temperatures and densities produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, nucleons de- confine…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Epilepsy is a very common and devastating neurological disorder that affects 65 million people globally. Electroencephalography (EEG) recording is an essential tool in evaluating seizure act…
Energy: Chemical
One of today’s most pressing healthcare issues is that disease diagnostics are immensely expensive, invasive, painful, and time-consuming. This study developed a paper-based microbial fuel c…
Plant Sciences
Second Award
Plant growth and productivity is greatly affected by climate change, especially in hot and dry climates. Scientists use various methods to study gene families and find genes that respond to…
Biochemistry
The misprocessing of amyloid-ß precursor protein (APP) has been genetically linked to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) as a major causative factor for the disease. Cleavage of APP by ß-site APP clea…
Mathematics
Restoration efforts of wild oysters are often unsuccessful, in that they do not produce a robust population of oysters that are able to successfully reproduce. Furthermore, the dynamics of w…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT, Rendu-Osler-Weber syndrome) is a genetic vascular disorder arising from endothelial cell proliferation and hypervascularization. Patients with HHT…
Physics and Astronomy
In this study, the first chromium aluminum bismuthate is synthesized with a formula of CrAl3Bi2O9 as an orthorhombic single crystal with interesting magnetic properties and potential thermoe…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
With clean water being a requirement for human life, it’s appalling 660 million people lack access to it. Those without access must travel an average of 3.7 miles carrying 20 L of water on t…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Stress has become an epidemic in modern day America, manifesting itself as crippling panic and anxiety most predominantly in younger generations. Stress severely impedes academic performance…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Third Award
Metastatic breast cancer affects more than 250,000 people every year. Interactions of SOX transcription factors (TFs) and MALAT1 lncRNA may induce breast cancer metastasis. This study’s purp…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
In this enterprise, a formalism for describing the outcome of binary-binary chaotic interactions has been developed from computer simulations and mathematical models. In 1899, Henri Poincaré…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Effective epithelialization is essential to the restoration of tissue after a chronic injury to ensure wound healing. Examination of Fidgetin Like-2 (FL2), a novel microtubule depolymerase,…
Biomedical Engineering
Articular cartilage damage is the most common injury in the musculoskeletal system. Since cartilage is avascular, injured tissue cannot spontaneously heal and, if not treated, can lead to os…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) produces useful fuels and chemicals for various commercial industries while combating climate change. The purpose of this experiment is to s…
Materials Science
Periodontitis is the inflammation of gingival tissue and the leading cause of tooth loss. To treat periodontitis, guided bone regeneration (GBR) uses a barrier membrane to separate gingival…
Biochemistry
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is a highly lethal malignancy due to its late stage diagnosis and limited treatment options. Current treatment options are often counteracted by strong…
Environmental Engineering
Second Award
Indoor air pollution is the world’s biggest environmental killer; every year over four million people die prematurely from poor indoor air quality (IAQ). Exposure to poor IAQ can result in m…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
Abscission is the final stage of cytokinesis, the division of the cytoplasm between daughter cells, in which cells are physically separated by severing the intercellular bridge on either sid…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) whether mild, moderate or severe, can have a direct and definite impact on a person’s everyday life. The initial treatment after TBI usually consists of inter…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Insomnia is a condition occurring in 30% of Americans and it is known to significantly impair a person’s cognitive function (Pirone et al., 2016). While the benefits of lithium on memory and…
Animal Sciences
Monk parakeets are multi-decade inhabitants of Brooklyn that contribute to noise pollution; they make loud social calls in their communal nests atop trees, telephone poles, and utility struc…