Biomedical and Health Sciences
Epilepsy is a terrible disease characterized by spontaneous recurrent seizures that negatively impact the day to day lives of affected patients. In addition to seizures, epilepsy patients al…
Chemistry
The mid-infrared (mid-IR) range on the electromagnetic spectrum is a crucial band for numerous industrial applications of cameras ranging from biomedical sensing to free-space communication.…
Materials Science
Three dimensional (3D) printing technology has been generating over 14 billion USD in 2019 and is projected to grow to 35.6 billion USD by 2024. Leveraging high-resolution additive 3D manufa…
Microbiology
The question asked was “how does ultraviolet irradiation and restriction enzymes characterize bacteriophage infecting Mycobacterium smegmatis?”. The purpose was to determine if an isolated b…
Engineering Mechanics
The purpose was to determine how a concrete mix design of personal development (RG3) will perform against a certified mix of 3,600 PSI (Pounds per Square Inch) and how this new mix (RG3) wil…
Physics and Astronomy
Dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) around the Milky Way are the best approaches to dark matter(DM) search and study. They can ultimately provide insight into the merit of the Cold D…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microfibers are tiny threads of plastic and a large contributor to plastic pollution. Millions enter the environment through washing machine effluent. Fiber shedding can be reduced by alteri…
Engineering Mechanics
The goal of this research was to demonstrate that Biphasic CO2 is a viable alternative to liquid coolants used in subtractive manufacturing, in all ways: health, environmentally, and functio…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In the past century, global temperatures and emissions of carbon dioxide have increased. This project's purpose was to see how variations of carbon dioxide levels affected the temperatures o…
Materials Science
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the most potent greenhouse gases contributing to climate change, trapping heat and raising the average temperature of the atmosphere. There are a lot of talks…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In response to the growing concerns of coastal protection brought by climate change and habitat destruction, this experiment attempted to scientifically model the collision behavior between…
Chemistry
The conversion of sunlight into heat is an effective way to utilize solar energy. PCM’s, such as waxes or fatty acids, are able to store heat at high temperatures and release heat at lower t…
Engineering Mechanics
Over the past decade the U.S. Military's fighter jets have improved in engine performance, aerodynamics, avionics, and overall aircraft structure, which enables the F-22 to reach speeds high…
Embedded Systems
The CDC estimates that 25% of people with diabetes will develop foot ulcerations (2014). When even mildly traumatic foot injuries are not detected immediately, ulcerations may develop and be…
Chemistry
The transition metals exhibit various colors due to the absorption of certain wavelength of photons by electrons when they are jumping from lower to higher energy level in the d orbit. The v…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Familial Alzheimer’s Disease (FAD) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disease in which patients experience neurodegeneration and symptoms such as worsened memory, trouble learning, and motor…
Animal Sciences
This project’s purpose was to determine if a malnourishing diet negatively affects development and cognition in D. melanogaster, if consuming eggs reduces those effects, and whether childhoo…
Biomedical Engineering
When diagnosing the presence of pathogenic microbes, direct imaging of live microbes in situ even in a drop of liquid is very challenging as they move and spread out in the entire volume. Di…
Plant Sciences
Poor ventilation and sub-par construction methods cause the proliferation of indoor air pollution, especially in lower-income nations. Specifically, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) pose a…
Microbiology
Sucralose is a non-nutritive sweetener heavily marketed in commercial foods and beverages which is mixed with maltodextrin and widely distributed a well know sugar substitute. Sucralose is m…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study compares the effectiveness of two types of equine-assisted therapy on reducing anxiety in teenagers. Equine-assisted therapy is a therapy method that involves working with horses…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this project is to compare a K-Nearest-Neighbor (KNN) algorithm with an Artificial-Neural-Network (ANN) in terms of their accuracy when detecting humans by use of thermal imag…
Plant Sciences
Does inducing auxin inhibit the plant to grow and bend towards the light? Understanding how phytohormones affect plants is vital as they are widely used in agriculture. Auxin is a class of p…
Mathematics
In the abelian sandpile model, recurrent chip configurations are of interest as they are a natural choice of coset representatives under the quotient of the reduced Laplacian. We investigate…
Microbiology
Natural products from marine organisms and endophytic fungi have been proposed as groundbreaking because of their potential for supplying novel compounds unknown to the biological system. 10…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The tumor suppressor protein p53, also known as the “guardian of the genome,” is known for its various protective functions in the cell ranging from cell cycle regulation to apoptosis. The p…
Chemistry
Targeting DNA is a viable solution to treating cancer. Although many DNA intercalators are effective, they have deleterious effects on DNA structure and negative side effects for the patient…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Melody has always been the quintessential focus of musicological analysis, and its different intervallic structures are related to the listener’s psychological expectancy according to the Im…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Synesthesia is a condition in which a stimulation of one sense causes a response in another sense. This study focused on chromesthesia, a form of synesthesia where affected people visualize…
Environmental Engineering
This project aims to produce and test a prototype aid in water conservation within a domestic, consumer context. A specialized recirculating faucet system was built using direct filtration t…