Technology Enhances the Arts
Humanity has made great strides in Artificial Intelligence (AI) development since the 1960s. Today, because such technology has been made available to the public, there has been a rise in AI…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
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…
Biomedical Engineering
Purpose: Surgical site infections cause significant morbidity and even mortality. Increase in wound pH has been correlated with infection and may identify infection before clinical symptoms…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy(PSP) is a neurodegenerative disease that affects many individuals over the age of 60. Unfortunately, more than 30% of patients with PSP are misdiagnosed as hav…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Climate change continues to worsen through greenhouse gasses as up to 40 billion tons of gasses will be in the atmosphere by the end of 2023. With a fourth of those emissions coming from gas…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Second Award
Every year, six million people die from cardiac arrest in the world with 436,000 victims in the United States alone. This problem is made worse because, in many counties, more than 50% of pe…
Materials Science
Gallium oxide is a wide-bandgap semiconductor gaining significance for its outstanding optoelectronic and gas-sensing properties. Although gallium oxide is known for its antibacterial effica…
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this project was to create an innovative way to fertilize, using protists applied to the soil and add to research on the effects of protists in soil, specifically researching…
Animal Sciences
Pharmaceutical pollution poses a growing environmental concern, and Metformin, the fourth most prescribed pharmaceutical in the U.S., is a significant contributor. Despite effective removal…
Materials Science
Since the discovery of synthetic petroleum-based plastics, humanity has increased its production exponentially at the cost of our planet's health. This traditional plastic takes millions of…
Plant Sciences
Turfgrass is a perennial ground cover adapted to withstand persistent mowing and all traffic. Light, water, humidity, climate, soil conditions and season, are key factors in selecting a turf…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The main objective of this experiment is to address the question of how eutectic alloys (Aluminum-Silicon, Sn, Pb, and Ag-Based) behave under microgravity-induced freezing conditions. The ex…
Materials Science
Resorbable medical devices are advantageous because they are there when you need them and then degrades into biologically safe byproducts when it is not. One application of resorbable medica…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
As a result of aggressive agrochemical use, urban sprawl, and industrialization, heavy metal and Synthetic Organic Compounds (SOC) pollution is predicted to increase at unprecedented rates,…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Second Award
To ascertain complex relationships between inputs and outputs and function at high accuracies, Machine Learning algorithms require vast amounts of high-quality data. In many instances, the q…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
In the virtual realm, individuals with photosensitive epilepsy encounter challenges using electronic devices exposed to visual stimuli. These stimuli, characterized by rapidly flashing eleme…
Chemistry
Second Award
Steadfast technological advancements have driven notable growth in the demand for efficient and affordable power sources, with production of the lithium-ion battery surging nearly 700% in th…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Over 10 million people worldwide are diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease (PD), a neurodegenerative disorder significantly impacting daily life. Freezing of Gait (FoG), affecting around 80% of…
Embedded Systems
Grasping is a critical function for human-like robots to automate human labor. Currently, robotic grasping is limited by robotic hands' inability to precisely set grasping conditions before…
Embedded Systems
Fourth Award
Vision is one of the most crucial senses. However, visual impairment - the inability to properly correct eyesight - has grown to affect more than 253 million people worldwide, with lifelong…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The health of a watershed is multifaceted, encompassing physical, chemical, and biological aspects. In the Laguna Madre Watershed, significant landscape shifts have occurred, including the i…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a disease that is largely a mystery within the medical community due to the unpredictable nature of its pathogenesis in sporadic ALS and its lack of a…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) is crucial for cell health, facilitating functions like protein and lipid synthesis, calcium storage, and stress response. Previously, research has established…
Animal Sciences
The first hours post-fertilization represent critical time points in teleost development and may be an overlooked source of adult phenotypic variation. There are underlying mechanisms involv…
Materials Science
Materials have rapidly become scarce and costly to produce and acquire, which has been due to several factors, including disease, deforestation, worker strikes, and more. The purpose of this…
Physics and Astronomy
Quantum computers are integral to progress in computational capability but are limited by decoherence. This research investigated characteristics of qubit decoherence in systems of parallel…
Biochemistry
Chronic hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance are prequels to type II diabetes mellitus. Previous studies from our laboratory have demonstrated that the Bromodomain-and-Extra-Terminal prot…
Physics and Astronomy
Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability (KHI) is a process that forms vortices in fluids and occurs when two fluids in contact move in opposite directions. The Richardson Number, proportional to the de…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
Bats, like bees, are a keystone species benefiting the environment and saving farmers billions of dollars in chemicals. However, since 2006, millions of bats in North America have died of a…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
Unveiling the behavioral and neural activity underlying hand movements sheds light on mammalian motor control and bolsters advancements in brain-machine interfaces and prosthetic arms. Veter…