Earth and Environmental Sciences
Second Award
Estimating the intensity of tropical cyclones (TCs) is one of the most important aspects in TC forecasts. Currently, the operational method of TC intensity estimation is the Dvorak Technique…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
Scoliosis is a condition of abnormal spinal curvature with approximately 60,000 U.S. pediatric patients undergoing surgery or being placed into braces each year. Skeletal maturity assessment…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The most commonly administered chemotherapeutic agent in Glioblastoma (GBM) treatment, Temozolomide (TMZ), fails to generate a clinically significant response in over 50% of patients due to…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Cancer threatens millions of individuals every year and remains a central issue in the scientific community. It’s important to search for new alternative treatments, and anticancer peptides…
Translational Medical Science
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is the sudden onset of kidney damage in which the kidneys cannot filter waste from the blood, requiring emergency hospitalization. AKI patient mortality rate is hig…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Breast cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women globally. Advanced diagnosis of intrinsic molecular subtype is key to evaluating intermediate survival; however, b…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Approximately 200 million people worldwide are affected by arsenic-contaminated water for reasons such as drinking tube well groundwater. In 2019, the author created a novel and inexpensive…
Translational Medical Science
Colorectal cancer(CRC) ranks third in occurrence and second in mortality among all cancers. Current CRC identification methods are often ineffective due to the invasiveness of such procedure…
Embedded Systems
Fourth Award
The CDC recommends that people wash their hands before and after touching their mask, and only touch it by the ear loops. However, as masks have become ubiquitous over the past year, it has…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
Much of the exoplanet transit data from the Kepler space telescope remains unanalyzed, especially in the search for habitability. To enable the investigation of Kepler exoplanets without the…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The ability to precisely measure cell permeability will be a necessary asset in the future development of intracellular antibiotics. The efficacy of the antibiotic vancomycin is reliant on c…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Humans have fallen in love with plastics, from toys, to food containers, to bags, and straws. Scientists have been researching and warning about plastic pollution in the ocean for decades. T…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Cancer is a leading cause of human death worldwide, yet quick and accurate identification of the primary cancer site is still lacking. Owing to its ability to differentiate similar tumors an…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
Current upper limb prostheses lack effective and intuitive control systems and are often exorbitantly expensive. As a result, while prosthesis use can significantly increase quality of life,…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Anxiety disorders affect 284 million people worldwide, yet anxiety diagnostic and intervention tools remain largely inaccessible, unaffordable, and stigmatized. Thus, there is an urgent need…
Chemistry
Due to a decrease in traditional energy sources, the demand for solar energy has started to rise through the use of silicon solar cells. However, its high production costs prevent its mass u…
Translational Medical Science
Shown to ameliorate the symptoms or even target the root pathology of conditions ranging from cancer to chronic pain, cannabis and its derivatives have the potential to improve the quality o…
Biochemistry
The main purpose of the research project was to identify if there were any prevalent nucleotide patterns associated with excess expression pro-apoptotic genes (orthologous or paralogous) in…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
The effects of wide binary star systems on the formation and evolution of exoplanets are relatively unknown. A large portion of exoplanets reside in wide binary systems, so fully understandi…
Biochemistry
Third Award
Proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H-NMR) spectroscopy is commonly used in metabolomics studies involving the quantitation of complex bio-fluids and mixtures to correlate metabolic changes…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
Current techniques of target identification in drug development are costly, lengthy, and function with high degrees of uncertainty that a drug can succeed in modulating a target. To address…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Seizures, sudden bursts of electrical activity in cortical neurons, occur frequently in neonates (1-28 days old) and are a common emergency in the NICU. Timely and proper treatment is crucia…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Wolbachia, a species of endosymbiotic intracellular bacteria found in a diverse set of species, is most notable for its role in vector control strategies to reduce the spread of diseases tha…
Environmental Engineering
There is a growing need for a cost-effective arsenic treatment. Historical and current industrial use of arsenic have resulted in soil and groundwater contamination, leading to polluted well…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
I strongly believe that a cost-effective, highly sensitive, and easy-to-use Point of Care (POC) multi-biomarker diagnostic device has the potential to increase health equity, this is especia…
Engineering Mechanics
Second Award
Today, when we drive cars there is no indication of dangerous road conditions that could cause issues such as hydroplaning. Rain is substantially more dangerous than the other conditions bec…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Lead and cadmium have many adverse effects on the environment and human body, ranging from developmental hindrance to affecting vital organs within the human body. Lead and cadmium poisoning…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In this study, the effect of nitrate concentrations on the anuran species abundance in aquatic habitats across Long Island was investigated. Anurans are frogs and toads. With recent declines…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Shiga toxin-producing E. coli-induced convulsions/seizures will affect the expressions of Drosophila melanogaster (common fruit flies). This is due to the fact that Shiga toxin-producing E.…
Animal Sciences
Our project is testing to see if AI calves or Bull Bred calves have a more efficient growth rate. We did get our project approved by our vet in town. This project is about animal science and…