Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
Excessive hemorrhage is a leading cause of mortality for civilians and military personnel under 50 years of age. The current treatment of donor derived platelet transfusion, is riddled with…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Access to clean water has been a global challenge since long-term exposure to pollutants such as metalloid, arsenic (As(II) and heavy metal, chromium (Cr(VI)) have detrimental health effects…
Animal Sciences
Introduction: It is known that mechanosensory halteres, the reduced hindwings of flies, send information to the brain about wing-steering, head movement, and take-off stabilization. Most fli…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Artificial light at night (ALAN) has been a growing environmental concern. In Northwest Ohio, commercial greenhouses and human development near recreational bodies of water, such as Lake Eri…
Environmental Engineering
During the pandemic, the surge in production and usage of single-use plastics known as personal protective equipment (PPE) include gloves, which are commonly manufactured with polyvinyl chlo…
Physics and Astronomy
Second Award
The identity and behavior of the invisible dark matter, which constitutes most of the mass in the universe, is a central yet unresolved question at both the cosmological and quantum scales.…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Neurodegenerative diseases are one of the highest causes of death within the world. The WHO reported in 2016 that Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia were the 5th highest cause of death interna…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
Much of the exoplanet transit data from the Kepler space telescope remains unanalyzed, especially in the search for habitability. To enable the investigation of Kepler exoplanets without the…
Embedded Systems
The goal of this engineering paper was to design a functional multi-modal 2-bit photonic adder. The basis of the design of the 2-bit photonic adder circuit was the use of integrated optical…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Vestibular schwannomas, also known as acoustic neuromas, result from an overproduction of schwann cells on the eighth cranial nerve. This benign brain tumor affects hearing and balance. Data…
Embedded Systems
Eighty-four percent of female runners experience harassment. This ranges from catcalling to stalking. Female runners are also at risk for being sexually assaulted, attacked, or murdered. Whi…
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this project was to modify the Brewbaker and Kwack (BK) pollen tube culture medium for the Cucurbita pepo species. A modified BK medium would allow for in vitro instead of in…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Ulcerative Colitis (UC) is a disease hallmarked by continuous inflammation along the gastrointestinal tract, which is largely the consequence of autoimmunity. Its prevalence continues to spr…
Chemistry
Everyone experiences the universal problem that limits food creation, food breaks. A prime example is the succulent burrito, filled with a pristine combination of fixings, that splits asunde…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
A guaranteed and comprehensive response to medical needs is a key deterministic factor of patient outcome. The current COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this need due to the number of people…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Recent advances show that the 14-3-3zeta protein is a unique regulator of IL-17A signal transduction. IL-17A signal transduction triggers two, 14-3-3zeta-TRAF5 and 14-3-3zeta-TRAF6-dependent…
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this research was to determine how Lemna minor could supplant commercial fertilizers and result in lower nitrate and phosphate levels in runoff. A null hypothesis states that…
Biomedical Engineering
Abstract: Stress Urinary Incontinence, also known as SUI, is the leakage of urine by vigorous activities such as coughing and sneezing when pressure is exerted on the urethra. SUI is prevale…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Recent approaches in cancer immunotherapy revolve around encapsulating immunostimulatory molecules within nanoparticles and using systemic delivery to deliver them into the tumor, generating…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Access to clean water is a major challenge in many developing counties partly due to municipal and industrial pollution. Thus, developing low-cost technologies to provide clean water is vita…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
The future of food production involves physiological growing adaptions to nutrients that will increase the nutritional value of crops. This study tests the ability of lettuce biofortificatio…
Engineering Mechanics
This project examines if an object supported by a wing structure filled with hexagons will be more mass efficient than solid filled support structure. Aircraft are a large source of greenhou…
Translational Medical Science
Third Award
Annually, about 15,000 people in the US are diagnosed with sarcoma. Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) and osteosarcoma (OS) are the most common sarcomas in children and adolescent young adults. Surviva…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
Investigations indicate that diabetic patients with myocardial infarctions (MI) have an increased risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) post-MI. In diabetic MI, blood hemoglobin (Hb) rises, whic…
Plant Sciences
Third Award
Acidic soil severely inhibits legume nodulation and devastates crop yields worldwide. Among the many phytohormones that regulate nodulation, indole-3-acetic acid is known to improve the nodu…
Translational Medical Science
This research study addresses the issue of vaccine hesitancy in adolescents. The research questions of this study include: To what extent does an adolescent’s experience with COVID-19 influe…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Quality control mechanisms exist throughout the gene expression pathway to ensure the accurate transmission of genetic information. Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a translation-depend…
Plant Sciences
Hydroponic growing in controlled environment horticulture has been an increasingly used method of produce production around the world. Its many methods integrate sustainability and growth ef…
Physics and Astronomy
The bassoon itself was invented in the 17th century, however its predecessors were seen throughout the Middle Ages. In comparison to modern, objectively cheaper and easier instruments such a…
Biomedical Engineering
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a major cause of death (~160 / day) and disability in the US. Autoregulation (AR) maintains the cerebral blood flow (CBF) despite changes in cerebral perfusio…