Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The problem confronted is the emission of hydrocarbons from combustion engines. The Engineering goal was to convert a weed wacker engine (WWE) to utilize compressed air as fuel. A WWE was ch…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic inflammatory lung disease that obstructs airflow and causes difficulty breathing. It is responsible for approximately 3.2 million de…
Biomedical Engineering
Scleral Buckling Surgery is a common eye procedure ophthalmic surgery residents need to master. However, they lack low-cost, quality training models. Surgical simulators are one way to pract…
Plant Sciences
Over time, human populations in coastal areas have affected the environment more and more. Nutrients in marshes and salt pans are increasing due to human impact. Nutrient pollution is one of…
Mathematics
Cryptocurrency is a digital financial asset that has gained exorbitant traction in recent years. Since the global financial crisis period, traditional safe-haven investments have lost their…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Over the course of the last forty years concern of the effects caused by indoor air quality on health has been increasing due to the ever-surging indoor based work environments and homes. Wi…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Current commercial braille displays often cost upwards of a thousand dollars, creating a socioeconomic barrier that is untraversable to many. Research has shown that having braille education…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The engineering goal of this project was to design a cost-effective and functional artificial limb with the integration of 3D printing, haptic feedback, and force-sensitive resistors (FSRs).…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Metabolism forms the foundation of understanding how cellular processes work; however, not all reactions within a metabolic network are fully understood. Some specific metabolic pathways in…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus disease, is a respiratory illness caused by a virus called SARS-CoV-2. Currently, there are two standard COVID-19 diagnostic tests: RT-PCR, with a sen…
Microbiology
As more and more bacteria develop antibiotic resistance, bioenhancers (substances that enhance antibiotic performance) are emerging as potential solutions. We hypothesized that the bioenhanc…
Embedded Systems
Over the past few decades, data has grown exponentially. This has become clear in recent years, with the emergence of complex simulations, large databanks, and dense artificial intelligence…
Mathematics
The purpose of this study is to develop a tool to organize graphs utilizing Hooke’s law, and to assess its abilities in terms of the organization of graphs. Graphs that satisfy certain condi…
Biochemistry
Currently, both synthetic and animal-derived grafts currently used as scaffolds for perfusable human tissue have limitations due to low availability, poor biocompatibility, and cost. Plant l…
Materials Science
Two-dimensional semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) are at the center of recent research regarding optoelectronic devices, such as single photon emitters, due to their uni…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Pulmonary fibrosis occurs when lung tissue becomes damaged or scarred and can be progressive in nature, impacting an individual’s ability to breathe. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Perovskite solar cells have been regarded as one of the most promising alternatives to conventional polycrystalline silicon solar cells due to their excellent photovoltaic properties, flexib…
Translational Medical Science
Among various subtypes of breast cancer, triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is well-known as aggressive cancer with frequent anticancer drug-resistance and easy metastasis. Nevertheless, t…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of death for American men. Sadly, Native Hawaiian men have the highest mortality rate from the disease. Mamaki, an endemic Hawaiian plant and a vi…
Translational Medical Science
With respect to evaluating biopsies for cancer diagnosis, a pressing yet often sidelined issue is that of anatomical pathology errors. Due to the image-based nature of biopsy examinations an…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Second Award
Current drone swarm technology is oftentimes not fully autonomous nor connected by a reliable network, and therefore cannot efficiently map large natural disaster environments to identify se…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Along the pathogenesis of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (MTB), hypoxia-induced dormancy is a process involving the oxygen-depleted environment encountered inside the lung granuloma, where bacil…
Biochemistry
Fourth Award
Radiation-induced lung disease is a potential challenge for thoracic cancer survivors, who received radiotherapy. Hence, research to identify drugs that have selective effects on normal and…
Environmental Engineering
Through increasing usage of toxic substances in anthropogenic activities, contamination in the natural environment has become a major problem. To combat this increasing threat, native Hawaii…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of human death, accounting for 17.8 million deaths in the past year. CVD causes dysfunction in blood proteins and cells. These dysfunctions…
Translational Medical Science
Anti-cancer peptides (ACPs), a class of small peptide molecules, have gained increasing attention in cancer research due to their ability to target and kill cancer cells selectively, sparing…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is a major clinical complication with an incidence of 50% among critical care patients and an observed in-hospital mortality of 62%. The early identification of pat…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The early division of nuclei in a Drosophila embryo is composed of eight nuclear divisions, or cycles, producing a total of 256 nuclei by the eighth cycle. The nuclei start in the center of…
Embedded Systems
When natural disasters hit, they routinely destroy cellular and WiFi networks, eliminating these indispensable tools for emergency responders. Ideally, first responders could arrive, connect…
Translational Medical Science
Artificial intelligence is becoming a more widely utilized technology in the healthcare industry to improve predictability and consistency (Science Daily). However, this powerful technology…