Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Overcoming aerodynamic drag is crucial for reducing aviation’s fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. This study examines a biomimetic approach to skin-friction drag reduction through shark-ski…
Chemistry
Drug discovery requires an understanding of protein conformations and ligand binding poses. Classical molecular dynamics (MD) can provide this understanding, but it is too slow to sample ess…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Glioblastoma is a highly aggressive and treatment-resistant brain tumor with a five-year survival rate of 6.9%, necessitating exploration of novel therapeutic strategies. Transient receptor…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger is widely used in high-pressure industrial applications such as petrochemical processing and offshore oil rigs. This study examines the thermal performance…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Inflammatory diseases affect billions of patients worldwide. Receptor for Advanced Glycation End products (RAGE) has been identified as a promising target for many inflammatory diseases, inc…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Environmental changes, including rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and increasing ozone pollution, continue to alter Earth's atmosphere. Ozone layer depletion leads to increased level…
Systems Software
“Bridging the Gap Using EdTech and AI” includes the EdTech desktop application and an iOS mobile app with a workflow of three functions to make the use of AI for teaching/learning more effic…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
In living organisms, DNA is a critical macromolecule; its stability and integrity are vital for the normal functioning of cellular processes, such as DNA replication and DNA repair. Sunlight…
Mathematics
This project focuses on Packet Radio Networks (PRN), represented as a graph G = (V,E) with V and E as its vertex and edge sets respectively. The vertices represent the set of stations, and t…
Physics and Astronomy
The transit method is versatile; it has been critical in not only the discovery of over four thousand Milky Way exoplanets but also the impressive discovery in galaxy Messier 51 of M51-ULS-1…
Translational Medical Science
In many healthcare facilities, the possibility of bedsores forming are a common concern. The formation of bedsores, also called pressure wounds, concern healthcare workers as the deep tissue…
Chemistry
The rapid discovery of exoplanets in recent years has presented a complex challenge in determining their habitability. Remote detection and limited spatial and spectral information, as well…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The evolutionarily conserved DOT1 family of proteins is essential for development in higher mammals. However, overactive DOT1L acts as an oncoprotein, most notably in childhood leukemia. Alt…
Environmental Engineering
Mealworms are capable of eating and digesting polystyrene foam. The purpose of this project was to test the hypothesis that styrene and benzene would not be found in the frass of mealworms t…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
“Ophidia Vision: Inside the Terrarium Lab” is an experiment that used machine learning to detect a reptile’s identity (a ball python). The scientific question is: Can a facial recognition ma…
Physics and Astronomy
The statement, "It is always darkest just before the Day dawneth", is investigated. Luminous intensity for non-terrestrial sources of visible light (i.e., solar, lunar, and stellar) was meas…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a debilitating condition affecting 462 million people worldwide and puts those affected at risk of developing more severe diseases, including Alzheimer's a…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This experiment examined facial recognition when changeable features (hair color, hairstyle, facial hair, and eyeglasses) are altered from a person's original appearance. The hypothesis is:…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of my experiment was to program and build new scanning technology to determine if different things move in a room while someone is away. I cloned the repository on GitHub (a clou…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder that affects communication and behavioral skills. People with ASD show atypical attention to social stimuli and gaze at human faces…
Animal Sciences
What would a summer night be without fireflies? Unfortunately, they are now at risk of becoming an endangered species. Habitat loss, light pollution, and the use of pesticides have dramatica…
Engineering Mechanics
Is it possible to create a supercomputer for under a thousand dollars? Supercomputers are multiple computers (also called nodes) working together over a network to complete the same code. Th…
Physics and Astronomy
The effect of wing shape on a paper airplane’s flight, or rather gliding distance was tested by launching two different airplane designs fifty times each. After every flight the distance bet…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This experiment is to determine if teenage females detect motion, shape, text, or color first in their peripheral vision. Three teenage females were tested with a vision protractor to determ…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The creation of deep neural networks (DNNs) in the field of artificial intelligence, containing tens to hundreds of layers to learn any complex function, give computers the ability to outper…
Systems Software
This project is an attempt to solve the problem of often unknown data types when handling some sort of computer data. When handling computer data, there may often be files or streams that ar…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
If the effects of X-inactivation are observed with tortoiseshell cats, then it will be determined that lyonization is random and not predetermined because each female cell designates X chrom…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Electroencephalography (EEG) headsets, being highly portable, present a convenient, noninvasive method of recording the brain’s electrical activity. This project seeks to develop a method fo…
Mathematics
Riemann sums are a way of understanding integrals. Riemann sums have practical applications as they can be used to measure areas such as a lake easier than other methods. However, Riemann su…
Embedded Systems
Second Award
At standard switching frequencies, short-circuit current is a leading cause of power dissipation in a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) platform. Certain systems, such as missio…