Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Organic biomarker analysis has been an essential tool for reconstructing the evolution of Earth’s climate, such as the last ice age. However, accurate reconstruction of Earth’s temperatures…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The clinical translation of CRISPR-Cas9 therapeutics is limited by the risk of unintended "off-target" mutations, which can cause errors like oncogenic chromosomal alterations. Current compu…
Animal Sciences
Maintaining healthy honey bee (Apis mellifera) populations is critical for biodiversity and agricultural sustainability. However, neonicotinoid pesticides such as imidacloprid pose significa…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Eutrophication poses serious threats to coastal ecosystems globally, highlighting the urgent need for innovative and sustainable wastewater treatment solutions under a changing climate. This…
Animal Sciences
Third Award
Honeybees serve as vital pollinators that contribute to global food security and biodiversity. However, their populations are declining due to various factors, necessitating novel approaches…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alzheimer's Disease(AD) affects more than 6 million people in the US, by causing degeneration of the brain cells, deficiency of cognition and mobility, and even death. As aging progresses, s…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Lung cancer is one of the most significant causes of death among all diseases. Specifically, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for 87% of this daunting disease. Single-cell RNA-seq…
Embedded Systems
Second Award
Data from the ILO reports that 337 million work accidents occur annually, with 2.3 million of such events resulting in fatalities. Though regulations exist to uphold worker safety, these sta…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is one of the most lethal and aggressive brain cancers in humans. This project investigated the efficacy of a potential therapy for GBM-The Gliatrap. The Gliatr…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
First Award
Background: Distinctive roles for T-lymphocyte:Bacteroides fragilis cross-talk occurs in dampening peanut allergic responses. Butyrate is key to B.fragilis regulation of immune homeostasis.…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The constant increase in world population raises serious questions regarding our capacity to provide an adequate food source. In addition, the increasing demand for food, especially animal-b…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Children with cleft palate often suffer from speech disorders. Children need guidance from professional speech therapists to teach them to pronounce correctly. Speech therapists and similar…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
Background: Peanut allergies are an epidemic with no cure. Microbiome alterations favoring Bacteroides fragilis can dampen a peanut allergy. To clinically translate prior findings, a complex…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The genetic disorder preeclampsia is characterized by severe hypertension and proteinuria during pregnancy. Our project investigated the role of lncRNA (long non-coding RNA) in the genetic p…
Physics and Astronomy
The neutron has opened a great sum of doors into the world of technological development by providing new forms of clean power and spectroscopy. In order to supply the required neutrons for t…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
BACKGROUND: Peanut allergy therapies, such as EpiPens, treat anaphylactic reactions, but do not cure allergies. Previously, altering a monomicrobial microbiome with Bacteroides fragilis damp…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
1,2-propanediol is a common de-icing fluid used by airports to prepare planes for takeoff during cold weather. Airports can discharge glycol into nearby bodies of water. As an effluent, glyc…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Urinary tract infections are one of the most common pediatric infections; however, the national guidelines from the AAP lack indications for treating infants ages 0-60 days. 441 urine cultur…
The experiment was based on the effects of airport and residential runoff on a freshwater ecosystem. The basis of the testing was to connect potential sources of pollution to a cyanobacteria…
The engineering objective of this project was to design, fabricate, test, validate, and solidify a viable solution for generating and maintaining voltage to power marine emergency systems. T…
Biomedical Engineering
Common antibiotics are becoming less effective as bacteria are acquiring an increased resistance. A solution to this problem may lie in plant derived allelopathic molecules (allelomolecules)…
The purpose of this experiment was to test and to examine how the design of a natural aquifer can be effective in filtering run off from roads in order to make it less harmful to the ecosyst…
Microbiology
Tidal lock is a phenomenon that gravitationally “locks” the orientation of an orbiting body toward the other body. A good example is the Moon facing the Earth always with the same face. Moon…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Scientists looking to familiarize themselves with a new field are often forced to read out-of-date books or spend hours poring over research papers, slowing the research process. The purpose…