Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this investigation was to measure the effect of L-arginine on cisplatin’s ability to disaggregate human superoxide dismutase 1 enzymes (hSOD1), which are found to aggregate in…
Systems Software
Aethina tumida, otherwise known as the small hive beetle, is a destructive pest of the honeybee. With the global decline of honeybee populations, and considering the honeybee's importance to…
How do cattle manure microbes affect the growth of Clavibacter Michiganensis subspecies nebraskensis (Cmn)? Cmn is a bacteria and the cause of Goss’s Bacterial Wilt in zea mays. In this stud…
The microwave oven is one of the fastest selling home appliances in world, but there are major concerns about the effects of microwave heating on various food nutrients/substances. For my pr…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
With cell phone use becoming ubiquitous in the academic lives of teenagers, high school students use their cell phones for social connection in a multitasking way while studying and doing ho…
Since there are more binary star systems than single star systems that have been observed in the visible universe, the purpose of this experiment is to explore the implications of habitabili…
For centuries, spices have become popular in different cultures due to their medicinal values and antimicrobial properties. Spices have been shown to have a high phenolic content, which may…
To determine the effect of certain plant extracts on the rate of seed germination, several types of seeds were planted in water-based extracts of walnut shells, orange peels, and cornhusks.…
Fourth Award
This project studies the effect of pollution on the number of tardigrades (water bears) in lichen and moss samples. I asked whether the correlation between pollution and elevation as measure…
Biomedical Engineering
A primary characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease is the oligomerization of amyloid-beta (aß) 1-40 random coil structures leading to the eventual formation of neurofibrillary tangles and aß pl…
A previous year's work studied the effect of micronized rubber powder (MRP) on the abrasion resistance of a rubber compound. To further evaluate the impact of MRP usage on a nitrile rubber,…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
It is necessary to better understand human haptics because of the explosion of multi-sensory interfaces and growing need for devices that utilize weight perception to decide force required f…
Translational Medical Science
Neuroblastoma is the most common extra-cranial solid cancer in children and there is about one case in 7000 live births, resulting in approximately 700 cases in the US alone. About 25% of ne…
With depleting fossil fuels, a new source of energy has to be found. Algae, nature’s oldest, fastest growing plant, is a viable solution. The purpose of this project was to determine which h…
The purpose of this project is to determine the role that sea surface temperatures play in the formation and intensity of tropical storms and hurricanes found in the Atlantic Basin. The Atla…
Third Award
An infamous atmospheric anomaly, Sudden Stratosphere Warming (SSW) alters the circulations of different layers of the atmosphere, affecting the weather of the ionosphere/thermosphere as well…
Biomedical Engineering
Yearly, approximately 65,000 are diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, and of these new cases 20,000 of them result in death. Naringin, a citrus flavonoid, has shown promise in causing apopt…
Biochemistry
Millions of people each year die of mosquito-borne diseases. My past experimentation with an environmentally safe fungus, known as Beauveria bassiana has shown its effectiveness at controlli…
Germanium wafers are primarily used in multijunction photovoltaic cells for aerospace applications. Due to the expense of Germanium, wafers are very thin, and thus very susceptible to fractu…
This project is to discover the effect of trace elements on a calcium phosphate bioceramic and to determine the trace elements that best reacts with calcium phosphate to produce the stronges…
Biomedical Engineering
Unlike most normal cells, aggressive carcinomas overexpress voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSC). Studies demonstrate a positive correlation between cancer cell aggressiveness and VGSC overe…
Continuous reliance on fossil fuels as a primary power source across the world causes carbon dioxide emissions to increase. Carbon dioxide inhibits the production of ozone, which results in…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Mytlius edulis, more commonly known as the blue mussel, is located in a wide area of locations that have colder water temperatures, such as the New England area. To determine if climate chan…
Systems Software
Cheating in academia has become a prevalent issue among students across America. This experiment aims to pinpoint the dynamics of cheating within the lives of different age groups: high scho…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of an over-the-counter analgesic, Acetaminophen (commonly known as Tylenol™) on the freshwater invertebrate crustacean species, Daphn…
Rapid-prototyping technologies provide individually efficient alternative methods to the design and manufacturing process. With the rise of the rapid-prototyping technology of 3D printing co…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Last year the researcher experimented to see if smudging (burning) the four sacred medicines (sage, sweetgrass, cedar, and tobacco) emitted carcinogens. Sage is the most commonly smudged of…
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) spreads infection throughout densely populated livestock operations and healthcare facilities, assessing $19.7B on US society annually. Cho…
Cancer is a medical phenomenon that takes the lives of more than 1,600 people per day, in the United States alone (American Cancer Society, 2014). More than 14 million new cancer cases are d…
Problem Statement Is there a way to eliminate contaminants from a body of water such as Benton Lake by utilizing the simple yet effective methods of my previous two years of experimentation?…