Plant Sciences
Show caves with artificial lighting can be colonized by algae that would not normally be native to the environment. Onondaga Cave algae has no exposure to natural light and minimal exposure…
Biomedical Engineering
Traumatic injury accounts for over 150,000 deaths per year, and millions of non-fatal injuries per year (Connoway, 2020). Additionally, out of the 1.1 million burn victims admitted to US hos…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This experiment examines the effects bio plastics made from Kentucky Bluegrass seeds have on deforested ecosystems viability. Species are being eradicated due to deforestation, and are unabl…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
With the goal of reducing our current demand, and reliance on the combustion of fossil fuels, there have been many studies on the development of ionic wind. Ionic wind creates thrust is the…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
As global warming presents a long-term challenge to the Earth and aerospace organizations continuously expand efforts to explore and colonize other planets, the need for an effective means t…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Gene deletion can be used in lower eukaryotes to show the protein-protein interactions in complexes. The Sin3 complex is a chromatin remodeling complex, that has been studied extensively in…
Chemistry
Ink can be made from different plants and contain additives to intensify color. Using a spectrophotometer, I tested combinations of 5% acetic acid, gum Arabic and potassium aluminum sulfate…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Emotion regulation is the way individuals manage, experience, and exhibit their emotions. This novel study investigated how emotion regulation strategies were used during the COVID-19 pandem…
Materials Science
This investigation focuses on varied surface preparation methods of titanium substrates for optimised structural adhesive bonding. In aircrafts, adhesives must provide sufficient support in…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a highly aggressive form of breast cancer with a lack of effective treatment options and high rates of metastasis. Angiogenesis, the formation of new…
Environmental Engineering
Second Award
Produced water (PW) generated during oil and gas production is primarily disposed of through deep-well injection, which is costly and induces seismicity. PW treatment and reuse can enhance e…
Biochemistry
The purpose of this research was to test the effect of the Tsaile Lake Water (Lake outside Tsaile) on the Mitotic Index of Allium cepa root tip. The hypothesis is if the Tsaile Lake water an…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Over the past decade, deterring aerial threats such as enemy missile, rocket, and drone technology have become critical in the defense industry. New threats are resistant to the physics-base…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The COVID-19 pandemic has been ravaging on for more than 2 years now, ever since it was declared a pandemic in early March of 2020. Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has been used in track…
Biomedical Engineering
Essential tremor, which affects millions in the United States, is a progressive and incurable movement disorder characterized by uncontrollable shaking of the hands and arms during voluntary…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
Responsible for 80% of global agricultural crop pollination, bees are essential to food production efforts. Deformed wing virus (DWV) is the leading cause of death, disability, and colony co…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The need for large-scale implementation of solar energy served as inspiration for this experiment. When using renewable energy, efficiency must be maximized because it is currently much less…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
The COVID-19 pandemic due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus threatens global public health. The immune response in patients plays a significant role in resisting COVID-19 infection, one part of which…
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…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Research depicts a lack of cost effective, efficient FDA approved medical tools for early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases, particularly Alzheimer’s Disease [AD] and onset dementia. R…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The past three years have seen SARS-CoV-2 wreak havoc on society with limited effective treatments available due to the amount of trial and error involved. However, with recent advancements…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Trihalomethanes (THM) are cancer group B, EPA-regulated disinfectant byproducts of chlorine-treated water. A survey of Fulton County, OH public school districts supplied by surface water con…
Physics and Astronomy
Although millions of dollars have been dedicated to warning people of incoming tsunamis, little has been done to neutralize the threat. To create a life-saving device that prevents the loss…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Modern rockets pump thousands of tons of soot into the atmosphere, and as human space launches are primed to double again by 2030, the development of more cost-effective and sustainable laun…
Microbiology
An estimated 1 in 8 worldwide deaths each year occur from bacterial infections, and the threat of bacterial infections is only increasing. The overuse of antibiotics against bacterial infect…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Fourth Award
The hazards of fires are some of the most dangerous matters emergency-dispatchers deal with. A myriad of fatal-risks are linked to fires, including the quick spread of inhalable toxic-fumes,…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative condition, characterized by amyloid-beta plaque deposition in the brain. Focused ultrasound (FU) may have a therapeutic modulatin…
Translational Medical Science
Epilepsy is a prevalent neurological disorder affecting 50 million individuals worldwide and 3.4 million Americans. There exist millions of pediatric patients with intractable epilepsy, a co…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In 2020, cryptocurrencies experienced significant growth due to increasing interest rates and a declining US dollar value. This resulted in a rapid proliferation in the price of Bitcoin and…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development supports naval innovators to promote marine biodiversity, generate sustainable energy, and stabilize the climate crisis…