Environmental Engineering
First Award
Wildlife-vehicle conflict poses injury/mortality risks to both drivers and wildlife. Eqwis detects animals approaching roads and alerts drivers through intelligent road signs, encouraging dr…
Microbiology
Second Award
Antibiotic resistance is one of the leading challenges to public health today, and a primary contributor to the rapid rise of resistance is plasmids, which facilitate the spread of multi-dru…
Translational Medical Science
Early detection is the key to preventing arrhythmia-related complications. However, developing countries do not have the infrastructure, educated personnel, or devices to screen for arrhythm…
Microbiology
Streptococcus mutans causes an accumulation of reactive oxygen species in the oral cavity, damaging tissue as salivary antioxidants are depleted. I hypothesized that a hibiscus treatment wou…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSC) utilize fluorescent dyes in a transparent material to absorb diffuse radiation in the ultraviolet region and re-emit it as visible light. The emitted li…
Embedded Systems
Third Award
Surplus nitrogen's runoff causes numerous environmental hazards, such as algae blooms, which endangers marine wildlife. Currently, farmers use 60-cent single-use test strips (returns qualita…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Wildfires have caused devastation across the American-West during summer months, eradicating entire belts of natural plant growth and resulting in immense loss of life and property. Furtherm…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Mental health challenges, especially depression, are a major issue that impacts people globally. Combined with the prevalent use of social media, this issue is amplified and needs to be miti…
Biomedical Engineering
Cerebral palsy (CP) is a cognitive disorder in which a child's brain cannot send direct messages to a body's muscles, resulting in impaired motor functions. It is a common childhood disabili…
Translational Medical Science
Second Award
The current practice of treating cancer with radiation, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy is a one-size-fits-all approach, in which patients with the same type and stage of cancer receive the…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Radiation is a silent force that has and continues to affect the lives of those living around nuclear power. Calibrating previously developed custom imaging algorithms through Monte-Carlo N-…
Mathematics
Third Award
My research deepens connections between the two seemingly very different mathematical fields of algebraic combinatorics and algebraic geometry. In particular, I focus on the Bruhat order, a…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Fourth Award
The current mainstream idea for oxygen production on Mars has inefficiencies and produces the dangerous byproduct of hydrogen. I have developed a system that offers a resource-efficient alte…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
People with hearing and speech impairments use sign language as their main form of communication, but it possesses the disadvantage where they cannot communicate with people without sign lan…
Biochemistry
Almost half of the pregnancies around the globe are unplanned. The associated risks related to unexpected pregnancy include both physical and mental stress. A wide range of contraceptive met…
Plant Sciences
The shape and size of a plant’s seed impact how well it is able to scatter and move over time, notably in changing environmental circumstances. As the environment changes, the survival of th…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are astrophysical explosions that release more energy in a few seconds than the sun releases in its entire 10 billion year lifetime. This project studies short-durati…
Physics and Astronomy
First Award
Astigmatism is a cylindrical imperfection of the optical system of the eye that normally should be spherical. The optometry of astigmatism, so-called subjective refraction, involves multiple…
Biomedical Engineering
First Award
In protein sequences—as there are 61 sense codons but only 20 standard amino acids—most amino acids are encoded by more than one codon. Although such synonymous codons do not alter the encod…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This experiment examined changes in total annual precipitation and average annual temperature and their impacts on the natural carbon sequestration of Pinus Ponderosa. Tree core samples were…
Translational Medical Science
Artificial intelligence is becoming a more widely utilized technology in the healthcare industry to improve predictability and consistency. However, this powerful technology does come with s…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Audio streaming has become more prevalent in daily life through music, phone calls, and online meetings, among other applications. However, effectively streaming high-quality audio poses a c…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In the previous decade, cyanobacteria blooms in rivers have grown in both intensity and frequency due to climate change and water pollution, which are results of human activity. These blooms…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
Color Vision Deficiency is the most common genetic disability, affecting over 400 million people in the world, and currently has no cure. There are attempts to mitigate the effect of color v…
Chemistry
Nuclear waste disposal is a global concern. The problem of nuclear waste disposal is growing and threatens the environment, people, and future generations as well. As we continue to release…
Translational Medical Science
Colorectal cancer(CRC) ranks third in occurrence and second in mortality among all cancers. Current CRC identification methods are often ineffective due to the invasiveness of such procedure…
Engineering Mechanics
Second Award
Today, when we drive cars there is no indication of dangerous road conditions that could cause issues such as hydroplaning. Rain is substantially more dangerous than the other conditions bec…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
Designing synthetic genes for heterologous expression is a keystone of biotechnology. In protein sequences—as there are 61 sense codons but only 20 standard amino acids—most amino acids are…
Chemistry
Many environmental troubles stem from excess of Nitrogen (N), for example, the runoff of surplus N from soil causes algae blooms and endangers marine wildlife. To deal with this, farmers cur…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Second Award
Ingesting marine biotoxins such as domoic acid (DA), a neurotoxin produced by the diatom Pseudo-nitzschia spp., and paralytic shellfish poison (PSP), a neurotoxic byproduct of the saxitoxin-…