Earth and Environmental Sciences
This research explores the use of naturally sourced sediments as a base for flocculants to mitigate Florida red tide (Karenia brevis) blooms. Flocculation is the process of removing Karenia…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Galactic Cosmic Rays are primarily composed of protons (85%), helium (14%), and (~1%) high charge-high energy ions (HZE) such as 56Fe, 28Si, and 16O. Humans are normally not exposed to HZE i…
Systems Software
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, with up to a third of all deaths each year attributable to the disease. Early detection allows for more reliable tr…
Engineering Mechanics
The center of gravity of a rocket is imperative to the stability of the rocket during its flight. To remain stable over the course of a flight or a burn, the center of gravity of a mid-scale…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Current research suggests that toxic tau aggregates propagate from neuron to neuron in a prion-like manner. However, no dynamic proof exists to trace tau’s transmission and traffic in neurod…
Animal Sciences
Despite pronounced negative side effects on developing babies, 10.7% of women smoke regularly during pregnancy. In hopes of reducing smoking during pregnancy, nicotine patches, vaping, and o…
Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
Invasive species are a growing threat to biodiversity. Crocodilians have been impacted by many invasive species including pythons and cane toads, and the effects on these apex predators and…
Physics and Astronomy
Black holes exhibit extraordinary behavior unparalleled in the known universe, providing the opportunity for experimental insight into determinism, extra dimensions, and the intersection of…
Mathematics
Cooperative games are systems in which entities, players, can join to form subsets, known as coalitions. While players contribute varying amounts, known as marginal impacts, to different coa…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Everyday, 115 Americans die from opioid overdose. These opioids, such as morphine, are often used as pain-management therapeutics. However, morphine and other synthetic drugs induce adverse…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Gold nanoparticles, gold nanorods (GNRs) more specifically, are being studied for their innovative applications in imaging, targeting, therapeutics, and potential for a revolution in medical…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Brachytherapy is a cancer treatment procedure that implants applicators, often catheters and needles, for the delivery of a sealed radiation dose. While brachytherapy enables precise targeti…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
This project investigated the relationship between long-term trends (1980-2017) in tropical cyclone (TC) intensity and the TC wind speed evolution within the Western Tropical Atlantic (WTA)…
Systems Software
With the growing presence of networks and network structure models, algorithms for optimization, most notably the Dijkstra's algorithm, play a crucial role in the society. However, this algo…
Engineering Mechanics
When it comes to small, versatile, capable, and durable robots that can be used for search and rescue or exploration, there are few, if any, available. The goal of this project is to design…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Each year, more people die of lung cancer than colon, breast, pancreas, and prostate cancers combined. Lung cancer survival rates decline from 75% in early stages to 5% when detected late. Y…
Environmental Engineering
PURPOSE: Daily activities like driving a car, charging a phone and many other routine activities leave a carbon footprint by releasing carbon dioxide into our air. Atmospheric levels of carb…
Microbiology
Third Award
Central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) in patients cause an attributable mortality of up to 35%. Colonizing bacteria grow by forming a biofilm which protects against antibi…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
The decades long trend of transistor size reduction has recently faced a roadblock because of its reliance on already extremely scaled silicon transistors. However, atomically thin semicondu…
Biomedical Engineering
In the U.S., catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are responsible for 449,334 diagnoses/yearly, 13,000 deaths/yearly, and medical expenses of over $450 million/yearly. The c…
Environmental Engineering
Background: Mussels are increasingly being utilized as a natural method to remove and filter harmful algae and other natural debris from our water systems. In the context of concerns for cli…
Biomedical Engineering
I built a navigational white cane whose purpose is to help the visually impaired navigate around objects more easily. Since I found few equivalent devices on the market for the visually impa…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This study examined the effects of a treatment protocol for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) consisting of near infrared light (NIR) and C. longa. Mutated D. melanogaster, engineered to express the…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Negative-pressure-wound-therapy (NPWT), a wound-closure technique used following tumor resection has been suggested to promote metastasis. As this claim isn’t well established and the molecu…
Animal Sciences
The purpose of this project is to understand the effects sugar has on Caenorhabditis elegans and humans. The hypothesis stated High–Fructose Corn Syrup (HFC) would have the greatest effect o…
Translational Medical Science
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death every year throughout the world, lung cancer and breast cancer are the most prevalent. The purpose of the project Neural Networks and Cancer is t…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Complications associated with robotic surgery are on the rise, in part, due to surgeons not receiving proper training prior to operation. To improve performance and accelerate learning in ro…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
The SmartSleeve is a non-invasive wearable device that can provide real-time physiological and clinical measurements with wireless embedded sensing technology will improve the rehabilitation…
Systems Software
A novel method of generating pseudo-random numbers (pRNG) using Hamiltonian-Dynamical systems is presented in this paper. Traditional pRNGs such as the Xorshift and the Mersenne Twister algo…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The mathematical analysis of human growth, from the zygote to the adult, is key to determining long and short term health and longevity. Many studies prior have sought to develop a systemati…