Mathematics
In my research, I redefined the Hardy- Ramanujan Formula that was created in 1917. This formula is used to depict the numbers of ways any integer can be split up, known as integer partitions…
Environmental Engineering
The excessive production of cow manure in New Mexico is an environmental concern. Simultaneously, cement, the main ingredient in concrete, leads the world as one of the biggest producers of…
Microbiology
This research stems from the growing threat of antibiotic resistance, lack of a swift and efficient drug delivery system, and the necessity of precision medicine in cancer and viral treatmen…
Physics and Astronomy
First Award
Transistors themselves have not fundamentally changed in decades, with all advances in the field focused on merely decreasing the size of transistors. This is a problem as soon it will be im…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Solar tracking is a technique used to increase the energy efficiency of a solar panel by orienting solar panels to face the sun as it travels across the sky. Challenges faced by solar tracki…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
Alzheimer’s disease (AD), affecting >50 million individuals worldwide, is characterized by a progressive loss of cognitive function for which no effective therapies currently exist. To ident…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Car rollovers are common accidents on the road, resulting in 39,000 fatalities and numerous injuries every year. This research project proposes an original method of dynamically shifting the…
Systems Software
As technology increasingly impacts daily life, technological interaction is critical to the future of equity and health. In an effort to advance this interaction, the researcher sought to de…
Animal Sciences
Soft egg shells in the egg production business result in a loss of profit. A soft egg is when the shell does not form into a hard layer, but a flimsy, easily-punctured covering. If vitamin D…
Environmental Engineering
95% of the giant kelp forests along California coastlines have been devoured by the overpopulated purple urchins, and the current solution of relying on divers to reduce urchin numbers is la…
Environmental Engineering
This study was done to determine if mealworm gut bacteria could again be quantified, isolated using differential media, identified, and then further used to biodegrade polystyrene (PS). The…
Systems Software
WatchfuLock is a near-impenetrable identity verification and security system that uses facial recognition and eye tracking to reliably determine authorized users from potential intruders. Th…
Embedded Systems
Second Award
Drone development has been on the rise since the turn of the century and has expanded greatly from government use. Most high quality drones tend to be expensive and have a limited feature se…
Systems Software
Watersheds are regions where water flows into a common outlet, commonly considered with respect to terrain, climate, vegetation, fauna, and human constructions. Watersheds are particularly i…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is an incurable disease that hinders the ability of kidneys to filter the blood effectively and in most cases result in renal failure that force patients to depe…
Materials Science
Leather is used almost everyday. You would be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn't own a leather product. This project was designed to test what product would work best for protecting le…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In the previous decade, cyanobacteria blooms in rivers have grown in both intensity and frequency due to climate change and water pollution, which are results of human activity. These blooms…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Annually approximately 20,000 people are wrongfully accused and imprisoned for crimes. Key eyewitnesses are often relied upon to help make these convictions. Cognitive Psychology studies the…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Chemotherapy resistance remains a challenge in treating cancer. There are many factors that can affect resistance, and it is not fully understood. PRPF39 is a pre-mRNA processing factor that…
Microbiology
Many questions have arisen about the effectiveness of masks, especially during the pandemic. In this project, the young scientist will attempt to answer some of these questions by observing…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is a devastating eye disease affecting more than 10 million Americans like my great-grandmother. AMD is a neurodegenerative disease that affects the ma…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Analyses of voter turnout rates in the United States have established that nearly half of eligible American voters consistently choose not to participate in elections (Roberts, 2009). This t…
Embedded Systems
As America ages, it's estimated that by 2024, nearly 45% of the country's population will be over the age of 50. While retirement years may be filled with travel, hobbies, and time with fami…
Systems Software
The up to ninety-minute sessions that many patients spend in Magnetic Resonance Imaging machines, due to slow MRI data acquisition rates lead to blurry images, onsets of claustrophobia, hear…
Environmental Engineering
In a world where water pollution extends well into the domestic world, accessible treatment solutions are more important than ever. Three years of prior research have proven enzyme-assisted…
Animal Sciences
First Award
Honeybees are essential to society, performing over 80 percent of worldwide pollination. However, commercial hive populations have been decreasing at an alarming rate in the United States. R…
Animal Sciences
Radiotherapy is a cancer treatment that causes an excess of free radicals, which can induce a variety of chronic and degenerative diseases. Curcumin and piperine, potent antioxidants, exhibi…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
The purpose of this project was to determine if vertical migration occurs among any of the zooplankton populations in the littoral zone of Lake Springfield. Samples were collected on five se…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
One of the biggest factors holding intelligent robots back from becoming part of our lives is the difficulty they have navigating the complex and unstructured 3D spaces we live in. This is b…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Recent research has shown that neural networks are vulnerable to errors caused by adversarial attacks; when carefully crafted, imperceptible noise is added to inputs, a neural network classi…