Materials Science
Superconductors are materials that exhibit zero resistance and expel magnetic fields once cooled below a certain critical temperature, allowing for their application in various technologies…
Mathematics
Third Award
Dynamical optimal transport is a field in mathematics and computer science involving interpolation between two probability measures. While dynamical optimal transport on continuous domains i…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Telemedicine & remote diagnosis using Computer-Aided Detection hold the key to timely medical treatment for millions of people, in absence of radiologists in remote regions. Unfortunately, t…
Environmental Engineering
In recent years, insurgences of red tide, harmful algal blooms (HAB), caused by concentrates of the dinoflagellate Karenia brevis, have yielded millions of marine wildlife deaths, respirator…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
When a building collapses, survivors are trapped in unknown locations. Locating survivors is crucial in a rescue operation and can be extremely difficult due to the terrain and inaccessibili…
Animal Sciences
Third Award
Honey bees are an essential part of global food production and revenue. However, pollinators around the world are declining at a rate faster than ever recorded due to pesticides, diseases an…
Plant Sciences
The shape and size of a plant’s seed impact how well it is able to scatter and move over time, notably in changing environmental circumstances. As the environment changes, the survival of th…
Animal Sciences
Introduction: It is known that mechanosensory halteres, the reduced hindwings of flies, send information to the brain about wing-steering, head movement, and take-off stabilization. Most fli…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Purpose: COVID-19 is a respiratory disease caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) which emerged globally in early 2020. The rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 spi…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Long-term trends for leukemia (blood cancer) have consistently shown that men have significantly higher incidence and mortality rates than women, but the reason why this occurs isn’t clear.…
Materials Science
Composite dental fillings (CDF) are used to repair teeth. Initially, in the form of a paste, CDFs are polymerized using curing lights. Curing lights use different wavelengths that interact w…
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…
Biomedical Engineering
Following surgery, dogs generally experience irritation on the skin around the surgical site due to pain, histamines, and the protein IL-31 (Blue Cross, 2020)(Xu, et al., 2020)(Zimlich, 2021…
Plant Sciences
Stem cells are critical for the development of all tissue types. The stem cells located within the Shoot Apical Meristem (SAM) of plants produce all above-ground plant parts that account for…
Embedded Systems
In a world increasingly reliant on speedy, wireless data communication, research into new mediums for faster and more reliable data transfer is imperative. As conventional radio-based commun…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are astrophysical explosions that release more energy in a few seconds than the sun releases in its entire 10 billion year lifetime. This project studies short-durati…
Physics and Astronomy
With the rise in quantum computing’s potential to break current encryption schemes, new methods of data encryption are needed to keep messages secure. Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) presents…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Crouch gait is a complex pattern of movement that affects 150,000 children with conditions such as cerebral palsy, spina bifida, or spinal cord injuries. Crouch gait severely limits mobility…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Fourth Award
Health and environmental problems result from both the release of dyes into ecosystems and greenhouse gas emissions from energy generation via fossil fuel combustion. To create a cost-effect…
Biochemistry
Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer death around the world; However, Black women are disproportionately affected as they are more likely to develop triple negative breast cancer and h…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Motor neurons are the essential cells connecting the brain and muscles, translating our thoughts and needs into actions and response. Here, we analyze a previously published dataset to explo…
Physics and Astronomy
First Award
Astigmatism is a cylindrical imperfection of the optical system of the eye that normally should be spherical. The optometry of astigmatism, so-called subjective refraction, involves multiple…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Third Award
Cubesats are small, lightweight satellites that allow researchers to conduct experiments and collect data from Low Earth Orbit (LEO); however, the costs to launch these satellites oftentimes…
Translational Medical Science
Liver cysts characterize a multitude of illnesses ranging from liver cancer to autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). About 1 in 20 people have at least one liver cyst (Cnosse…
Biomedical Engineering
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is cancer to the blood and bone marrow, and its incidence spikes in very young children. Early detection and treatment is key to full recovery. Detection h…
Translational Medical Science
COVID-19 is caused by an RNA virus called SARS-CoV-2. PCR testing is a gold-standard method for COVID-19 diagnostic testing. However, there exists no COVID-19 diagnostic test that has the ca…
Embedded Systems
Smart Sole is one of the first technologies to make gait analysis readily available for any person seeking to study walking body mechanics from the comfort of their own home. The device is p…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Does social confidence increase or diminish with age? I wanted to test various ages and see if they had enough confidence to speak up when they noticed an error. People would want to know th…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Abstract – In contrast to the rigid and skeletal design of traditional robots, soft robots are bionic prototypes that emulate soft and flexible creatures in nature (such as caterpillars and…
Plant Sciences
Inspired by the low and declining cropland microorganism populations in agriculture today, the goal of my study was to determine if specific cropland soil adjustments could better prepare so…