Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
EEGs are an important tool used by clinicians to diagnose neurological abnormalities such as epilepsy, and by medical researchers to map the functions of different components of the brain. H…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
With the impacts of climate change intensifying, sea level is expected to rise 0.25–0.30 meters by 2050. With a one-degree Celsius rise in temperature, precipitation globally is expected to…
Microbiology
Oral diseases such as tooth decay are expected to affect 3.5 billion individuals worldwide. In most developing countries, access to primary oral health treatments is limited due to an unequa…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder and the leading cause of death in the US. There are currently no effective drugs for this disease due to lack of unders…
Materials Science
Every year, millions of people incur damage to sensory receptors that interact with the external environment. Two areas of concern are hearing loss (affecting around 700 million by 2050) and…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a heterogeneous category of impairments characterized by repetitive behaviors and impaired social communication which is currently diagnosed behaviorally. I…
Chemistry
As the field of cancer research increases, photothermal nanoparticles have become a forefront for localized cancer treatment. High-entropy-alloy nanoparticles, consisting of at least 5 alloy…
Materials Science
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is a leading cause of infant death, causing 41% of sudden unexpected infant death nationwide. SIDS is attributed to (i) rebreathing CO2 and (ii) inorganic…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Second Award
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common malignant adult brain tumor. With minimal clinical innovation, the prognosis for GBM patients remains grim. However, there is a commonality between 83%…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Neurological disorders, such as Parkinson’s Disease and Alzheimer's Disease, have become more common in recent years, with the number of deaths due to neurological disorders increasing by ab…
Environmental Engineering
First Award
1.1 billion individuals worldwide, particularly low-income workers in remote settings, are unknowingly exposed to dangerous gaseous concentrations of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), accor…
Translational Medical Science
Brain tumors are a significant and growing health concern in the United States, with an estimated 700,000 people living with a primary brain tumor. Misdiagnosis is a major issue with brain t…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Object recognition is an important task in image processing and a fuzzy neural network (FNN) is a popular tool for object recognition. However, when applied to datasets that present complex…
Materials Science
The goal of this study was to determine if the annealing process of 3D printed polymers could be further enhanced with the addition of constant pressure during the procedure. The purpose is…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Emergency Medical Service (EMS) providers experience high levels of occupational stress due to long hours, short staffing, and patient deaths, among other factors. Little is known about the…
Biomedical Engineering
Second Award
Purpose The purpose of the OctoGrasp project is to design and build a highly dexterous bio-mimetic prosthetic arm inspired by the biology of cephalopods. Typical prosthetics rely on force at…
Environmental Engineering
The goal is to determine if the scientist could create an easily accessible database of sea turtle blood images and an open-sourced machine learning algorithm that partners with a developing…
Translational Medical Science
The current practice of treating cancer with radiation, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy is a one-size-fits-all approach in which patients with the same type and stage of cancer receive the s…
Mathematics
Fractals and knots are intriguing mathematical objects with similar applications and visual appeal, yet there have been very few reports on combining the two. In this project, an algorithmic…
Mathematics
It is known that there are countably many non-integers a > 1 which possess the property that ?a^n? is not a prime for all integers n = 1. There are however very few known explicit examples o…
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…
Biomedical Engineering
Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has been used to model tissue microstructure non-invasively. One such model called Neurite Orientation Dispersion and Density Imaging (NODDI), has…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
Through decades of endless carbon emissions and multiple energy crises, current renewable energy sources remain environmentally harmful, inconsistent, and energetically inefficient. A partic…
Embedded Systems
Traditional model rockets lack technology because their construction relies on simple physics and handcrafted components. When human mistake occurs, it can have a cascading effect that has a…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
While type 1 diabetes (T1D) affects millions worldwide, some individuals may experience rapid fluctuations in their blood sugar levels. These fluctuations can negatively impact an individual…
Translational Medical Science
Brain strokes are a prominent, life-threatening condition that significantly afflicts the world population, with 15 million people suffering from a stroke annually. A large percentage of str…
Mathematics
Third Award
Quantum computing is a rapidly growing field that applies quantum mechanics to computer science and its algorithms, and it has many applications, including optimization problems, where the g…
Mathematics
Fourth Award
Linear Delta robots (LDRs) are a relatively new subset of parallel robots, used in some 3D printing and manufacturing applications due to their rigidity and speed. However, there are just tw…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this experiment is to determine if the efficiency of traffic flow can be improved by leveraging the strengths of Artificial Intelligence (Al), the best Machine Learning (ML) m…
Biomedical Engineering
Vascular endothelial cells line blood vessels and are important in vascular health, growth, and repair, and pulsatile blood flow generated with each heartbeat sends mechanical signals to the…