Environmental Engineering
Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) technology is an emerging Li-ion battery chemistry that is being implemented into mainstream electrical vehicles (EVs) - Ford and Tesla recently incorporated the…
Biomedical Engineering
Second Award
Low-field (LF) MRI scanners have the power to revolutionize medical imaging by providing a portable and cheaper alternative to high-field MRI scanners. However, such scanners are usually sig…
Biochemistry
Background: Ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) is a significant challenge in organ transplantation, as restoring blood flow to an organ post-transplantation can cause further damage and threa…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Second Award
The spread and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses can lead to various mutations that cause significant spikes in infections. It is essential for researchers to study virus genome s…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Natural Killer (NK) cells -both circulating (cNK) and liver resident (lr-NK) - are a major component of innate host defense against Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). NK cell dysfunction is ass…
Materials Science
Football is one of the most popular American sports, and some of the most exciting beginnings of this sport are in high school. Concussions are unfortunately a prominent consequence of the s…
Biomedical Engineering
Second Award
The medical field is becoming increasingly reliant on medical imaging for diagnostic procedures. Although traditional high-field MRI scanners produce high-quality images at high SNR, they ar…
Microbiology
In order to combat the mounting antibiotic-resistance epidemic, the purpose of this study is to test alternative antimicrobial substances for potential treatment of Staphylococcus epidermidi…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
First Award
There is currently no cure for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the third leading cause of death worldwide with over 70 million cases and 3.5 million deaths per year. Treatment…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
CAR T-cell immunotherapy has proven to be effective in treating relapsed, refractory B-cell malignancies, such as non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). Nevertheless, limitations have emerged from IL…
Biomedical Engineering
Arm injuries are common among all age groups. However, there are not many accessible ways for a patient with an arm injury to perform their rehabilitation while in a home-based environment w…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
As the Coronavirus continues to spread globally, different mutations arise. These variants often take long periods of time until being discovered, resulting in large spikes of infection. Thi…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
Every passing year, more and more material is introduced into Earth's orbital environment. While regulations regarding end-of-life removal have steadily evolved over the past decades, hundre…
Environmental Engineering
Respiratory diseases such as COVID-19 and influenza predominantly spread through small micron-sized particles that have the ability to stay aloft in indoor air spaces for minutes to hours. O…
Environmental Engineering
The textile industry is one of the most polluting industries in the world, with a fifth of water pollution originating from just the dyeing and finishing steps of the textile manufacturing p…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Shiga toxin-producing E. coli-induced convulsions/seizures will affect the expressions of Drosophila melanogaster (common fruit flies). This is due to the fact that Shiga toxin-producing E.…
Biochemistry
Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) is a ubiquitous, gram-negative bacterium associated with a wide variety of infections in the human body. As an opportunistic pathogen, P. aeruginosa mo…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
The bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes many human and plant diseases, infecting over 50,000 people annually. ~75% of Pseudomonas proteins are characterized; however, pathogenic mechanis…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
Many corporations lack the software and knowledge for advanced inventory optimization and management, so suffer stockouts, bloated inventory, and inefficient ordering policy. Material Requir…
Engineering Mechanics
Hand-held yard equipment such as trimmers, chainsaws, blowers, and lawn mowers expel around 30% of pollutants that go into the engine. They are barely regulated for their emissions which ult…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Machine learning can assist radiologists in detecting breast cancer by increasing efficiency and accuracy, which is vital to its treatment. This project introduces a novel, Java-based implem…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Micron-sized aerosols which are the dominant mechanism of spread for influenza and tuberculosis are implicated as the likely mode of transmission for COVID-19. This study examines whether ae…
Materials Science
Piezoelectric materials are tremendously useful but tragically limited. The poor structural properties, expense, and inaccessibility of custom piezoelectric materials have limited their util…
Plant Sciences
With more than 93% of corn produced in the United States being genetically modified in some way, it is challenging for non-GMO corn producers to prevent contamination of their crop from GMO…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Neural networks and genetic algorithms (GAs) are two techniques for optimization and machine learning, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. This project demonstrated the efficiency an…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Anxiety is the most common mental disorder in the United States, affecting some 40 million adults each year. During anxiety attacks, neurons release excessive amounts of adrenaline, causing…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This study uses simulated septic effluent leaching into sandy soils similar in composition to those located in the Cape Cod area of Massachusetts to identify the orthophosphate (PO4 3-) filt…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Hypertension, a detriment linked to various risk factors, contributes to the development of renal and diabetic damage, increasing the risk for the development of cardiovascular disease, whic…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
A plummet in the research productivity of drug discovery has been observed in recent decades, with higher costs, longer timelines, and lower success rates of drug candidates in clinical tria…
Biochemistry
Cellular stress is caused by the exposure of cells to environmental stressors and is extremely harmful, e.g., oxidative stress is caused by free radicals, and is linked to cancer, ADHD, etc.…