Engineering Mechanics
Fourth Award
Research shows that approximately 10 million Americans have essential tremors. Of these 10 million, 4-5% begin tremors as young as 40 years old. There is also a 50% chance of a child inherit…
Biomedical Engineering
Second Award
The ARTHETA-0 is a 3D printer with a novel motion system that specializes in printing vascular-stents. The stent manufacturing industry, as it stands, uses extremely inefficient and unafford…
Environmental Engineering
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) have been recognized as an increasingly severe threat to many communities with far-ranging consequences for environmental conditions, economic prosperity, and hum…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The integration of A.I. into homes, workplaces and transportation has increased with the development of new technology. Voice-activation and interaction is required to use and perceive these…
Engineering Mechanics
First Award
The self-replicating machine will revolutionize human industry. Not only will self-replicating factories raise the standard of living across the globe, but it is also a vital step toward a s…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
In recent years, many severe and destructive wildfires have plagued the state of California. Extreme fire conditions, such as drought, that occur especially during autumn months in Californi…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Overwatering and underwatering are widespread issues with environmental, financial, and safety consequences. Current approaches to assessing grass water use efficiency (WUE) are inaccessible…
Translational Medical Science
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), a type of dementia, is attributed to the overproduction of the amyloid-beta (Aß) protein caused by the cleavage of the amyloid precursor protein. This project focus…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
To limit the spread of COVID-19, government policies are necessary. Current research focuses primarily on documenting proposed policies rather than assessing the efficacy of said proposals.…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The transforming growth factor beta (TGFB) superfamily consists of a group of regulatory proteins that bind to membrane receptors and generate an intracellular signal to regulate cellular pr…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Reinforcement learning is a form of machine learning that trains a digital model by associating a reward value with different actions based on how beneficial they are. Several algorithms hav…
Biomedical Engineering
Second Award
216,262,500. That’s the number of steps an average human takes over their lifetime, yet the shoes that humans use for this have not evolved over time and are found to have major flaws such a…
Animal Sciences
A study of abundance and diversity of pollinators in four urban gardens in downtown Eureka Springs and two trails by Black Bass lake to be used in the local pollinator conservation effort an…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Antibiotic pollution in soils and groundwater is one of the world’s most pressing problems. There are 1.4µg of antibiotics per-liter of freshwater and 125,000 tons of antibiotics polluted ev…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The purpose of this project is to see if Atrazine passes its negative effect on the sensory, motor, and learning behaviors of planaria to the second generation planaria. The second generatio…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
A randomized controlled trial was run over the course of a 5 week period on 40 high school students to investigate the effects of simulation racing (SR) on attentional control. Prior researc…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
With the inherent interconnectivity of online communications comes the presence of disinformation. While the utilization of disinformation by individuals is harmful, the tactic is worse when…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
Alzheimer’s Disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that results in memory loss and a general cognitive decline, afflicting approximately 45 million people worldwide with the rate…
Animal Sciences
Mosquitoes are small and deadly pests. They transmit various diseases, causing over 700,000 human deaths annually, making mosquito control essential. A novel mosquito trap, the In2Care trap,…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Melanoma is one of the most fatal forms of skin cancer and is often very difficult to differentiate from other benign skin lesions. However, if detected at its early stages, it can almost al…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder that affects communication and behavioral skills. People with ASD show atypical attention to social stimuli and gaze at human faces…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this project is to develop and compare a set of various neural network architectures to track the location of Muscle Tendon Junction in ultrasound footage. An accurate and eff…
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this experiment was to create a cost-effective, portable, automated UVC sterilizing system that kills bacteria on money through the sanitizing properties of UVC light. Multipl…
Engineering Mechanics
Fourth Award
Even with all the basketball return chutes on the market, basketball players–including my sister–have no options when it comes to an affordable and reliable basketball return chute. After he…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The COVID-19 Pandemic is our biggest challenge with already over 100 million infections and 2.4 million deaths globally. Employers are following CDC guidelines by creating mask mandates, req…
Biomedical Engineering
Second Award
Microorganisms are observed every day in the hopes of finding new developments that will help gain new insights into human health. Many organisms move quite fast under the microscope's field…
Engineering Mechanics
The purpose of this project is to design and construct an autonomous or manually controlled inexpensive UAV prototype that can assist in information gathering for the civilian population. Ev…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
In recent decades, there's been an alarming increase in bacterial evasion of antibiotic treatments, necessitating an improved understanding of resistance, tolerance, and persistence. Resista…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
Based on prior studies, Avian Paramyxovirus Serotype 4 (APMV-4) has shown a rapid apoptotic cell death response within tumors in complement with the upregulation of stimulated immune signals…
Physics and Astronomy
Wood laminates are sandwiched layers of wood glued together to distribute forces to increase its load-bearing capabilities. Laminated timber is used in vertical and horizontal beams that exp…