Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
Organisms detect sensory stimuli through peripheral neurons and transmit the information to cortical brain regions for processing: creating an internal neural map of the external environment…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Third Award
Peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) is a rare and aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma resulting from clonal proliferation of mature post-thymic T-cells. The mechanisms behind PTCL development and…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Over 1 million deaths annually can be attributed to suicide, yet no biomarkers exist. This study investigated blood-brain barrier (BBB) disruption by examining claudin-5 (CLDN5) epigenetic a…
Animal Sciences
Third Award
Alzheimer's disease, the most prevalent form of dementia affecting over 24 million people worldwide, is characterized by cognitive decline and progressive neurodegeneration; this is mainly d…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Mucin-1 MUC1 is a high molecular weight glycoprotein that can overexpress, causing various cancers and playing a significant role in tumor progression and metastasis. Developing targeted the…
Physics and Astronomy
Second Award
The centennial Ising model, which was initially proposed to explain ferromagnetism and phase transitions, has become a central pillar of statistical physics and a powerful tool in diverse ap…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Second Award
In recent years, generative machine learning algorithms have been successful in designing innovative drug-like molecules. SMILES is a sequence-like language used in most effective drug desig…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Epinephrine Auto-Injectors (EAI) are life-saving medical devices used to treat anaphylaxis, a severe allergic reaction. However, they have low successful administration rates. The EpiPen is…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Retinoblastoma (Rb) is a form of rapidly developing retinal cancer, and like many cancers, metastasizes via the release of lipid-encased extracellular vesicles (EVs) which create desirable c…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Smoke develops in the early stages of a wildfire and is vital to early prevention, but a new detection method is needed because smoke tends to be challenging to spot. This study used an imag…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
In light of the recent demonstration of breakeven on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) using indirect drive, interest in future indirect drive facilities has increased. A promising approa…
Materials Science
Nanomedicine is a rapidly growing field, however limited understanding of molecular mechanisms hinders the development of next generation gene-targeting drugs. Ethidium bromide (EB) is a com…
Translational Medical Science
Decidualization is a key process in the endometrium, facilitating embryo implantation through morphological changes of the endometrium. Dysregulation of this process is prevalent in individu…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Prion proteins are associated with neurodegenerative diseases, causing normal cellular proteins to fold abnormally in a rapidly progressive manner. Studying the genes required for yeast prio…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Patients with mobility issues or lower limb injuries often require caregiver assistance. Lower extremity exoskeletons can ease this burden. However, the current models lack terrain adjusting…
Plant Sciences
Second Award
To address the depletion of seagrass, this study aimed to understand seagrass conservation approaches by investigating the impact of varying salinity levels and temperature fluctuations on t…
Mathematics
Legendre's Formula and Fine's Theorem use number theory to analyze combinatorics functions. Legendre's formula finds the exponent of a prime (p) dividing the factorial of any integer (n); Fi…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The increasing wildfire frequency and size have posed growing challenges for re-establishing plants after wildfires, making the study of post-wildfire plant regrowth essential for creating e…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
In this study, I use data science principles to analyze pesticide use and Parkinson's Disease (PD) incidence, internationally. Countries were clustered using DBSCANs, the k-means method, and…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Global soil carbon stock contains more than twice the amount of carbon found in Earth’s atmosphere. Soil respiration (Rs) is the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) from soil microorganisms and…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
The fight to end global hunger in a sustainable fashion has been a struggle. There are still few agricultural technologies aiding the situation. Using the bacterial endophyte Pseudomonas psy…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Electricity production is one of the greatest contributors to CO2 emissions, with its utilizations ranging from the heating of households to the charging of electronic devices. Piezoelectric…
Translational Medical Science
Currently, colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world, with it contributing to over 10% of all cancers. With colorectal cancer being a significant contributor to the wo…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
Globally, over 2.1 billion people, close to 30% of the world population, are overweight or obese. The consumption of calorically-dense, palatable foods for pleasure, a phenomenon known as he…
Microbiology
Atherosclerosis is a cardiovascular disease that causes plaque buildup within the arterial inner lining, and 42.1% of adults with no other known heart disorder suffer from the illness. Ather…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
Ransomware attacks render data unusable and demand a ransom in order to restore data integrity. These attacks cost billions of dollars every year at the individual, industrial, and national…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Alzheimer’s is difficult to treat, particularly due to inability of prospective treatments to cross the impermeable blood-brain-barrier(BBB). Neurodegeneration is exacerbated by Aß-aggregate…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Adolescence is a period of transition from childhood to adulthood characterized by significant socio-emotional, physical, and physiological changes, along with physiological reactivity to em…
Biomedical Engineering
Second Award
Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury, which affects nearly 200,000 patients annually in the United States, can be accompanied by joint bleeding but the effects of whole blood components a…
Microbiology
Mycobacteria remain a prominent problem, especially in developing areas in South Africa and India. Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes the pulmonary disease tuberculosis (TB) and is responsibl…