Biomedical and Health Sciences
Age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, is a progressive degeneration of the retina that causes significant central visual impairment, impacting nearly 20 million elderly adults in the Uni…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Music induces emotions, and emotions affect people's behavior and mental health. This project studies how different musical key signatures influence listeners' emotions. A survey was designe…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The teleoperation of robotic hands is limited by the high costs of depth cameras and sensor gloves, commonly used to estimate hand relative joint positions (XYZ). We present a novel, cost-ef…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In today's day and age, our world has been plunged into an energy crisis. Current clean energy solutions rely on lithium-ion batteries made with cobalt and lithium. These minerals are proble…
Microbiology
Antibiotic resistance is a rising threat to public health. Until recent years, efforts to combat antibiotic resistance have focused on creating newer and stronger antibiotics, but pathogens…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Drug-drug synergy is crucial for developing effective combination therapies, and gene function relationships play an important role in identifying these synergies. However, due to the comple…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
In vitro drug sensitivity testing is critical for identifying effective cancer treatments. However, due to the vast number of potential drug monotherapies and combination therapies, in vitro…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this study is to isolate the specific population of an all-girls, private, Catholic high school to determine the effects of school climate on mental wellbeing of teachers and…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders (NHPI) suffer disproportionately from cardiometabolic health conditions, with diabetes mortality rates 3.32 times higher than the general population, ye…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Globally, countless organisms suffer from infections, diseases, and environmental threats. Custom proteins are at the heart of solutions to these challenges. Custom proteins are life-saving…
Technology Enhances the Arts
Globally, an estimated 40-45 million people are blind, and an estimated 160 million are affected by deafness and blindness. Those who can hear can rely on speech to learn and communicate, wh…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Central nervous system (CNS) diseases such as Alzheimer's, epilepsy, and stroke affect over 1 billion people globally, and dysregulated astrocytic calcium signaling can drive these pathologi…
Microbiology
This study investigates how per- and polyfluoroalkyl compounds—PFOA, PFOS, and PFBA—affect the growth and genetic stability of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a eukaryotic organism with a genome t…
Animal Sciences
This project tracked intestinal parasites in stray feline populations on Oahu to assess severity of the presence of parasites in the environment with posed zoonotic risks. Using fecal flotat…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Urban transportation faces multifaceted challenges including traffic congestion, road safety, and the need for real-time accident prevention. This project presents a comprehensive approach e…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Introduction: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) remains one of the deadliest malignancies due to late diagnosis, extensive metastasis, and limited treatment options. A multifunctional g…
Chemistry
The Ultraviolet Index (UVI) is a measure of the likelihood of getting sunburned while outside. Its only limitation is that the UVI is entirely predicted by satellites and is not measured at…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Hydrogel polymer electrolytes (HPEs) have gained considerable popularity in energy storage. Hydrogels are hydrophilic polymeric networks that can be extended multi-dimensionally via cross-li…
Physics and Astronomy
NASA aims to send humans to Mars by the 2030s-2040s. A leading scientific goal will be the search for signs of indigenous life, past or present, which if found, would have major implications…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project assessed whether pine tree ring growth could be used to track rates of saltwater intrusion by analyzing pine tree growth ring response to surface water specific conductance leve…
Biomedical Engineering
Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease estimated to affect around 1 million people in the US. It is also the fastest growing neurodegenerative disease with growth rates comp…
Plant Sciences
A local problem in Florida is the immense expense of fertilizing golf courses, reaching over $100,000 annually. A global problem involves the disposal of biosolids from wastewater treatment…
Environmental Engineering
Microplastics persist in the environment, move across the food chain, and are easily ingested because of their tiny sizes, harming aquatic organisms and posing health risks to humans. As par…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Congenital heart defects (CHDs) refer to structural defects in the heart that are present at birth. Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) is the most complex CHD and occurs when the left si…
Microbiology
Before the discovery of antibiotics, bacterial infections constituted a leading cause of human mortality. Antibiotics used during World War One and the subsequent introduction of penicillin…
Plant Sciences
As of 2024, micronutrient deficiency cases are increasing throughout the world. To counter this, my experiment aimed to improve micronutrient availability in barley low-phytic acid (lpa) mut…
Translational Medical Science
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune arthropathy that affects over 18 million people globally, causing immense joint pain and swelling. Current treatments (e.g., methotrexate, adalimum…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a neurodegenerative disorder causing cognitive deterioration, remains a leading cause of death. Previous research has not fully clarified the impact of amyloid-beta…
Environmental Engineering
As the potential of microalgae as a resource becomes increasingly recognized, this study explored foam flotation as a means to extract it from an aqueous environment. A small-scale column fl…
Technology Enhances the Arts
Sign language serves as the main means of communication for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing community, yet barriers persist for non-signers who either lack the practical exposure to master it o…