Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
As the world pivots away from fossil fuels, the challenge becomes to satisfy the world's energy needs with intermittent zero-carbon sources such as wind and solar energy. In order to balance…
Systems Software
Third Award
Medical imaging holds profound value in disease diagnosis for millions worldwide. However, studies show that physician imaging orders may frequently be inappropriate (26% of cases) for the c…
Systems Software
The purpose of this project was to create a working program that was capable of challenging someone to a game of Tic-Tac-Toe. I coded the basic A.I. using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript coding. O…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Plastics are everywhere, and have become one of the most useful, yet harmful products utilized worldwide. Over time, plastics break down into smaller microplastics that pose potential physic…
Materials Science
“Microfibers released during washing range from 124 to 308 mg per kg of washed fabric”(de Falco & Di Pace, 2019) The purpose of this project is to decrease the production of micro plastics b…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Second Award
Since the pandemic, online chess has seen unprecedented growth in its user base. This growth is largely due to players being unable to convene physically in quarantine and wanting to play ga…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Children with social and emotional learning suffer daily with conversation due to the lack of social interaction in the classroom setting. The purpose of the project was to create a robot to…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Animal venoms consist of toxin peptides and proteins, and drugs derived from venoms are unique in their ability to interfere with key biological processes in the body, such as blood clotting…
Embedded Systems
Fourth Award
Individuals with limited hand motor function after neurological injury are often unable to return to an independent lifestyle, even after rehabilitation. Using flexible PLA (fPLA) and PLA to…
Biochemistry
Second Award
Parkinson’s disease is a neurological disorder that impacts the movement control of patients due to the degeneration of neurons, reducing the dopaminergic levels in the brain. This causes sy…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Second Award
An estimated 31.1% of all adults will experience an anxiety disorder in their lifetime, yet mental health diagnostic and intervention tools remain largely inaccessible, unaffordable, and cul…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Fourth Award
Muscular Atrophy severely restricts an individual’s ability to conduct Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), with 70% of Muscular Dystrophy patients requiring the aid of a caretaker or an ortho…
Systems Software
The American Society of Clinical Oncology estimates a national shortage of over two-thousand hematologists and oncologists by 2025, yet leukemia is consistently among the ten most prevalent…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
Methylglyoxal (MGO) is a ubiquitous metabolite produced as a byproduct of glycolysis that spontaneously glycates protein residues to form advanced-glycation end products (AGEs), called fruct…
Materials Science
Carbon dioxide is one of the most controversial atmospheric gasses due to its greenhouse effect on global climate. There are many discussions and agreements about how to reduce the productio…
Embedded Systems
Fourth Award
Chronic pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide, compromising the ability of over 750 million individuals to navigate their lives aid-free, yet current management options remain la…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Contributions to the advancement of technology for the betterment of our health will be a key component in allowing us humans to improve our quality of life and improve overall longevity. Th…
Microbiology
First Award
The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes fatal and chronic infections, with 124,000 deaths annually, due to its beta-lactamase-mediated resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Second Award
Natural catastrophe modeling allows for the evaluation of economic loss, property loss, and environmental damage during and after such an event. However, two central problems have arisen in…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Over the last 150 years, the average global temperature on Earth has rapidly increased. This detrimental impact has created–among others–widespread famine, the melting of ice caps, larger, m…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The problem confronted is the emission of hydrocarbons from combustion engines. The Engineering goal was to convert a weed wacker engine (WWE) to utilize compressed air as fuel. A WWE was ch…
Microbiology
The human microbiome makes up 90% of the cells in our body and that makes us just 10% human. The microbiome has long been associated with several human diseases. Our microbiome in homeostasi…
Biomedical Engineering
Diabetes is a chronic condition that devastates approximately 10% of the global population, and yet technology aimed at its management is invasive, costly, and solely monitors blood-glucose…
Animal Sciences
Light pollution or artificial light at night (ALAN) can disrupt insect circadian rhythms and development, since photoperiod is a dominant cue for timing seasonal events in animal life cycles…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
For seven decades, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) has been psychiatrists’ diagnostic textbook-of-choice, but do its pages belong in 2023? The DSM’s problems…
Systems Software
Student failure and dropout in universities are detrimental in many ways, costing $1700 on average in tuition fees, risking future financial aid, and prompting issues in mental health and mo…
Mathematics
Fourth Award
We investigate a special variant of chip-firing, in which we consider an infinite set of rooms on a number line, some of which are occupied by violinists. In a move, we take two violinists i…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Unreliable electricity and power outages significantly impact the lives of an estimated 3.5 billion people, primarily in developing nations. The Demand Response (DR) concept optimizes electr…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Fourth Award
Centralized power grids in developed areas are currently the main benefactor of renewable energy advancements and are predicted to be completely renewable by 2032. However, with methods of e…
Chemistry
Recent years have seen the increased usage of lithium batteries as a compact and efficient power source for many consumer applications. From electronics to electric vehicles, these batteries…