Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
Despite advancements in modern medicine, malaria continues to have high morbidity and mortality, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa where it is most prevalent. With an incidence of over 250…
Environmental Engineering
In recent years, insurgences of red tide, harmful algal blooms (HAB), caused by concentrates of the dinoflagellate Karenia brevis, have yielded millions of marine wildlife deaths, respirator…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Crouch gait is a complex pattern of movement that affects 150,000 children with conditions such as cerebral palsy, spina bifida, or spinal cord injuries. Crouch gait severely limits mobility…
Biomedical Engineering
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is cancer to the blood and bone marrow, and its incidence spikes in very young children. Early detection and treatment is key to full recovery. Detection h…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Second Award
Every 40 seconds, suicide steals a life—an annual cost of 800,000 people—but clinical assessments for suicide risk and treatment have improved little over the past 50 years. Risk assessments…
Environmental Engineering
The researchers were motivated to do research in this area because of the overheating crisis in India. Since one of the researcher's family is from Sri Lanka, and they're experiencing this s…
Physics and Astronomy
Transfer of data and information through computational systems is oftentimes unsecure. Confidential information and private knowledge from a source to a destination runs the risk of being ob…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Second Award
Methylmercury is a neurotoxin present in fish tissues that permeates the blood-brain barrier (BBB) after consumption. Previous research has shown that methylmercury is harmful to neurons, ca…
Plant Sciences
It is said that the triangle is one of architecture’s strongest shapes, but what about in nature? What shape found in plant xylems is the strongest? Each plant xylem has a unique shape. For…
Materials Science
The demand for Lithium-ion batteries is rapidly increasing due to urgent needs for effective renewable energy storage. Particularly, attention has shifted towards thick electrodes, as they o…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Global warming and the increasing amount of pollutants in our oceans, rivers, and land have been slowly increasing throughout the years. Many of these environmental problems our earth is fac…
Translational Medical Science
Osteoporosis is difficult to diagnose since it does not show any signs or symptoms. Current commercially available options are expensive and must be conducted in a laboratory or clinical set…
Biomedical Engineering
Due to the rapidity of leukemia progression, some patients are not able to obtain a fast diagnosis before safe treatment options become ineffective. In acute myeloid leukemia (AML), myelocyt…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
In our world, there is concern about environmental quality, including the impact of air pollution, and to a lesser extent, ionizing radiation. The Purple Heart Spiderwort (Tradescantia palli…
Biomedical Engineering
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the leading cause of death for toddlers and infants with 15,000 annual deaths, occurs for unknown reasons while sleeping, however is detectable through b…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Solar tracking is a technique used to increase the energy efficiency of a solar panel by orienting solar panels to face the sun as it travels across the sky. Challenges faced by solar tracki…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is an incurable disease that hinders the ability of kidneys to filter the blood effectively and in most cases result in renal failure that force patients to depe…
Systems Software
The up to ninety-minute sessions that many patients spend in Magnetic Resonance Imaging machines, due to slow MRI data acquisition rates lead to blurry images, onsets of claustrophobia, hear…
Animal Sciences
Radiotherapy is a cancer treatment that causes an excess of free radicals, which can induce a variety of chronic and degenerative diseases. Curcumin and piperine, potent antioxidants, exhibi…
Embedded Systems
Cars companies today are investing millions on car safety techniques but little to none on what would happen if a car crash is inevitable. Car crashes currently cost $1 trillion per year in…
Physics and Astronomy
By using orbital period, spectrophotometry, and bayesian inferential tests, we examined the orbital periods and photometry of one exoplanet in the HD star system: 189733 b. Through the const…
Environmental Engineering
Textile waste is currently the second-largest global pollution source—as staggering amounts of waste are incinerated and buried in landfills, the process of decomposition leaches toxic chemi…
Embedded Systems
With the advent of driverless cars, distance sensing radars have become prominent. Can the user “feel” the distance and navigate? This project explores advanced technology for the visually i…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
The cocktail party problem renders conversation difficult for hard-of-hearing individuals in multi-speaker environments. Current hearing aids cannot amplify the primary speaker's voice alone…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Anxiety disorders affect 284 million people worldwide, yet anxiety diagnostic and intervention tools remain largely inaccessible, unaffordable, and stigmatized. Thus, there is an urgent need…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
The effects of wide binary star systems on the formation and evolution of exoplanets are relatively unknown. A large portion of exoplanets reside in wide binary systems, so fully understandi…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Antibiotic pollution in soils and groundwater is one of the world’s most pressing problems. There are 1.4µg of antibiotics per-liter of freshwater and 125,000 tons of antibiotics polluted ev…
Chemistry
Petroleum based non-biodegradable plastics have caused serious environmental and ecological problems globally. It is vital to develop sustainable ways to produce environmentally-friendly bio…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The law of conservation of energy states that the total energy of an isolated system is constant, energy can be transformed from one form to another but can neither be created nor destroyed.…
Materials Science
Carbon dioxide is one of the most discussed atmospheric gases due to its greenhouse effect on global climate. It is well known to trap the sun's thermal radiation and raise the temperature o…