Materials Science
Exponentially increasing necessity for stronger and long-lasting turbine blades to power our industrial world calls for major development in the solidification protocol of metallic alloys. A…
Materials Science
The goal of this project was to refine and create sensors that are more sensitive and more repeatable than the year before. This was done by combining graphene Nanoflake powder and silicon.…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Electroencephalography (EEG) headsets, being highly portable, present a convenient, noninvasive method of recording the brain’s electrical activity. This project seeks to develop a method fo…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
The Zika virus (ZIKV) is an infectious disease from the virus family Flavivirdea which is spread from the Aedes mosquitoes. Zika was originally isolated in the Ziika Forest of Uganda where i…
Translational Medical Science
Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is relatively new non-invasive imaging technique that can be used for a variety of medical diagnosis. OCT is cost-effective and requires fewer resources th…
Translational Medical Science
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a form of cancer treatment that involves administering a photosensitizing drug and irradiating it with an external light source. Upon exposure, the photosensiti…
Animal Sciences
Second Award
Colony collapse is at an all time high devastating ecosystems and this project discovered a means to help the survival of honey bees through the supplementation of cysteine, which significan…
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of my experiment was to determine if seeding Pseudomonas putida (applying a bacterial aerosol treatment to the surface of the sheen) will reduce the area of oil sheen on hydrocar…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Second Award
People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have difficulty in recognizing and in comprehending emotions from other's facial expressions. This impacts their development of empathy and affects…
Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
Tobacco abuse alone currently accounts for 1 in 5 deaths annually in the US. Despite this, present methods of rehabilitation have proven ineffective with over a 90% likelihood of relapse. To…
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of experimentation was to determine how the degradation of 1,4-dioxane by Pseudonocardia dioxanivorans (ATCC? 55486) was affected by the presence of cis-DCE as it was degraded by…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Recent research has determined that genes are regulated by a complex, changing network of DNA spatial interactions. However, current wet-lab technologies for characterizing the 3D genome are…
Systems Software
Cryptographic hash code algorithms are vital to the security of information and data -- hash codes are like unique fingerprints for one's data (can be files, passwords, etc.). The validity o…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is crucial indicator of inflammatory diseases due to its extensive role in the inflammation process. However, despite its importance as a diagnostic indicator, there…
Systems Software
Obtaining accurate, real-time position information is essential to realizing autonomous vehicle technology in everyday life. GPS currently does not meet the accuracy needs of autonomous vehi…
Physics and Astronomy
Today, nuclear weapons and reactor plants are becoming more common. However, current methods of radiation shielding are not viable due to high cost and ineffective means of weakening photon…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
There is a limitation in the ability to simulate a high-resolution image of diffracted light. Diffraction occurs when light passes through an aperture. An aperture is a common component of a…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
While recent advances in gene therapy have reinforced the appeal for using Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) for targeted gene delivery, the small genome delivery size limits the capabilities of…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) are harmful biomolecules found on the surface of gram-negative bacteria and are responsible for over 50% of cases of sepsis, the leading cause of death in US hospit…
Energy: Chemical
Vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) are industrial-scale batteries that are being considered for the storage of solar, wind, and other forms of renewable energy in power plants. The ion ex…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
Spray cliffs (areas in the basin of a waterfall) are populated by plants that thrive in dark, moist environments. Such environments are typically conducive to plant diseases and thus select…
Microbiology
Microcins are antimicrobial proteins secreted by bacteria to provide a competitive edge in nutritionally stressful situations. These peptides are uniquely active against strains of susceptib…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Purpose: Ebola virus (EBOV) can cause severe and fatal hemorrhagic fever in humans. Being capable of causing large-scale epidemics, EBOV also emerges as a global security threat. Therefore,…
Microbiology
This study explored the antimicrobial properties found in honey and to compare honeys from two different regions in North America. The research was performed in hopes to find the honey with…
Embedded Systems
Fourth Award
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death in the world. The need exists to develop an innovative device to proactively detect the disease without the a…
Plant Sciences
Palo Verde trees (Parkinsonia microphylla) are one of the most unique trees native to Arizona in which photosynthesis occurs both through its small, transpiration-reduction adapted leaves an…
Mathematics
The purpose of this project is to develop a cipher (encryption algorithm) and cryptosystem that is both practical and provably secure. First, I investigate the relationship between continued…
Translational Medical Science
Hypodiploid B-ALL is a high-risk form of acute leukemia with a dismal prognosis and an 8-year survival rate of only 37%. Because standard chemotherapy is largely ineffective, there is an urg…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
At present, there are no well-validated biomarkers for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Currently, the diagnosis of such disorders is done by experts who employ standard ques…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Soil depletion and loss of water due to evaporation, is greatly affecting agriculture efficiency across the globe. This project aims to solve this global crisis by doing a comparative study…