Biomedical Engineering
Goal: To build a practical device capable of improving my vision by directing a controlled level of light into the eye (i.e. photoactivation.) Problem/Background: I have multiple eye conditi…
Engineering Mechanics
Second Award
For most organ failure patients, organ donations do not exist. But in 5-10 years, patients will be able to grow their own organs by placing stem cells into extracellular matrices (ECMs) take…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) affects three million individuals in the United States alone, resulting in approximately $15 billion in healthcare costs annually. T1D results from the autoimm…
Biomedical Engineering
The regeneration of bone defects caused by trauma, fracture, and disease is a significant clinical challenge for both military and civilian patients in the United States and around the world…
Environmental Engineering
Thousands of wells are drilled in shale reservoirs annually. The most common type of fluid used to drill horizontal wells in shale reservoirs is oil-based mud, using diesel and other compone…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
Bacterial meningitis is the inflammation of the meninges and subarachnoid cerebrospinal fluid caused by bacterial infection. E. coli K1 is a major cause of neonatal meningitis, which has bee…
Biomedical Engineering
Tissue-material integration is a key challenge of engineering medical implants and implantable biosensors. Implants often undergo an intense foreign body reaction orchestrated by human macro…
Engineering Mechanics
Accessible Pedestrian Signals (APS) are vital for visually impaired individuals crossing the street. However, there are many different types of APS. Not having a universal design makes it ha…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Twelve percent of women develop invasive breast cancer (National Cancer Institute, 2012). Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women in the United States, killing ov…
Physics and Astronomy
Quantum computing is a theory that is slowly becoming a reality. In specific, entanglement distillation is an essential part to constructing quantum computers, the next frontier for the info…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the most common form of autoimmune arthritis, is a progressive inflammatory disease with unclear causes. Many people with arthritis feel worsening symptoms when we…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Acesulfame, sucralose, and saccharin are artificial sweeteners and used as sugar substitutes in foods and beverages. From last year’s research, it was found that these sweeteners could not b…
Biochemistry
Fourth Award
Biofilm-based infections pose two major problems: extreme resistance to antibiotics and many other conventional antimicrobial agents and extreme capacity for evading the host defenses. Dispe…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Third Award
The practice of smoking hookah, a traditional smoking apparatus that uses charcoal to indirectly heat shisha tobacco, as a possible alternative to cigarettes is an emerging trend of global s…
Embedded Systems
Fourth Award
Many allergies can induce anaphylactic shock leaving one disoriented. The current response to anaphylactic shock is the administration of epinephrine via an auto injector followed by a trip…
Animal Sciences
The proportion of the world’s population aged 65 years and older is expected to double from 8% to 16% within the next 35 years. This is expected to result in a concomitant increase in aging-…
Microbiology
Enteropathogenic bacteria are a common source of newborn deaths, and Shiga toxin-producing Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli is one of the most common bacterial pathogens found in infants. Ba…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Second Award
Anthropogenic emissions of methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) especially from large cities have resulted in the build-up of greenhouse gas concentrations responsible for climate change.…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The field of clinical neuroimaging has extensive literature devoted to determining Autistic brain functional connectivity differences with resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Lacrosse is one of the fastest growing sports in North America, and the physical nature of the sport puts players at risk of sustaining head injuries, including concussions. Concussions are…
Environmental Engineering
This research began over four years ago. During the summer of 2012 numerous bare patches were noticed in the hills in the Greybull area that were mined before reclamation was mandatory. The…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
It can be found that lichen are commonly used as bioindicators by scientists in order detect air pollution. This project was targeted at evaluating if lichens can be used as bioindicators ju…
Animal Sciences
With an increased link between neurological diseases and microbiota stability, this research elucidates the ability of probiotics to influence the link between the digestive system and neuro…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Man-made polymers create a strain in waste management strategies as decomposition is not practical and combustion of these material creates greenhouse gases. The researched method will decre…
Physics and Astronomy
The limitations of four prominent exoplanet detection methods-direct imaging, radial velocity, transit, and gravitational microlensing-were analyzed. It was hypothesized that ranges of descr…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Gender Bias and stereotyping in human interaction is not uncommon. Sometimes, it could be intentional and sometimes sub-conscious. For example, consider the following description of a man an…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The overall objective of this research is to define the viral proteins composed in the exosomes and demonstrate that flavivirus proteins are present in the exosomes. The ongoing epidemic cau…
Translational Medical Science
Metastatic cancers are associated with a poor prognosis, as current treatments often prove ineffective at targeting every cancer cell and are rather damaging to normal cells. The research re…
Materials Science
Two-dimensional (2D) graphene with exotic properties was discovered in 2004 by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, which earned them a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010. However, it is point s…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Neurodegenerative diseases are the deadliest in the world. Neurodegeneration is the progressive loss of the function of neurons. This study analyzes the relationship between the PITX3 gene a…