Microbiology
Antibiotic resistance is a major global health threat projected by the World Health Organization to cause 10 million deaths annually by 2050. Autolysins like AtlA, essential for bacterial ce…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Every year, approximately 90,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with lymphoma, a cancer impacting white blood cells called lymphocytes. The CD30 receptor, overexpressed in Hodgkin…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Cannabinoid receptor subtype 2 (CB2), a G protein-coupled receptor within the endocannabinoid system (ECS), has shown promise as a therapeutic target in cancer and inflammatory diseases due…
Systems Software
Sabre fencing is a sport of split-second decisions, where in 60% of points, both fencers land touches within milliseconds of each other. In such cases, determining who earns the point is ent…
Physics and Astronomy
Neutron stars are remnants of the cores of massive stars after they undergo supernovae at the end of their lives. They were theoretically predicted in the 1930s and first observed in the 196…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This experiment was performed to significantly cut down the amount of polluted freshwater bodies in the world. This experiment has findings that make this much faster, easier, and cheaper th…
Biomedical Engineering
Pneumonia, an infection of the lungs where air sacs fill with fluid, causes 2.5 million annual deaths and is the leading cause of death in children under five. From scratch, we developed a c…
Translational Medical Science
This project presents the development of three AI-powered diagnostic tools capable of identifying malaria, leukemia, and anemia from peripheral blood smear (PBS) images using convolutional n…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Coral reefs are the world's most vital marine ecosystems, producing 50% of the world's oxygen and sustaining the livelihoods of 1 billion people globally. However, coral bleaching, a phenome…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this investigation is to determine if there is a relationship between different coral species and their ability to adapt to heat. This experiment explores how corals might inc…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The mental state of students is an area of which we need to draw more attention towards, including Mississippi. Studies show that anxiety and depression are two major mental illnesses studen…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Louisiana pipelines are made of many different materials as they were all built during different times where certain metals were optimal. These aging pipes can be hazardous to the community,…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
This study explores the effectiveness of Convolutional Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Conv-Bi-LSTM) in detecting neonatal seizure activity using Electroencephalogram (EEG) data, based…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In the first 6 hours following a building collapse, the chance of finding a survivor is approximately 60%, but drops to less than 10% by the 48th hour. This research developed a soft biomime…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Arctic sea ice and permafrost are critical to global climate balance and bio-geophysical diversity. Recent CryoSat-2 satellite data indicates that ice thickness is depleting at the rate of 1…
Biomedical Engineering
This project addresses the accessibility gap in hypertension monitoring by developing a low-cost, cuffless blood pressure device. With 48.1% of U.S. adults affected by high blood pressure, m…
Biomedical Engineering
Millions of patients worldwide require the use of implanted medical devices (IMDs) to treat chronic illnesses. These devices use non-rechargeable batteries, requiring invasive and possibly d…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) affect over 300 million people globally. In previous research, we identified ASXL3 as a biomarker for NDDs, but our understanding of how the clinical seve…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems are crucial in diabetes care, but focus only on monitoring blood glucose levels (BGL), neglecting diet, exercise, and medication and lacking predi…
Translational Medical Science
Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC), responsible for over 90% of pancreatic cancer cases, remains one of the most lethal cancers due to stage IV diagnosis and five-year survival rate of…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Lithium is essential for rechargeable batteries in electric vehicles, energy storage, and electronics, driving the clean energy revolution. With global demand increasing and Earth's reserves…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
This project aimed to focus on identifying VEGF-B’s specific roles in cell survival and apoptosis, as well as its role in-vivo in cardiomyocyte regeneration within the zebrafish heart. The f…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Liver cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) as the most common type. HCC shows disparities across race, gender, and ethnic…
Physics and Astronomy
My project aimed to investigate the effect circuit complexity has on levels of decoherence in quantum computing algorithms. I also wanted to demonstrate that higher degrees of entanglement i…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Solar energy's vast abundance makes it a leading candidate for Earth's growing sustainable energy demands. However, traditional photovoltaic solar cells face many limitations such as high sp…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The emergence of TEM-171 Beta-lactamase represents a significant threat to modern antimicrobial therapy due to its ability to hydrolyze an extended spectrum of Beta-lactam antibiotics. While…
Physics and Astronomy
Polymer-grafted gold nanorods are a subcategory of particle grafted nanoparticles which consist of a gold nanorod (AuNR) core and polymer canopy. They are particularly useful in sensing tech…
Mathematics
The search for a perfect tuning system for music has been a long-standing debate among musical theorists. There is a close relationship between the theory of musical scales and the frequency…
Biomedical Engineering
This project aims to develop a wearable ankle exoskeleton that allows real-time, adaptive rehabilitation after injury. Most existing devices are either fixed or lack support for complex ankl…
Materials Science
Current autoimmune disease therapies involve drugs that have a wide range of side effects due to the generalized immunosuppression that suppresses healthy cells in the process. This study di…