Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Ethanol detecting proton-exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) have been growing in prevalence over the past few decades due to its characteristic to detect alcohol with high accuracy for DU…
Biochemistry
Dry skin is an issue that affects millions of individuals, yet moisturizers have varying degrees of effectiveness due to the many different formulas. Most common ingredients in dry skin spec…
Environmental Engineering
The purpose is to eliminate microplastic (MPs) from cattle feed by improving the extraction device from last year to remove MPs from cattle (bovine) feed using dry removal. It was hypothesiz…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project aims to identify and quantify the causal effects of key completion design parameters on shale oil production in the Permian Basin in Texas. This causal inference analysis seeks…
Embedded Systems
Despite modern agriculture boasting a profound amount of environmental data, there is a lack of tools that provide direct insights into a plant's physiological state. Traditional plant monit…
Materials Science
Various factors, such as inflation, tariffs, deforestation, disease, and increasing manufacturing costs, have led to scarcity and high material costs in recent years. Annually, billions of p…
Animal Sciences
Anti-apoptotic B-cell leukemia/lymphoma (Bcl-2) proteins are overexpressed in around half of human cancers, linked to tumorigenesis, chemotherapy resistance, and poor prognosis. Effectively…
Chemistry
Acetaminophen is a widely used non-opioid analgesic and antipyretic medication, with over sixty million weekly consumers in the U.S. alone. Unfortunately, its toxicity is a leading cause of…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
To bridge the gap between the increasing demand in the STEM workforce and the mathematician shortage, we constructed a children's book that combined the definition and applications of a comp…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project was meant to assess the public health risk posed by arsenic (As) in Texas drinking water on a local and statewide scale, find out if climate was affecting As concentrations stat…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics have become a prevalent global environmental issue, with an estimated 75 trillion microplastics in the oceans today. MPs pose dangers to wildlife and cause serious health issue…
Plant Sciences
Microplastics, originating from various sources, threaten ecosystems such as the Gulf of Mexico, where they accumulate in food chains and impact vast wildlife & humans. On the other hand, mi…
Systems Software
Approximately 10% of people in the world are legally blind & 2% of those are totally blind. This can lead to accidents happening in this population's everyday life. Current tools available t…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Globally, health issues such as antibiotic-resistant infections and cancer become increasingly severe; however, the extensive time and cost required for drug development impose a significant…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Since the late 1970s, the Arctic has experienced a temperature rise more than three times the global average, leading to accelerated thawing of permafrost. This thawing initiates thermokarst…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Tau protein aggregation is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), disrupting neuronal function and impairing synaptic signaling. The clinical efficacy of tau aggregation inhibitors like TRx…
Embedded Systems
In recent years, radar technology has gained significant interest in its application in detecting vital signs. It has the potential to play a crucial role in identifying obstructive sleep ap…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of various anti-plaque toothpaste formulations in reducing plaque, with a particular focus on comparing whitening and non-whitening products. P…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Across the world, hundreds of millions of people are affected by a global inability to meet construction demands. In particular, widespread infrastructure inadequacy that will reach $100 tri…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Each year, over 10,000,000 people lose their lives to cancer. Many current cancer therapies cause deleterious side effects for patients and have an inordinate cost, ultimately leading to pat…
Systems Software
A critical goal in robotics and autonomy is to teach robots to adapt to real-world collaborative tasks, particularly in automatic assembly. The ability of a robot to understand the original…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
AutoMates presents a novel intelligent solution for multiple intelligent agents to self-learn performing complex, hard-to-optimize, and unpredictable tasks. It does this using a) a novel ite…
Animal Sciences
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether bacteria found in livestock at stock shows are developing resistance to common antibiotics. This research aims to provide insights into a…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cardiovascular Diseases are conditions which block blood transportation to bodily organs. Using an online dataset and machine learning methods, it was tested how heart diseases can be predic…
Technology Enhances the Arts
This project explores a color-to-haptic feedback system designed to assist individuals with visual impairments in perceiving color through touch. A wearable glove equipped with a Red, Blue,…
Microbiology
Staphylococcus aureus is a gram-positive pathogenic bacteria that causes community-onset and nosocomial infections, making it a global healthcare threat. Its ability to evade host responses…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Surface water is decreasing in the Rio Grande as a consequence of climate change, intensifying the vulnerability of our aquifers due to higher demand for groundwater pumping. Agricultural pr…
Translational Medical Science
Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC), responsible for over 90% of pancreatic cancer cases, remains one of the most lethal cancers due to stage IV diagnosis and five-year survival rate of…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The emergence of TEM-171 Beta-lactamase represents a significant threat to modern antimicrobial therapy due to its ability to hydrolyze an extended spectrum of Beta-lactam antibiotics. While…
Physics and Astronomy
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) allows physicians to visualize metabolism in various organs and is widely used in cancer and neurological imaging. The radioactive tracer, usually Fluorode…