Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Since the beginning of modern plastic's invention nearly a century ago, the human species as a whole has continually increased its rate of plastic consumption and waste. Until recently, this…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
Massive underrepresentation of non-White skin in dermatology research contributes to significant disparities in skin cancer outcomes. Since artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are largel…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This study addresses the ethical implications of using artificially intelligent neural networks for medical diagnosis, with a focus on skin diseases. While such networks have demonstrated hi…
Chemistry
Noni (Morinda citrifolia) is a traditional Southeast Asian medicinal plant with research indicating antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anticancer activity, as well as benefits for cardiovas…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
Ransomware attacks render data unusable and demand a ransom in order to restore data integrity. These attacks cost billions of dollars every year at the individual, industrial, and national…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Fourth Award
Hydrogen has shown promise as the future of zero-carbon energy storage. However, partly due to the cost and synthesis complexity of electrocatalysts for Alkaline Water Splitting (AWS), 95% o…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
ChatGPT is a widely utilized resource with billions of users projected worldwide, simultaneously handling numerous tasks. However, its cost and efficiency have become a matter of concern due…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is a tingling sensation in the scalp, neck, and back caused by sensory stimuli triggering the parasympathetic response. With a wide genre of p…
Microbiology
The weakening pipeline of the discovery of novel antibiotics and the excessive use of antibiotics have contributed to the recent emergence of antimicrobial resistance. In response to this em…
Mathematics
This project focuses on Packet Radio Networks (PRN), represented as a graph G = (V,E) with V and E as its vertex and edge sets respectively. The vertices represent the set of stations, and t…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of insulating materials with a smaller carbon footprint. I hypothesized that sheep wool would be the most effective insulati…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Alzheimer’s is difficult to treat, particularly due to inability of prospective treatments to cross the impermeable blood-brain-barrier(BBB). Neurodegeneration is exacerbated by Aß-aggregate…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Second Award
Our bodies continually encounter genetic and developmental stresses, activating stress-responsive signaling pathways to promote proteostasis. However, when these stresses persist and signali…
Biochemistry
Fourth Award
Current radiobiology research focusses to identify radioprotective agents that can protect normal tissues from radiation-induced injury due to accidental exposures. Recently, cardamonin has…
Technology Enhances the Arts
Third Award
For the Deaf community, math is not a universal language. In over 300 existing sign languages worldwide, most math terms do not have corresponding signs, forcing deaf students to fingerspell…
Materials Science
Materials have rapidly become scarce and costly to produce and acquire, which has been due to several factors, including disease, deforestation, worker strikes, and more. The purpose of this…
Translational Medical Science
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths. Often covered in biofilms, right sided tumors are deadly and often identified in advanced stages, highlighting t…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
This Environmental Science project brings to light the real issues the Navajo People face from health concerns to pollution on their sacred lands in a unique and resourceful way. It investig…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Adolescence is a period of transition from childhood to adulthood characterized by significant socio-emotional, physical, and physiological changes, along with physiological reactivity to em…
Biochemistry
This study explores how human body temperature fluctuations affect neurotransmitter precursor amino acids involved in dopamine and serotonin production, aiming to understand their behavior a…
Animal Sciences
Despite the ubiquity of food preservatives in modern-day cuisine, the holistic range of their effects has yet to be adequately explored. The purpose of this experiment is to examine whether…
Plant Sciences
Over the course of the years, recent studies indicate a significant decline in Hawaii's native ohia lehua tree population. This is due to a fungal plant pathogen called ceratocystis lukuohia…
Materials Science
Modern diesel engines exhibit a maximum fuel efficiency of only 50%, primarily due to inefficient combustion processes resulting in unburned hydrocarbons and. This experiment aimed to minimi…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Glyphosate, the active ingredient used in many herbicides, has seen extensive use, surpassing over 1.6 billion kilograms since 1974. With this widespread use, humans have begun to experience…
Biomedical Engineering
Second Award
Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury, which affects nearly 200,000 patients annually in the United States, can be accompanied by joint bleeding but the effects of whole blood components a…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Levetiracetam, otherwise known as Keppra, is an anti-seizure medication. It is used to prevent seizures in people who have epilepsy. Due to the fact that Keppra is a preventative medication,…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Purpose: Age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a devastating neurodegenerative eye disease leading to total blindness, affects 200 million people worldwide. The project focused on identify…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Each year, twenty million people are diagnosed with cancer. Its prevalence is increasing at a faster pace than any other disease. Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 2 (CDK2) plays a key role in regulat…
Translational Medical Science
This experiment aimed to continue the search for a cure for celiac disease using mesenchymal stem cells by inhibiting the PD-L1/PD-1 pathway to determine whether it was a contributing factor…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
A sharp rise in food allergies during the last century has left millions with this chronic, often life-threatening condition. In fact, nearly all known autoimmune diseases are being diagnose…