Mathematics
Traffic congestion is one of the most persistent urban challenges in the United States, costing Atlanta-area commuters over 65 hours and approximately $1,164 per driver in 2024. Traffic cong…
Physics and Astronomy
IC 4634 is a planetary nebula with a striking double-S shape, whose curved arcs and distant knots preserve a record of its outflow history. This study presents the first 3D morpho-kinematic…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Between 2020 and 2024, fatal occupational falls averaged 782 annually, peaking at 865 in 2022, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Many occurred in high risk environments like skys…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Food allergy (FA) affects 18% of the population and is driven by type-2 inflammation, epithelial barrier dysfunction, and tight junction (TJ) disruption. Recent studies identify Zonulin and…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) affects 55 million people worldwide, leading to progressive cognitive decline, brain cell death, and brain shrinkage. Current treatments offer only limited relief, u…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Ischemic injury causes neuronal loss and neurological deficits, challenging stroke recovery. After injury, a glial scar forms, but its regulation of neural stem cell (NSC) fate remains uncle…
Translational Medical Science
Anxiety is an ever-growing issue plaguing modern society as it becomes more prevalent in young adults and adolescents, particularly Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). Despite the existence…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
As climate change intensifies, millions of lives are also increasingly threatened by energy insecurity, meaning renewable energy has become critical. Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) or organic…
Animal Sciences
This project is about bee life and how we can help them survive all year round. I have been studying bees and expanding this project every year for the past 3 years. I have done several diff…
Environmental Engineering
This research investigated whether the presence of pure copper bars in water containers is associated with changes in visible algae growth and water quality indicators in an agricultural set…
Embedded Systems
Analog circuit synthesis poses complex optimization problems in high-dimensional design spaces, where integrated circuit (IC) designers must employ laborious, manual parameter tuning to sati…
Animal Sciences
Bison are highly efficient grazers that convert forage into high-quality protein, making growth efficiency an important factor in livestock production. Weight per day of age (WDA) is a key m…
Animal Sciences
Pygmy and dwarf sperm whales (Kogia breviceps and Kogia sima) are deep-diving cetaceans with limited internal health data due to low visibility. Necropsies often reveal stomach infestations…
Translational Medical Science
Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, and early detection significantly improves survival outcomes. Subsolid pulmonary nodules, including ground-glass…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The gut and adipose tissue work in concert to modulate metabolic health and the immune system by producing short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs). FFAR2 signaling plays a vital role in regulating m…
Software Design
Soybean diseases cause substantial annual yield losses. Existing detection methods rely on experts or lab examinations of fields, which can be labor intensive and inaccurate, or image classi…
Translational Medical Science
Alzheimer's disease (AD) impacts approximately 55 million people globally and is predicted to affect 139 million individuals by 2050. As most diagnoses occur after substantial neurodegenerat…
Translational Medical Science
Purpose: Laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) causes over 100,000 deaths annually worldwide. While adjuvant radiotherapy after surgical resection can reduce the risk of recurrence and im…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Microplastics have been a growing problem within the biomedical and health fields. However, mechanistic links between dietary exposure, molecular interaction, physiological impact, and mitig…
Chemistry
This project investigates the multi-spectroscopic characterization of Cobalt(II) meso-Tetra(4-sulfonatophenyl)Porphine (CoTPPS) and its metal-free counterpart, TPPS, under varying concentrat…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Music reduces stress and improves health by affecting the autonomic nervous system, and transcriptomic studies show it increases alpha-synuclein (SNCA), which regulates neuronal activity. Al…
Microbiology
Quorum Sensing (QS) is a bacterial communication pathway that mediates population-based activity such as virulence and biofilm formation. Specifically, QS affects biofilm maturation, includi…
Software Design
Data clustering is an unsupervised machine learning technique that groups similar data points together based on their characteristics. Although numerous data clustering algorithms have been…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This project investigates the issue of dust accumulation on solar-powered Martian rovers, testing the efficiency of three cleaning methods: automatic tilting, wiping, and Electrodynamic Dust…
Biomedical Engineering
Major challenges exist in detecting infectious diseases early on as biomarker concentrations are often below the limit of detection (LoD) of conventional assays. This detection failure leads…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Automotive spoilers are critical for vehicle safety, reducing pressure drag and generating downward force to increase tire traction and stability. However, spoilers inherently create aerodyn…
Translational Medical Science
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) causes the gradual loss of neurons, which leads to memory and cognitive problems. Due to the inability to replace the lost neurons, current treatments cannot stop or…
Translational Medical Science
Intracranial aneurysms (IAs) often rupture before detection, causing hemorrhagic stroke that is fatal in 50% of cases. Expensive ($800 - $8400) hospital-based diagnostic tests are conducted…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Stroke is a critical global health issue, and many cases are preventable if risk factors are identified early. Current risk assessment approaches often separate behavioral and neurophysiolog…
Translational Medical Science
Purpose: Neuroblastoma and glioblastoma are highly aggressive malignant neural tumors affecting pediatric and adult populations respectively. Both are associated with very poor prognoses des…