Plant Sciences
Citrus Greening, also known as Huanlongbing, is one of the most destructive diseases of citrus worldwide. In Florida, the losses due to Citrus Greening is about 10% of the total profit, resu…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
The E821 experiment conducted in the national light source synchrotron in 2001 measured the muon's anomalous magnetic moment to a precision of 0.74 ppm, producing a three sigma difference be…
Embedded Systems
The purpose of my project was to create a device that can detect objects and warn the person with the device about the object. The hypothesis of this project was yes, an arduino uno R3 could…
Embedded Systems
About 50% of Americans snore while they’re sleeping a symptom of Sleep Apnea. Some 18-20 million Americans are living with Sleep Apnea, though doctors estimate that 80-90% of them remain und…
Physics and Astronomy
?A Single Electron Transistor (SET) is a device which conducts electrical current through a specified pathway and into a particle of choice in order to study the quantum properties of that p…
Materials Science
Micro and nanoscale structures for drug delivery have gained prominence in pharmacology. Ophthalmic diseases require repeated treatment, usually in the form of eye drops, and the treatment t…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Every day millions of loads of laundry are done in in the United States alone. Many, if not most, include synthetic fibers. During washing, micro-plastic fibers are released from the fabric,…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Academic integrity is the moral code or ethical policy of academia. In the past, studies have shown that it was the struggling student who was more likely to cheat. According to academic int…
Materials Science
Regenerative endodontics aims to combat the critical issue of dental trauma by preserving and maintaining a functional dentin-pulp complex. However, current pulp revascularization methods in…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
There is a need for people who are struggling with anxiety-related disorders as well as general stress to be able to improve the quality of life and overall health. The purpose of the experi…
Environmental Engineering
In many developing countries, average citizens do not have access to clean drinking water. By building types of cheap, easily built filters, these citizens may have access to water that is l…
Translational Medical Science
Zika virus infection can cause fever, rash, conjunctivitis, and joint pain, which typically last up to 1 to 2 weeks, but can also lead to severe diseases such as Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS…
Physics and Astronomy
My hypothesis, the angle at the top of the golf swing able to produce the greatest amount of straight shots is the 90 degree angle. Being the angle most professional golfers, players like Ad…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Poor lifestyle choices can lead to excess free radicals that shorten telomeres, the end caps of chromosomes. Telomere shortening is linked to cellular senescence and premature aging. This ex…
Animal Sciences
This experiment focuses on the effect of insects on mass of decomposing organisms over time. By using ventilated, secure containers containing chicken thigh meat with four conditions (A- ant…
Physics and Astronomy
In order for an aircraft to be able to leave the ground, lift must exceed the force on the aircraft due to gravity. Lift is created by the flow of air over an airfoil. The shape of an airfoi…
Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
Vocal behavior of birds is linked to individual recognition, mate and parent-chick bonding, and enhancing social bonds. However, geographically-specific dialects have been observed in bird a…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
Acetabular labral tears comprise 22% of reported groin pain. Repairs involve suturing torn tissue to the bone via anchors, or removing inflamed tissue. Both prevent the body from healing nat…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Robots are used in various ways to assist the elderly and handicapped. Since the elderly and disabled often have issues with mobility and manual dexterity, they are more likely to select the…
Environmental Engineering
Second Award
Growing concerns about eutrophication induced by elevated phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) levels in water and wastewater demand innovative water quality treatment technologies. My previous r…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Metastasis causes 100% of deaths from breast cancer, the most common cancer in women worldwide. Fusion genes, a combination of two genes due to genetic structural variation, are potential dr…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
The purpose of this project was to characterize human galectin-4 and its anti-microbial properties against self-like antigen bearing gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria while identifyin…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In my project, gas price fluctuations were compared with average consumer purchase prices at two gas stations/convenience stores to identify if there was a significant correlation between th…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are a recent and relatively unexplored form of basic artificial intelligence. Many applications still need development. This project is an attempt to determine the c…
Plant Sciences
Glyphosate is a systemic herbicide that is absorbed through foliage and is translocated via the phloem throughout the plant following absorption through the leaf tissues. Most commonly, Glyp…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
The increasing prevalence of Escherichia coli (E. coli) in our freshwater sources is a growing concern for the global community. The aim of this project is determining a faster, more cost ef…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Oil spills are a major problem that faces us today. They have a very large, negative impact on plants, animals, and their environment. Cleaning up oil spills in oceans and seas has burdened…
Energy: Physical
My experiment was designed to determine if increasing or decreasing the spacing of the rotor disks in a Tesla Turbine had any correlation to the amount of energy, in volts, generated by the…
Materials Science
Abstract The process of doping can be described as introducing impurities into a pure material to alter its properties. In this study, we introduced iodine into a solution of graphene in var…
Materials Science
Graphene is a multipurpose nano particle that is difficult and expensive to produce. This project focuses on a safer, more efficient and cost effective method of producing graphene using nat…