Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects 10 million people worldwide. Current diagnostic measures consist of ambiguous surveys or are extremely invasive, and inc…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
When exploring the potential for life in the Universe, a star system’s habitability depends on both its internal structure, which sets up the building blocks for life, and its external envir…
Chemistry
Petroleum hydrocarbon contamination is an outstanding environmental issue that causes damage to ecosystems and public health. Activation of carbon-hydrogen (C-H) bonds is central to the chem…
Environmental Engineering
As climate change transforms the world, it is essential to identify and counter global threats to the environment and its people - especially in the case of wildfires. On the rise over the p…
Translational Medical Science
Blood testing for target protein concentrations remains the number one way to diagnose and monitor chronic diseases like arthritis, heart failure, and thyroid-related conditions. However, bl…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
In the US alone, there are currently 17.8 million affected by Atopic Dermatitis (AD), commonly known as Eczema. It is characterized by itching and skin inflammation. AD patients are at highe…
Materials Science
Polyurethane foam, a material valued across countless industries for its high performance and versatility, is composed of hazardous, nonrenewable petrochemicals that continuously off-gas int…
Embedded Systems
Second Award
In the United States alone, there are one million people who have Parkinson's disease. There is no known cure for Parkinson's and very few treatments out there that target the disease's symp…
Engineering Mechanics
Second Award
Coastal erosion is responsible for the loss of $500 million in property and 80,000 acres of land annually in the U.S. Prevailing responses take the form of “conventional structures” such as…
Systems Software
Stock market forecasting refers to the prediction of the price of any given stock within a desired time frame and has been a highly researched topic in recent years due to the difficulty of…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The robotics and mechanical field are expected to replace humans in tedious jobs, performing research, and hazardous tasks in the near future. Oceanic cartography, deep-sea exploration, and…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Second Award
Progressive neurodegenerative disorders that are defined when a protein, called tau, builds up abnormally in a patient’s brain are called tauopathies. Breakthrough research has led to the id…
Biochemistry
Despite technological advances in biofuel viability, there are major flaws of this type of alternative source of energy. Implementation of ethanol is important, because substitution of biofu…
Materials Science
Drug delivery systems are vessels for the controlled release of a therapeutic agent. These systems show promising results for their administration in drugs related to cancer treatment, but t…
Plant Sciences
The presence of copper in water is easily overlooked and not addressed. If this rate of negligence is continued, it can have devastating consequences on the environment. Many methods to remo…
Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
60% of deaths worldwide are caused by various chronic inflammatory diseases that vary from arthritis to inflammatory bowel disease. Past studies have revealed that certain chronic inflammato…
Animal Sciences
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration mandates that Red 40 must be listed by name on food and product labels. Red 40 is made from plant, animal, or mineral sources. Red 40 has been linked to…
Plant Sciences
In this experiment my goal was to see how the development of Phaseolus vulgaris seeds would be affected by disinfecting them prior to germination with vinegar, lemon juice, aloe vera juice,…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Aging is traditionally thought to be caused by complex and interacting factors such as DNA methylation. The traditional formula of DNA methylation aging is based on linear models and few wor…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Upper ocean heat content (OHC) in advance of a hurricane is generally superior to pre-storm sea surface temperature (SST) for indicating favorable regions for hurricane intensification and m…
Animal Sciences
In this pandemic, blue light has become a common part of everyday life through LEDs and computer monitors. The researcher hypothesized that a severe exposure to blue light before a Traumatic…
Plant Sciences
Microbially-unsafe water is a major concern particularly in developing countries. After three years of testing natural water purification systems for these underprivileged areas, the objecti…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
First Award
Mutated PTEN induced kinase 1 (PINK1) is linked to Parkinson’s disease, predisposing an individual to neurodegeneration. Interestingly, the FOXO, AOP, PNR, and TOR transcription factors have…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the United States. Death in prostate cancer patients is often related to medical conditions other than prostate cancer itself. Hence, it i…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
According to the National Cancer Institute, over 170,000 people in the United States are affected by some type of blood cancer accounting for approximately 3% of all cancer types diagnosed i…
Biochemistry
Multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease that damages the neuroimmune system, is caused by the degeneration of myelin sheath, an insulating fiber located on a neuron's axon, which leads to the red…
Translational Medical Science
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders, affecting over 10 million people worldwide. Medications for Parkinson’s are usually ineffective because patien…
Environmental Engineering
In this experiment, we will be conducting an examination based on adding distillation to our preceding systems of water filtration. In doing this, we will be allowed to examine which method…
Biomedical Engineering
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) hinders the ability of kidneys to filter the blood effectively and in most cases result in renal failure that forces patients to depend on a blood dialysis machi…
Animal Sciences
Avian rotavirus and picornavirus are among the leading causes of gastrointestinal illnesses in poultry species around the world, and therefore, entail major economic loss for the global live…