Behavioral and Social Sciences
Throughout school, I have only ever encountered the topic of diabetes once. That was in sixth grade; even then, there was only a paragraph about the disease. As I have matured and accepted m…
Embedded Systems
On average, every eight minutes a car hits a pedestrian, and every 70 minutes one is killed. The elderly, the hard of hearing, and those listening to music while exercising are at an increas…
Physics and Astronomy
The ADMX experiment utilizes a microwave haloscope to directly detect axions, a theoretical particle that is the proposed solution for the Strong CP problem and a strong candidate for dark m…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Understanding the transcriptomic association of athletic performance, including VO2max, is critical for elucidating the interplay between molecular biology and exercise outcomes. Predicting…
Environmental Engineering
Postpartum women often use cotton pads with endocrine-disrupting chemicals, risking secondary infertility and solid waste accumulation. Bast fibers require less water to cultivate, biodegrad…
Animal Sciences
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether bacteria found in livestock at stock shows are developing resistance to common antibiotics. This research aims to provide insights into a…
Animal Sciences
Maintaining healthy honey bee (Apis mellifera) populations is critical for biodiversity and agricultural sustainability. However, neonicotinoid pesticides such as imidacloprid pose significa…
Materials Science
The Biodegradable Algae plastic project was designed to find a solution for the world's aggressive plastic waste problem. After doing research on potential materials, it was found that Chond…
Biomedical Engineering
Biodegradable bone scaffolds have the potential to be an alternative treatment for bone grafts. Infusion with antimicrobial factors could provide a controllable release mechanism for targete…
Plant Sciences
Japanese Knotweed (Fallopia japonica) is a highly dominant alien weed species that is increasingly abundant across the Americas and Europe, possessing several potentially allelopathic plant…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Uveal melanoma, cancer of the melanin-producing cells in the eye, is the most common type of intraocular cancer in adults. Approximately half the patients develop metastatic disease, which h…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
In construction or any fields that involve blasting, workers often measure rock hardness and assess slope stability on steep, high-altitude surfaces, requiring high-risk suspended tasks. The…
Environmental Engineering
Noise pollution and ship-induced wakes not only harm wildlife and erode shores, but also cost the shipping industry billions of dollars in traffic disruptions. Aquatic insects and penguins t…
Biochemistry
Nitric oxide sensing proteins (NosPs) have been studied as important signaling molecules in various organisms. Particularly in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, NosP plays a role in heme binding and c…
Biomedical Engineering
Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading cause of mortality worldwide, with most conditions requiring vascular stents to restore blood flow. However, complications such as restenosis—the r…
Biomedical Engineering
The goal of this project was to design a navigational device for visually impaired people, utilizing ultrasonic sensors. We began by researching the components we planned on using, then we s…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Antimicrobial peptides are short-chain proteins known for their antibacterial, antimicrobial, and antiviral properties. Each peptide has varying properties, though they have largely been tes…
Embedded Systems
Braille literacy is essential for educational and professional success among visually impaired individuals. Traditional refreshable braille displays (RBDs), which dynamically raise and lower…
Technology Enhances the Arts
Tens of millions of individuals worldwide, including those with locked-in syndrome, advanced ALS, and coma, are unable to communicate due to motor paralysis. BrainSync introduces a novel mul…
Systems Software
Due to the inherently noisy and error-prone nature of modern quantum hardware, optimizing quantum circuit (QC) layouts is a fundamental challenge in quantum computing. Modern industrial opti…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
No-resource languages—those with minimal or no digital representation—pose unique challenges for machine translation (MT). Unlike low resource languages, which rely on limited but existent c…
Translational Medical Science
As seen in recent trends, lung diseases affect over 500 million people worldwide, killing over 10 million people a year. As a method for early detection, this project aimed to design and tes…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The lack of research in artificial intelligence systems for parsing and understanding text in less commonly spoken languages has led to a barrier to access to state-of-the-art natural langua…
Physics and Astronomy
Bubble curtains have a wide range of important applications, ranging from underwater gear protection to sound pollution reduction and oil spill control, and increasing numbers of offshore pr…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cardiovascular Diseases are conditions which block blood transportation to bodily organs. Using an online dataset and machine learning methods, it was tested how heart diseases can be predic…
Translational Medical Science
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a condition with high global prevalence. At least 75% of deaths from CAD occur in low- and middle-income countries due to the lack of predictive expertise be…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Despite millions of teenagers feeling overwhelmingly stressed, mental health resources are often inaccessible, expensive, and/or under-promoted. Using 235 responses from opt-in anonymous que…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Flooding in New Orleans and worldwide has caused loss of life and countless billions in property damage. In many cases, city drainage systems have not functioned properly due to debris clogg…
Translational Medical Science
This project exemplifies the integration of regular Cancer testing panels via a comparison of detection in various tactics. My primary question is how the medical industry can identify pancr…
Materials Science
With the exponentially increasing use of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and large-scale energy storage requirements, such as from solar or wind turbine generated power, the urge…