Plant Sciences
Leersia oryzoides, a wild relative of rice (Oryza sativa), may carry potential seed-borne bacterial endophytes which could be used to enhance growth of rice. It was hypothesized that seed-as…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
With an ~70% fatality rate, ovarian cancer is classified as the deadliest gynecological malignancy. Recent gene therapy using p53 failed. An alternative approach to wild type (wt) p53 is mit…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
During the progression of metastatic cancer, peripheral cells break away from the primary tumor and acquire the ability to intravasate into the circulatory and lymphatic systems. These invas…
Systems Software
Isolated from the reach of Western medicine, many developing nations lack access to skilled physicians and expensive equipment such as otoscopes, skin biopsy tools, and ophthalmoscopes. As a…
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to analyze the effect of Extracted Pectin (XP) on various seed growth mediums. Brassica oleracea seeds were planted in Black Clay, Lactuca sativa seeds wer…
Energy: Chemical
Hybrid organic-inorganic lead halide perovskite solar cells, PVSCs, have emerged in the past decade as a promising, low cost, thin film photovoltaic device with the power conversion efficien…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Cancer cells have a homing ability and are able to track cells of their own kind. Because of this constant communication and close proximity, cancer cells could be used as targeted weapons t…
Biochemistry
Acyclovir is an antiviral drug used in the treatment of Herpes Labialis, a difficult to treat viral infection affecting over 140 million people worldwide. Traditionally, administration of Ac…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The goal of this research is to find a cure for cancer. Breast and Cervical cancers are very aggressive forms of cancer. Polyphenols, in green tea, have an anti-cancer effect. Phase I resear…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Indian classical music is an improvisational form of music based on ragas, melodic frameworks which are passed down through a fading oral tradition. I aimed to provide computational predicti…
Chemistry
Third Award
First time, soybean is investigated for supercapacitor application, because of its importance towards Arkansas’s economy. In this project, phosphorous and nitrogen co-doped carbon (PNDC) was…
Environmental Engineering
Air pollution has become the deadliest environmental problem, leading to more than seven million deaths per year. People are forced to wear masks in China to protect themselves from the heav…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Stem cell therapy is a novel and promising strategy that shows strong potential to treat heart disease, particularly heart attacks (myocardial infarction) and heart failure. Stem cells are u…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Increased telomerase activity and sustained telomeres are hallmarks of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and encourage cancer growth by inhibiting cellular apoptosis. This study analyzes Pi…
Microbiology
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Physics and Astronomy
Plasmas, such as an aurora borealis or a lightning strike, are a fundamental state of matter that can provide solutions to Earth's greatest challenges. However, this growing field of physics…
Physics and Astronomy
In performing an in-depth statistical analysis of the makeup of existing exoplanet datasets, this project aims to identify an innovative and low cost method for making further strides in exo…
Engineering Mechanics
Fourth Award
The scarcity of drinkable water is becoming a worldwide, where 2.7 billion people find water scarce for at least a month out of the year. This scarcity puts an emphasis on developing new met…
Environmental Engineering
Many people in the world, especially in rural locations, are under high water scarcity; however, many of these areas grow banana plants, which require a large amount of water. The hypothesis…
Biomedical Engineering
To diagnose a concussion or other traumatic brain injury, a physician will have to conduct a MRI, CT scan, or an EEG, all of which are lengthy processes. Many careers have come to a halt due…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
Hypodiploid B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) is a high-risk form of acute leukemia with a dismal prognosis. Because standard chemotherapy is largely ineffective for this subtype,…
Embedded Systems
Concussions are dangerous injuries that can have immediate as well as long term effects. They have been shown to cause dizziness, confusion, and loss of consciousness in the short term and s…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The toll of earthquake aftershocks, which are potentially even more dangerous than mainshock earthquakes, presents a problem well-suited to machine learning. The occurrence of aftershocks ov…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Opioid Use Disorder (OUD), defined as a physical or psychological reliance on opioids, is quickly becoming a public health epidemic. This project develops a supervised machine learning appro…
Mathematics
Stock price change in the short term is highly unpredictable and often does not relate to underlying economic or company performance. Stock technical analysis indicators are commonly used to…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
Secondary cancers, which develop as a result of initial radiation or chemotherapy treatments, are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in cancer survivors. Early prediction of the develo…
Environmental Engineering
A) Stopping carbon emissions now is a start, but it’s not enough. We’ve already passed the point of no return. Even if every single coal fired power plants was shut down, every car converted…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Recently, drought conditions in South Asia have resulted in the starvation and suicides of over 500,000 individuals due to crop yield drastically decreasing. Plants are severely affected by…
Systems Software
Third Award
In the United States, a large percentage of accidents directly result from “blind” left turns made by drivers who have their view of oncoming traffic blocked by larger vehicles. An engineeri…
Animal Sciences
Third Award
Curcumin is known for its multifarious effects like its antioxidative, cancer chemo-preventative, and anti-inflammatory properties. This research aimed to explore curcumin’s effect on planar…