Physics and Astronomy
Isochrones are the most common tool used to calculate the age of stellar clusters, and they subsequently provide valuable insight into processes such as stellar evolution. Current isochrones…
Animal Sciences
Striped bass, of great recreational and commercial importance, are currently overfished and their population is in decline. Understanding the current state of Maine striped bass populations…
Environmental Engineering
Although recycling is a common practice in many societies, the large volume of waste and the high cost of recycling these materials has led to global problems. Much of the waste is shipped t…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders worldwide, and the unpredictable nature of epileptic seizures makes life challenging for many patients. The objective of this study…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Marine biotoxins such as domoic acid (DA), a neurotoxin produced by the diatom Pseudo-nitzschia spp., and paralytic shellfish poison (PSP), a neurotoxic byproduct of the saxitoxin-producing…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
My research identifies novel ways to predict recurrence in triple-negative breast cancer patients. I used multiplexed ion beam imaging to analyze cell prevalence and protein expression in th…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Approximately 44 million people worldwide live with Alzheimer’s disease or a related form of dementia. Alzheimer’s is particularly difficult to diagnose because the symptoms occur after the…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Chronic stress, a disorder marked by dangerously prolonged stress levels, is becoming increasingly widespread, and current diagnostic methods are inadequate to address the issue. The sole pu…
Systems Software
In the United States, medical devices are regulated and subject to review by the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) before they can be marketed. Novel medical devices have to undergo a pre…
Materials Science
Lithium-ion batteries have been used as a power source in many applications such as mobile electronics and electric vehicles. However, the current Li-ion battery technology does not fully sa…
Chemistry
The purpose of this investigation was to find the catalytic abilities of clay, and to determine if clay could have served as a catalyst for the creation of biomolecules during the prebiotic-…
Biomedical Engineering
This project develops a wearable wireless sensor system and artificial-intelligence-based algorithms to automatically recognize specific daily activities performed by a human subject. The sp…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
There are four wildlife sanctuaries in Oahu and all are in desperate need of help. In our investigation, we gathered information about the problems with one of the sanctuaries, Pouhala Marsh…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This study investigates the relationship between the El Niño-Southern Oscillation Cycle (ENSO) and the number and strength of hurricanes in any recent year, as well as their translation (mov…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In this project, a dichotomous key developed by archeologist David Hurst Thomas for the classification of projectile points from Monitor Valley, Nevada, was used to classify points from the…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
One of my best friends struggles with Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenital which fuses your bones and stiffens your muscles. In her case disables her upper body functions and disables her to…
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of this experiment was to explore the impact that the angle of elevation of a surface has on two interfering hydraulic jumps. The system used for this experiment was constructed…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The role of oxybenzone in our ocean is bleaching the coral reef. The purpose of this experiment was to determine the effectiveness of using a native plant, Naupaka Kahakai, as an active ingr…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
More than 2 billion people on Earth lack clean drinking water (UNDP Human Development Report 2019). Right now, randomly packed structures are the way to filtrate. The philosophy behind these…
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to analyze the effect of Extracted Pectin (XP) placement on a shallow-rooted seed in a Sand growth medium. Extracted pectin was placed in a Sand growth med…
Physics and Astronomy
Quantum neural networks (QNNs) provide efficient data analysis through large feature Hilbert spaces and could solve classically-intractable particle physics problems. However, current resear…
Systems Software
Quarkz is an algorithm I have created which solves both personal and national cybersecurity issues with upcoming quantum supremacy. Quarkz is based on RSA encryption, which can be decrypted…
Translational Medical Science
Radiology is the field of medicine concerned with the interpretation of imaging of the human body for disease diagnosis. Most major forms of medical imaging scans occur within one hour or le…
Biomedical Engineering
Breast cancer is the most prominent cancer found in women. In the US, one in every eight women will develop invasive breast cancer in their lifetime. The current annual rate of women dying f…
Embedded Systems
Falls are the leading cause of fatal injury among older adults with over 12 million falls in the United States annually. For elderly people living alone, quick assistance after a fall is cri…
Biomedical Engineering
There are over 289 million people with visual disabilities worldwide and that number is expected to grow to 579 million in only 3 decades due to a large aging population. Current techniques…
Biomedical Engineering
Epilepsy threatens the lives and freedom of around 50 million individuals worldwide annually. Predicting epileptic episodes (seizures) would increase the quality of life of epileptics. Howev…
Plant Sciences
Due to heavy metal pollution in soil around the world, many countries are not able to maximize their farmland usage. While removing the toxic metals is possible, current methods are not viab…
Biochemistry
I aim to modify a preexisting centrifuge force microscopy (CFM) to explore protein crystallization under hypergravity. Proteins are involved in every aspect of cellular life, performing a va…
Animal Sciences
In 2019, over 3.2 million adolescents aged 12-17 experienced symptoms of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), and 73% of adolescents who experienced MDD did not get enough sleep per night. Depre…