Behavioral and Social Sciences
Recent advances in audio neurofeedback therapy offer a promising solution for individuals with ADHD by training them to self-regulate brain activity, by reducing excess theta waves and enhan…
Biomedical Engineering
Millions of patients worldwide require the use of implanted medical devices (IMDs) to treat chronic illnesses. These devices use non-rechargeable batteries, requiring invasive and possibly d…
Microbiology
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria threaten a future where even minor infections may become untreatable. This growing concern has renewed interest in an old alternative—phage therapy. Phage thera…
Plant Sciences
This study aimed to determine which light color is most effective for growing a plant entirely indoors and for preparing a plant to be transplanted outdoors. Optimizing indoor plant growth s…
Systems Software
This project detailed the development of NLC (Natural Language Compression), a text encoder optimized for natural language (NL). Efficient NL encoding is most valuable for satellite-based te…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
With renewed interest in green fuel technology or E-fuels as an alternative to fossil fuels, interest has returned to hydrogen production and improving the electrolysis process. The key issu…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
With need for electrical power increasing around the globe and natural bacteria living in the ground, this work will present a novel solution to meet the energy demands by using the alternat…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
This project explores the application of physics and calculus to predict and optimize the trajectory of a basketball shot using a pendulum mechanism. First, I calculated the velocity of the…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Political polarization creates echo chambers where misinformation thrives. When misinformation aligns with political ideologies, it reinforces biases and obstructs progress on issues like cl…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Growing automotive emissions are contributing to climate change and a decrease in air quality. Reducing these emissions is a prevalent concern and drag reduction technology is one method of…
Microbiology
The use of mouthwash is widely recommended by dental professionals and endorsed by organizations such as the American Dental Association for its potential to improve oral hygiene. This exper…
Microbiology
Halophiles have a vast range of uses, from biofuel production to pharmaceutical applications. Escherichia coli has one of the fastest duplication times of any organism, as low as twenty minu…
Technology Enhances the Arts
In the last decade, there have been monumental breakthroughs regarding the use of artificial intelligence in "human" fields, such as language and art. Coinciding with these developments, the…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Pathogenic fungi of the Candida genus, including C. albicans, pose an increasing threat to global health. Almost all Candida species belong to the CTG clade, which deviates from the common g…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the progressive degeneration of motor neurons, leading to muscle weakness, paralysis, and ultimatel…
Translational Medical Science
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in the developed world, affecting 20 million in the US alone. Retinal Pigment Epithelial (RPE) cells between the reti…
Mathematics
I chose to investigate knot link surfaces in the field of topology/knot theory because it seemed interesting and I saw a similar thing knot surfaces discussed. The question is can a surface…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Hypoxia is common in solid tumors. Hypoxia Inducible Factor 1 Alpha (Hif1a) is upregulated and stabilized under hypoxic conditions, leading to tumor growth. This experiment targets Hif1a bec…
Physics and Astronomy
The size of the powder grains significantly affects the accuracy and speed of a .44 Magnum cartridge. Finer powders burn more evenly and quickly, resulting in higher muzzle velocity and fast…
Plant Sciences
Aquaponics is a form of agriculture that involves plant and marine life. In an aquaponics system, the fish provide essential nutrients to the plants and in return the plants clean the water…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, is a progressive degeneration of the retina that causes significant central visual impairment, impacting nearly 20 million elderly adults in the Uni…
Chemistry
Microalgae is an optimal biofuel candidate due to its ease of growth in many water environments, high lipid content, and lack of overlap with food production. The separation of microalgae fr…
Animal Sciences
Birds generate calls and songs with distinct frequency patterns. Spectrograms have long been used to visualize those sound patterns by mapping changes in pitch and amplitude over time. While…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Leukodystrophies, rare genetic disorders that cause abnormal myelin development or destruction, have recently been discovered to be associated with the polr3a gene. This experiment aimed to…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Ionic thrusters are used in the space industry, but not in general aviation. If ionic thrusters could be designed so they can produce enough lift, it could be a more green form of flying and…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Genetic Algorithms mimic evolution of a species in nature, where each generation is made up of a population of chromosomes, which, through crossover and mutation, evolve increasingly fit off…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Utah’s Great Salt Lake (GSL) is facing a critical situation, with projections indicating its potential disappearance within five years. This could cause an unprecedented environmental, healt…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) is an autosomal dominant cancer predisposition syndrome that affects 1 in 3,000 individuals indiscriminately. It is primarily characterized by the growth of periphe…
Biochemistry
Complex sugars known as Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) play a vital role in nearly all biological processes, from wound healing to the progression of diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's. They…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Handwriting is defined as a complex neurophysiological process that involves multiple aspects including visual-motor, memory, and linguistic aspects as well as multiple subsections of the ce…