Microbiology
Third Award
Although the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is researchers’ primary target, more conserved non-structural proteins (NSPs) of SARS-CoV-2 can be better targets if sufficiently immunogenic. The hypot…
Biomedical Engineering
My research this year was devoted to creating a non-invasive method to efficiently detect Bronchial Carcinoma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, and Emphysema unaccompanied by deleterio…
Biochemistry
First Award
There is a significant global need for tissue engineering scaffolds that are comparable to human tissue. Interestingly, the plant kingdom presents a striking similarity to human tissues, esp…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) has been connected to changes in liver function, immunity issues, thyroid disease, and kidney and testicular cancer. Due to these effects, PFOA is banned for us…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
Features with rare states, such as rare genetic variants and low frequency amino acid mismatches, pose a surrounding their role in predicting outcomes such as disease phenotype. Bins of rare…
Animal Sciences
Because of the recent Spotted Lanternfly outbreak of September 2014, in the United States’ Mid-East, an indirectly concerning threat has been posed on the sustainability of traditional envir…
Chemistry
Second Award
Biodiesel fuel is an environmentally friendly replacement for petroleum-based diesel fuel. Energy-dense algae are more suitable feedstocks for biodiesel than current food crops and animal fa…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Tetracycline is an antibiotic that treats bacterial infections by acting as protein synthesis inhibitor through disruption of bacterial translation. Overuse of tetracycline has led to its re…
Microbiology
This paper is an exploration of the inhibitory effects of Tea Tree and Thieves® Essential Oils on Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilm growth on Borosilicate glass and Stainless Steel washers.…
Microbiology
Thraustochytrids are common marine protists that live throughout the ocean, but most notably in coral mucus. Because they produce high amounts of polyunsaturated fatty acids such as DHA, the…
Systems Software
Third Award
Cybersecurity is a major problem in today’s world, and malware detection is critical defensive approach. Although numerous antivirus programs exist, the majority of them detect only exact or…
Systems Software
Modern applications such as voice recognition rely on the ability to compare signals to pre-recorded ones to classify them. However, this comparison typically needs to ignore differences due…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Chloroquine (CQ), a toxic agent, is an anti-malarial drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus. Recently, the former Trump administration controversially promo…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
Air pollution (AP) contains many toxins that collectively harm nearly every organ in the body, and is a key risk factor for many chronic diseases. Aside from its toxic actions, AP may alter…
Biomedical Engineering
Second Award
216,262,500. That’s the number of steps an average human takes over their lifetime, yet the shoes that humans use for this have not evolved over time and are found to have major flaws such a…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The COVID-19 Pandemic is our biggest challenge with already over 100 million infections and 2.4 million deaths globally. Employers are following CDC guidelines by creating mask mandates, req…
Animal Sciences
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollination is responsible for approximately 80% of all cultivated crops. Unfortunately, the latest reports suggest losses of 30-50% of all bee colonies in the US.…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Second Award
Chronic sleep deprivation (CSD), a result of consistent sleep loss, is a global concern in more than half of adults worldwide. Research has shown that people with CSD are more susceptible to…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
Despite major advances in immunosuppression, thousands of transplanted organs are still rejected, endangering the lives of many patients. Traditional approaches to understanding transplant r…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Hydrocephalus is a neurological condition characterized by a buildup of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) within the ventricles of the brain. This CSF accumulation results in the dilation of cerebra…
Biochemistry
An environmentally friendly solution to utilize fruit wastes as new raw materials by sustaining the fruit seeds for therapeutic use to inhibit certain bacteria due to their bioactivity and c…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Nutrition has been demonstrated to have a number of effects on development and overall health. As such, we sought to investigate the effects of the consumption of several nutritional supplem…
Biomedical Engineering
We propose a novel approach to detect arrhythmias in Phonocardiograms (PCGs). Typically, many arrhythmia conditions are unknown until a patient is suggested an ECG/EKG test. This method, des…
Systems Software
Third Award
While computers play an increasingly important role in every aspect of our lives, their inability to understand what tasks users are physically performing makes a wide range of applications,…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Marine sponges (phylum Porifera) have the important job of controlling bacterial populations in coral reefs. The recent abundance of marine microplastics, however, which often harbor a micro…
Engineering Mechanics
First Award
Agricultural irrigation wastage, especially from inefficient infrastructure in developing nations, is among the leading causes of the global water shortage epidemic, which affects an estimat…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Second Award
Cancer immunotherapy has led to vast improvements in long-term survival for patients with cancers like melanoma. However, the low response rate of immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy li…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Safe and precise robot-assisted intervention using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guidance requires motors that are fully MRI-compatible using no metallic or magnetic materials to ensure n…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Energy-dense algae are more suitable feedstocks for biodiesel and circumvent many of the problems posed by current biodiesel feedstocks, such as the requirement for arable land. Nannochlorop…
Microbiology
Lycorma delicatula (Spotted Lanternfly) has become prominent in the United States causing environmental and economic damages. It damages trees, including peach and apple trees, and crops, su…