Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
This study aimed to develop a differential swerve module which imitated the drivetrain of future NASA Lunar Rovers, effectively exploring the usage of a four-wheeled drive system with two in…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Approximately 50 million people globally rely on technology to replace a missing appendage, 80% of whom cannot afford current solutions and are left with costly, immobile, bulky prosthetics.…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
With the effects of climate change, deserts continue to lose their desert crust, which increases the number and intensity of sand storms and creates other detrimental effects on the environm…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Second Award
Purpose of this investigation is to develop a new safe and effective therapy for stroke. Nearly a quarter of global deaths each year are caused by blood clotting. High cholesterol and platel…
Mathematics
Third Award
Multiple Sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disease affecting millions worldwide, is characterized by its unpredictable course. Mathematics as a tool for predicting MS outcomes and identifying fa…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
With over 18 million new cancer diagnoses and nearly 10 million associated deaths per year, cancer remains a significant global health challenge. Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest fo…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Gun violence has become a threatening phenomenon that has been affecting the lives of Americans nationwide. Two main traits that show a predisposition towards gun violence are psychopathy an…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Nearly one in three of all Americans aged 13 to 18 experience an anxiety disorder. It is important now to accurately diagnose anxiety in adolescents. Current methods of diagnosis involve psy…
Plant Sciences
Third Award
Over years of increasing environmental awareness and ongoing pollution challenges of single-use plastics, contemporary bioplastics, despite their promise, still present significant ecologica…
Physics and Astronomy
Soft robotics has immense potential to transform fields like healthcare and exploration due to the superior adaptability of soft robots compared to traditional rigid robots. Their inherently…
Translational Medical Science
Third Award
Tauopathies are neurodegenerative disorders characterized by the deposition of abnormal tau in the brain. There are over 20 tauopathies that collectively affect millions of people around the…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Second Award
Selenoprotein O (SelO) is a mitochondrial pseudokinase enzyme that AMPylates, or transfers an AMP molecule to, cellular proteins. However, SelO’s role as an AMPylator in oxidative stress res…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Motivated to create an early warning system to predict Colony Collapse Disorder, our research focuses on developing a technological solution to constantly monitor beehive health. We present…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
This work highlights the use of thermoelectric generators (TEGs) to harvest thermal energy inherently available in cooking, to power an automatic stirrer. The tedious task of manual continuo…
Embedded Systems
Fourth Award
This paper introduces "SkyCatcher," a novel annular-shaped retractable quadrotor UAV specialized for cargo transportation. Unlike other morphing quadrotors with complex platforms and challen…
Mathematics
First Award
A mathematical billiard system is one composed of a planar or multidimensional surface and a moving object whose trajectory is defined by its initial position and speed vector, along with so…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Reliance on fossil fuels has caused a large increase in carbon emissions across the world, with a 43% increase of carbon in our atmosphere since 2003. Aside from this, since 2021, the costs…
Biochemistry
Alzheimer's Disease is a neurodegenerative disease in which pathological Amyloid-Beta plaques of 40 amino acids (AB40) aggregate as insoluble fibrils around cells in the neocortex. It is the…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Fourth Award
Annually, millions of lives are lost due to climate change-related factors, predominantly stemming from carbon dioxide emissions linked to fossil fuels. In this research, the development of…
Biochemistry
MDM2 amplification occurs in approximately 40 to 60% of human sarcomas such as liposarcoma. MDM2 protein, an E3 ubiquitin-ligase, negatively regulates p53, a tumor suppressor inactivated in…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Deuterium is a rare, stable hydrogen isotope that can affect organisms in various ways, such as their cellular metabolism, cell structure, and rates of cell division. To understand the exten…
Translational Medical Science
Characterized as recalcitrant cancer, small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a rare neuroendocrine-type lung cancer with growing resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors, leading to rapid metast…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In Bangladesh, the concentration of fluoride in the water is typically high. High levels of fluoride can lead to severe health issues in the future, such as bone damage. However, Labeo Catla…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
The p53 gene is a tumor suppressor in the human body that is mutated in 50-60% of human cancers. p53 acts to suppress retrotransposons (jumping genes) within the genome which are prevalent i…
Translational Medical Science
Each year, cardiovascular disease(CVD) and cancer account for about 17,900,000 and 10,000,000 mortalities, respectively, worldwide. Both CVD and cancer involve invasive, costly, and dangerou…
Animal Sciences
Granulosa cell tumor (GCT) in mares is a significant concern in veterinary medicine. These tumors primarily affect the ovaries and constitute about 85% of all tumors related to the reproduct…
Mathematics
Certain environmental, social, and genetic factors related to socioeconomic status can significantly impact a person's health. The purpose of this experiment is to analyze how air quality, e…
Physics and Astronomy
Jet tagging is a classification problem in high-energy physics experiments that aims to identify the collimated sprays of subatomic particles, jets, from particle collisions and ‘tag’ them t…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Over 50 million Americans have an Autoimmune Disease (AD). Diagnosis of symptoms is challenging and the available treatments are invasive and costly. As chronic diseases, ADs often significa…
Plant Sciences
Second Award
Arsenic accumulation in rice is becoming increasingly problematic, threatening the health of over 150 million people globally. This project aims to use rhizoremediation with rice plants tran…