Technology Enhances the Arts
Language barriers cause limitations including isolation and scarcity of job opportunities. This study introduced a novel user interface (UI) prototype for a machine translator, intended to s…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
First Award
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) has neither satisfactory nor equitably accessible treatments. Current research emphasizes inflammation, notably age-related elevation of microglial TNF-a, in driving…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Dysregulated metabolism is a hallmark of cancer progression yet exactly how cancer cells vary their metabolic program during tumorigenesis remains unknown. Moreover, metabolism is highly dyn…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Current radiotherapy treatment for abdominal and pelvic cancers typically results in some form of acute gastrointestinal (GI) toxicity in patients. X-ray irradiation to deep-seated abdominal…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Eutrophication affects 65% of coastal and 53% of freshwater regions in the US but no scalable cyanobacterial degradation methods exist. Piezocatalysis harnesses mechanical energy to produce…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
The annual migration of millions of people within or between countries can create resource strain, tighten job markets, and fuel political realignment. One factor that can play a role in sha…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The operation of aircraft has numerous impacts on the world; it negatively impacts climate change, and it creates noise/air pollution. Electroaerodynamic (EAD) propulsion provides us with a…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Diabetes is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Loss of functional pancreatic ß-cell mass is key to both type 1 (T1D) and type 2 (T2D) diabetes. Islet macrophages have importa…
Embedded Systems
Second Award
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 2.2 billion people have some form of visual impairment, half of which could be improved by more affordable solutions. My project attempts to…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
The Western Pacific Warm Pool (WPWP) is a crucial component of global climate and has direct influence in the modulation of heat throughout the global ocean. Changes in geochemistry in the v…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
It is estimated that by 2050, an alarming 33 billion tons of plastic waste will be on the Earth, overshadowing the Empire State Building by 105,000 times. Since 1960, the recycling rate has…
Microbiology
Second Award
Francisella tularensis, a gram-negative bacterium, is the causative agent of tularemia, a severe zoonotic disease which is highly lethal even with minimal exposure. Francisella is recognized…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Synthetic dyes used by the fashion industry pollute aquatic ecosystems and contribute to the bioaccumulation of toxic compounds in organisms. Natural dyes are alternatives to synthetics whos…
Physics and Astronomy
Pulsars are highly magnetized, rotating neutron stars that serve as the most precise clocks in the universe. Millisecond pulsars (MSPs), which have a spin period of less than 10 ms, are espe…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Second Award
High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) remains the fifth leading cause of cancer death among women. It has recently been demonstrated that stimulator-of-interferon genes (STING) is highly…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The second most common skin cancer, Squamous Cell Carcinoma, is a persistent problem that threatens the lives of thousands, yearly. Cellular reproduction is a factor allowing these cancerous…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Third Award
Breast cancer, annually affecting over 2.3 million people worldwide, is targeted in this study through the epichaperome, a network of proteins including heat shock protein 90 (HSP90). PUH71,…
Mathematics
Knot theory, counting a knot invariant for a knot L has been long studied. Using an algebraic structure called quandle, we calculate the knot invariant, in other words coloring of the knot.…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Thousands of high schools across the country are grappling with the issue of cell phone usage and its effect on students’ mental health, and many have implemented bans on cell phone use for…
Microbiology
Flocculation occurs during fermentation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The cells aggregate into dense masses that sink, separating cells from alcohol products easier, due to the binding betwee…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
Invasive Rhodophyta (red macroalgae) species Dasysiphonia japonica & Gracilaria are threatening environmental and human health by outcompeting native seaweeds and releasing toxins from harmf…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Despite the Earth’s abundance of salt water, water access remains one of the greatest global challenges, underscoring the urgent need to improve technologies for desalination treatment. Elec…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Third Award
Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva(FOP) is an extremely rare and debilitating bone disorder that affects 0.00005% of the population. The defining characteristic of FOP is severe heterotop…
Translational Medical Science
The neurodegenerative disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), is characterized by progressive motor neuron (MN) degeneration leading to muscular atrophy (Scaricamazza et al., 2021). Th…
Mathematics
Fourth Award
Hensel’s Lemma is the foundation of p-adic number theory and, as discovered in this study, a possible way to revolutionize the math behind elliptic curve cryptography. It works by lifting a…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Music streaming has enabled music choice to transition from a collective social listening experience to a personalized one. This research, for the first time, relates the two facets of music…
Plant Sciences
Third Award
TALE homeodomains (TALE-HD) are a large class of genes encoding proteins that act as transcription factors in eukaryotes to regulate major developmental and life cycle changes. Their ancestr…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
The increasing prevalence of dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease (AD), has prompted urgent exploration of interventions for patients, particularly those with Mild Cognitive Impairment…
Biomedical Engineering
Glaucoma, the second leading cause of blindness, affects more than 80 million people worldwide. This disease is asymptomatic, so the patient is unaware until vision impact has started. A sig…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Current reforestation practices are limited, with many failing to meet the necessary rates required for forest expansion. In view that commonly used multicriteria analyses introduce subjecti…