Earth and Environmental Sciences
Climate change continues to disrupt agricultural systems, making crop yield forecasting a critical component towards enabling climate resilience in agriculture. This project aimed to deciphe…
Physics and Astronomy
This project presents an in-line lens-free digital holographic imaging system capable of single-frame 3D reconstruction. I used a 532 nm monochromatic source to illuminate the sample, and th…
Embedded Systems
Every year, on average, 37 children die from being left in vehicles out in the heat. This is a fatal mistake that can be avoided with a simple temperature detection and cooling system. The r…
Microbiology
Harmful Algae Blooms (HABs) are growths of microalgae that produce harmful toxins. Microcystis aeruginosa is the cyanobacterium commonly found in HABs. Microcystis produces the cyanotoxin mi…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are highly persistent fluorinated chemicals used in many consumer and industrial products that are prone to bioaccumulation due to strong C-F bonds…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Thrust vector control (TVC) enables rockets to adjust their trajectory by redirecting engine thrust, providing active stabilization during powered flight when aerodynamic fins are less effec…
Translational Medical Science
The prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD), a multifactorial, neurodegenerative disease characterized by a decline in cognitive functions, is projected to double by 2060, underscoring a grow…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Low-speed aerodynamic stalls remain a critical limitation for general aviation (GA) aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating at low Reynolds numbers. Although the Clark-Y airfo…
Software Design
In the U.S., about 1 in 14 children has a communication disorder, and 1 in 4 children with speech disorders also experience social and emotional difficulties, making them twice as likely to…
Technology Enhances the Arts
This project determined if playing different games in different amounts would affect typing speed and accuracy. The experiment was performed due to personal research that showed an increase…
Biochemistry
Breast cancer remains the most prevalent malignancy among women worldwide. Dose-dense AC-T chemotherapy (Adriamycin, Cyclophosphamide, and Paclitaxel), a commonly prescribed regimen, is asso…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is characterized by excessive lipid accumulation in the liver and can progress to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, fibrosis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carci…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Besides the familiar double helix, DNA can form alternative structures such as G-quadruplexes (G4), guanine-rich four-stranded structures that arise during replication and repair. G4s are co…
Mathematics
Arithmetic performance depends on the neural processing across distinct brain regions. This study investigates whether clustering coefficients (CCs), a graph theory metric for centrality, re…
Materials Science
This study investigates the effects of environmental temperature fluctuations and ultrasonic cleaning on the mechanical properties of two polymers: polyethylene terephthalate glycol (PETG) a…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
A significant number of bridges in the United States are susceptible to failure, and one of the main factors that causes failure is overload. Severe consequences can result from bridge failu…
Animal Sciences
Bees pollinate the flowers of many fruit trees which produce a significant proportion of our food supply. It is therefore important to improve beekeeping practices to produce healthier bees…
Animal Sciences
In this project, the major aim is to identify the relationship that exists between the sound type and the level of stress in the dogs. In this project, there are three dogs. Each dog is expo…
Biomedical Engineering
Partial-thickness burns make up 85.4% of all clinical cases (Ji et al., 2024). At the same time, those in underrepresented areas display higher burn incidences and are less likely to adminis…
Microbiology
Staphylococcus aureus is a pathogenic bacteria well known for developing resistance to antibiotics, with dire consequences for human staph infections. This study explored the time required f…
Chemistry
Electrolytes like sodium and potassium are important for helping the body stay hydrated and keep muscles and nerves working properly. Sports drinks are advertised as a way to replace electro…
Biomedical Engineering
Due to the high prevalence of heart failure, as well as the limited availability of donor hearts, many devices exist that strive to temporarily replace heart function until a replacement is…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Further optimization of renewable energy systems is crucial for efforts towards developing a sustainable future. Recently, offshore wind has become one of the most rapidly advancing solution…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project primarily aimed to quantitatively assess gender differences in the attribution of certain mental disorders to certain gender identities. It secondarily assessed gender differenc…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
This study aimed to identify potential inhibitors of meso-diaminopimelate decarboxylase (LYASE), a bacterial enzyme crucial for lysine biosynthesis, using molecular docking simulations. The…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
This project investigates the optimization of airfoil designs to enhance low-speed aerodynamic performance and reduce the risk of aerodynamic stalls—a leading contributor to aircraft acciden…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Helicases are enzymes that unwind double-stranded DNA during replication and repair. Human DNA helicase B (HELB) is critical for proper genome maintenance and recovery from replication stres…
Plant Sciences
My science fair project is to see how pea plants would grow to different liquids on the pH scale. In this world there are many countries with the lack of clean water or just having the abili…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Salmonella is a common pathogen, infecting more than a hundred million people yearly. About 8% of these cases worldwide result in life-threatening conditions around 4-7 days after exposure.…
Microbiology
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 is a powerful technology used for gene editing. While this method has opened many opportunities for scientific advance…