Earth and Environmental Sciences
Agriculture is an ever-changing industry. Agricultural drainage tiling has become much more common in recent years. Agricultural drainage tiling has numerous benefits, but there are drawback…
Biochemistry
Third Award
Parkinson’s disease is characterized by the irreversible decline of dopamine, a neurotransmitter that regulates the nigrostriatal neuromodulatory system, which results in the rise of dysfunc…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This project investigated the use of the plant "Tradescantia Pallida," also called Purple Heart, as a sensitizer for the Gratzel cell. Never before has Purple Heart been researched for such…
Animal Sciences
Second Award
White line disease (WLD) is a significant pathological condition that commonly affects horses globally, leading to hoof deformity, wall fissures, pedal osteitis and chronic lameness. Lamenes…
Biomedical Engineering
Whitewater sports result in 50 deaths and thousands of head injuries every year, and the currently available helmets are insufficient. The objective of this study was to create an optimized…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Coral reefs are one of the world’s most spectacular ecosystems which are visible even from space making them the most diverse marine ecosystem. One-quarter of all ocean species depend on ree…
Translational Medical Science
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic, neurodegenerative illness characterized by forgetfulness, cognitive impairment, and the progressive loss of a variety of other brain functions as well…
Chemistry
Accelerated urbanization has increased wastewater through heavy metal contamination. This investigation aimed to deter contamination by implementing biosand filtration in conjunction with op…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The American Cancer Society estimates that 23,660 Americans will die of leukemia in 2022. It is the eighth-most lethal form of cancer and the second among children. Accurate and early diagno…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
With over 11 percent of people over the age of 65 developing this detrimental disease and being in the top 10 most common chronic conditions for adults over 65, Alzheimer's disease is a detr…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Fourth Award
Nature has already perfected flight in the form of birds. One especially critical yet often overlooked aspect of avian flight is the highly nimble and drag-reducing aerodynamics of the avian…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Staphylococcus aureus bacteria is the world’s leading cause of bone implant infection causing osteomyelitis. Osteomyelitis accounts for half of all chronic diseases in people over 50 and thi…
Translational Medical Science
Wound assessment is a critical aspect of wound treatment, as the healing progress of a wound determines the optimal approach to care. However, the heterogeneity of burn wounds often complica…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
Prescription opioid addiction is a national health crisis. Today, patients or physicians don't have a way of diagnosing if a relief painkiller causes addiction. Current approaches for diagno…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Third Award
Autophagy is a “self-eating” cellular pathway. It is a core molecular mechanism for cellular and organismal homeostasis and is also a pro-longevity mechanism. Autophagy dysfunction links the…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Eutrophication, an excess of nitrates and phosphates in water primarily caused by fertilizer runoff, is the leading cause of cyanobacteria epidemics and marine life deaths. Previous studies…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory autoimmune disease that affects 23 million people worldwide. It is a clinically heterogeneous disorder characterized by the attack of inflammator…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Background: Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally. The heterogeneous nature of cancers with multiple subtypes makes them challenging to treat. We hypothesized that a computati…
Systems Software
Extracting patient symptoms from electronic health records (EHRs) is a daily task that physicians face with each patient. Physicians nowadays experience increased burnout due to the rising n…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
As bipolar I disorder (BD-I) is characterized by manic, mixed, and depressive episodes, polypharmacy—combining 2 or more medications simultaneously—is common for BD-I psychiatric treatment t…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Glioblastoma (GBM) is an incurable brain tumor whose poor patient outcomes have seen little improvement over the past 30 years, possibly due to a lack of effective prognostic tools (Ostrom e…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Spinal Cord Injuries (SCI) are prevalent in society, EphA4 is a gene that inhibits axon regeneration following development and is known to decrease neural plasticity during rehabilitation. R…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Purpose: To create a machine learning model that could identify drugs that could be effective against Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis. Procedure: The Assay Central TB dataset was acquired…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Alien invasive species (AIS) cause habitat destruction, lower crop productivity, climate change, and significant losses in global biodiversity. Global efforts to control rapid expansion of A…
Translational Medical Science
Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs) result in more than 100,000 fatalities and cost more than $35 billion annually in the USA alone. More than 50% of HAIs can be prevented by following prope…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Farms around the world currently account for 70% of all water consumed annually. However, increasing municipal and industrial demands for water means there is less water allocated for agricu…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
According to the WHO, cancer resulted in 10 million deaths in 2020, a leading cause of death, and studies show that on average any particular class of drugs is ineffective for 75% of all pat…
Embedded Systems
Fourth Award
Progress within many modern scientific fields has increasingly relied on the continued advancement of computational power. However, thermodynamic and physical limits associated with electron…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
As the prevalence of obesity and other chronic diseases continue to increase, so do the cases of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Despite the development of new treatments, HCC remains diffic…
Biomedical Engineering
Second Award
The myoprosthesis developed in this research is a novel prototype to enable complete biomimetic performance in a bionic hand, accurately implementing gesture extraction and a soft polyarticu…