Animal Sciences
The Pomacea maculata (apple snail) is a large, aquatic snail species invasive to the Southern United States. They consume large amounts of vegetation, which leads to wetland erosion as well…
Animal Sciences
Third Award
As of 2021, 20.7% of Americans have reported consuming nicotine, which is known to severely decrease the viability of human sperm, accelerate the loss of eggs, and alter the respiratory syst…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Developments in microscopy imaging have allowed for in depth study of biological systems at a level never previously reached. One such method is RNA fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH)…
Translational Medical Science
Hypertension is a significant risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, affecting 1.3 billion people and attributing to 17.9 million deaths worldwide per year, making it the leading preventab…
Materials Science
As climate change poses a bigger threat to the world, more and more consumers are looking to change their buying habits to become more sustainable. One industry experiencing this change firs…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This experiment was designed to identify a correlation between mycorrhizae fungal inoculation, hugelkultur systems, and agricultural productivity. The alternative hypothesis, that a correlat…
Chemistry
Garcinia xanthochymus is a species of mangosteen that has exhibited medicinal properties. There are many beneficial phytochemicals found in the bark, leaves, seeds, and fruit of the plant. M…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this project was to create a device that is able to extract and collect water particles from the air and be able to turn it into drinkable water. After creating a device the e…
Plant Sciences
Advancing manned space exploration and habitation may require rethinking the fundamental expectations of plant growth. Plants orient themselves through gravitropism and phototropism; or usin…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Parkinson’s disease (PD), a progressive brain degenerative disease, affects over 10 million people globally leading to neurological deficits associated with tremors, rigidity, imbalance, and…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Poor balance in the elderly has caused many falls, serious injuries, and deaths over the years. To reduce the incidence of falls, a systematic assessment was done on the elderly population i…
Materials Science
Inducing bacteria into cement concrete can increase concrete durability and therefore its lifespan by preventing microcrack formation from the absorption of water. Bacteria have cell walls w…
Translational Medical Science
According to the United Nations, about 1 in 6 of the world’s population suffers from neurological conditions. Microglia within the brain, aggravated by amyloidosis, serve as reactive oxidati…
Microbiology
Second Award
Plastic pollution is an environmental emergency. Since 1950, over 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic waste has been generated (Asad, 2018). It is estimated that between 75 and 199 million to…
Environmental Engineering
Water quality describes the condition of water based on its chemical, physical, and biological state. Poor water quality poses health risks to humans and the environment, causing disease, an…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Third Award
Recent changes in climate, increased energy production, overpopulation, and inadequate water use and infrastructure led to freshwater shortage globally. There is an urgent need to develop ne…
Translational Medical Science
MCT oil was used to ease the created addiction.The experimental setup involved three groups, a control, nicotine, and MCT + nicotine. Over a week, both nicotine groups were treated once a da…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
The rise of the fast fashion and textile industries has proliferated the release of toxic azo dye effluent into the environment, contributing to ~20% of global industrial pollution. Azo dye…
Translational Medical Science
First Award
One-billion individuals, one in six, suffer from neurological disorders. Encephalomyelitis disseminata (MS) is primarily an immune-mediated disease of the central nervous system (CNS) where…
Mathematics
First Award
The Two-Way Partitioning Problem is an NP-Complete problem that seeks to find a partition of a set of integers: given an input multiset S of n positive integers, separate the integers of S i…
Translational Medical Science
Antioxidants can be used to help prevent neurodegeneration and reduce reactive oxygen species (ROS) associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in a C.elegans model. The ROS can tr…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Subliminals are stimuli that fall short of the average threshold of the brain’s auditory and visual cortex which have been speculated to establish correlations in the mind that affect one’s…
Animal Sciences
Ecosystems depend on essential native bumblebee pollination to maintain biodiversity. Concerningly, bumblebee populations in the United States and around the world have been dwindling. Noise…
Animal Sciences
Background: Human activity has added a surplus of noise to the ocean. The effects of anthropogenic noise are well-studied in larger vertebrate organisms, but although coral is a keystone spe…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The basis of this project is on a structural component known as a lap joint. Lap joints can be conjoined with bolts to connect two plates of metal together. Forces can be applied to the syst…
Plant Sciences
The experiment conducted serves as a novel procedure in which lead extraction is possible in drinking water through the usage of bioremediation, which is cheap and affordable to socioeconomi…
Animal Sciences
This study analyzed the effects of circulating adrenocorticotropic (ACTH) and insulin hormones on equine temperament as measured by a specially-developed temperament questionnaire. Given the…
Chemistry
Second Award
As the world seeks safe, sustainable sources of energy storage, supercapacitors are becoming a lucrative option, with their rapid charging capabilities and long lifespans. Their adoption can…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease believed to be caused by the abnormal breakdown of proteins creating toxic Aß plaques. Copper is naturally occurring in th…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The purpose of this study was to determine which type of oil, synthetic or conventional, was most effective at maintaining its tribological performance when the oils experienced a simulated…