Microbiology
Fourth Award
On August 14, 2013, Nova Delphini was discovered by Koichi Itagaki. This nova erupted to a maximum brightness of magnitude 4.4 by August 16. The extraordinary brightness of this event allowe…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
As the 6th leading cause of death in the United States, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects over 5.4 million Americans. Recent studies have hypot…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Solar spectral losses account for 50+% of efficiency loss in conventional solar panels, due to inherent conflict between maximizing quantity of photons absorbed and energy obtained from each…
Plant Sciences
Second Award
After working in an Indian Hospital, I realized that surgery for eye diseases is costly, unavailable, and inefficient, while the alternative is a drug in the form of eye drops. Current ocula…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
HIV causes significant morbidity and mortality worldwide, especially in developing countries that cannot provide healthcare to its citizens. The most efficient and cost-effective preventativ…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Condensation plays an important role in thermal desalination, environmental control, and power generation processes with a combined global market of $300 billion per year. Hydrophobic surfac…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
With an increased desire to access medically important compounds, chemists are pursuing many alternative synthetic methodologies. The purpose of this research was to investigate the potentia…
Physics and Astronomy
Second Award
Much biological research depends upon species diagnoses of sample organisms. The advent of DNA barcoding has made this process fast, inexpensive, and highly accurate. In place of the morphol…
Energy: Physical
Third Award
Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP) has been a pressing problem in Alaska for some time, especially recently. Numerous people residing in villages and coastal communities throughout Alaska l…
Energy: Physical
A current problem in the metallurgy industry is the high expense and difficulty of melting and shaping steel into intricate shapes. The goal of this project is to develop a novel process for…
Materials Science
First Award
Heavy metals pose a huge threat to society by diffusing through water supplies. Many technologies have been developed for removing heavy metals from industrial wastewater and drinking water,…
Mathematics
Fourth Award
Cell screening has revolutionized the field of medicine, with hundreds of cancer drugs owing their discovery these techniques. However, current methods involve analyzing population of cells…
Plant Sciences
Second Award
In this current study, highly crystalline undoped, N- and P-doped tin dioxide (SnO2) nanocrystals were successfully synthesized and gas sensors fabricated achieving exceptional sensor perfor…
Microbiology
Second Award
Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) is an opportunistic gram-negative bacterium that causes serious infection in immunocompromised patients. PA becomes much more pathogenic when it develops a biofil…
Physics and Astronomy
A particle accelerator was constructed using a pair of lithium niobate pyroelectric crystals as a power source. The crystals were arranged in a push-pull configuration to double the potentia…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Over 285 million people in the world today are visually impaired (World Health Organization). With enhancements in sensor technology and computer aided vision, tools to make the lives of the…
Microbiology
Third Award
The purpose of the project was to detect solar g-modes which would consequently confirm existing theories of solar magnetic fields. Viable sunspots were selected based on set criteria, and d…
Materials Science
First Award
Symmetric functions appear in many areas of mathematics and physics, including enumerative combinatorics, the representation theory of symmetric groups, statistical mechanics, and the quantu…
Plant Sciences
Megacopta cribraria is a newly invasive stink bug species significantly reducing soybean crop yield across the southeastern United States. Chemical pesticides are a limited method of control…
Materials Science
The purpose of this project is to see what the Olympic Medal results would look like if they were based on Gender and to see if Gender Equality is being promoted throughout the Olympic Games…
Plant Sciences
Demyelinating diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS), are devastating disabling neurological disorders most commonly affecting millions of young adults worldwide. Microglia represent rati…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Given a bipartite graph, let us pick an acyclic orientation of its edges. Then, if we consider the partially ordered set (poset) induced by this orientation, the number of linear extensions…
Plant Sciences
Third Award
Our project analyzes the utility of amorphous silica produced from rice husk biowastes in producing higher quality, thermostable pigments. Heating the husks produces rice husk ash (RHA) cont…
Materials Science
In this project, we provide a new notion of a topological homeomorphism by defining such in terms of a dynamical system. That is, we want to construct a time-dependent quasi-attractor and a…
Materials Science
This work employed an information theoretic approach in order to understand how information is stored and manipulated in mammalian neocortical circuits. Through massive in silico simulations…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Chloramines have been used to disinfect potable water because they do not product carcinogenic DBP’s like traditional free chlorine. However, chloramines have been linked with lead leaching…
Plant Sciences
When equines fracture their phalanx, the most common ‘treatment’ is euthanasia because of the high cost and risk of surgery. Additionally, few non-invasive preventative measures and/or treat…
Engineering Mechanics
Fourth Award
The purpose of this project is to develop and evaluate combinations of technologies which will ultimately lead the design of a system tuned to collision avoidance. The goal is to observe and…
Materials Science
Pancreatic cancer is a deadly disease that is very difficult to diagnose early and to treat effectively. It has a 95% mortality rate, the highest of all cancers, and only a 3-6% 5-year survi…
Energy: Chemical
The search for forms of alternative energy has led to wind turbines, hydro-electric dams, bio-diesel, and nuclear power being tested but can only be used in specific areas, restricting their…