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Welcome to the RISE Mag! Please explore the recent 2019-2020 Science and Engineering Student Projects below. Click here to read more about the RISE Mag, its purpose, and its impact.

Honors Research in Engineering

Artificial Intelligence and Sensor System for the Minimization of Water Usage in Toilets

Rachael Azrialy

Neural Network Prediction of Single Cell Pathology from Mitochondrial Structure

Hannah Kim

App that Tracks and Alerts Users of “Text Neck”

Elle Weingarten

Low Cost Educational Robot Kit with Centralized Coding

Ariel Heimanson

Towel Rack which Utilizes UV lights and a Hot Air Blower to Dry and Disinfect Towels

Ariana Golpa

Victoria Pinkett

Automatic Pillow that Adapts to Sleeping Positions

CSVAR: Crowd Sourced Video Assistant Referee

Sophia Larbalestier

Self-Orienting, Pressure, and Range Calibrating Sprinkler to Water within the Boundaries of an Arbitrarily Shaped Lawn

Grace Carter

Middle School Lil’ SIS

The Chlorine Chemical Balance in My Pool

Jagger Price

Las Galletas del Sol

Julia Ong

Does Bottled Water Contain Less Chlorine than Tap Water?

Micaela Lopez, Shaya Mossanen, and Mia Vosicher

The Effects of Environmental Stress and the Food Chain Against Rollie Pollies

Ella Chang, Lilly Dembo, and Danika Jhawar

The Evaluation of Pretreatments for Maximal Lipid Recovery from an Algal Biomass

Alex Martin, Lacey Thompson, and Amelia Hines

Have We Been Filtering Our Water the Wrong Way?

Annika Firlik, Camila Blank, , and Elana Mayne

UV Needed Sun Protection

Anna Entin, Isabella Jeffery, and Rebecca Lazarus

Better Living Through Engineering

Better Living Through Engineering – The SaniToy

Evan Bowman, Nadia Charles, Maya Sears, and Noa Wallock

Honors Research in Science

Using Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) to Correct the Huntington’s Gene Mutation (HTT) in C. elegans With the Disease

Gracey Wyles

Effect of Exposure to Probiotic Streptococcus thermophilus on Wild-Type and Immunocompromised Caenorhabditis elegans’ Lifespan and Immunity to Gram-Positive Mycobacterium Smegmatis Infection

Gillian Varnum

Exploring the Neural Responses Elicited by Perfect, Interrupted, and Neapolitan Cadences using Electroencephalography

Kennede Tucker

The Effect of Eastern Herbal Medicines and Western Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors on Drosophila Melanogaster with Familial Dilated Cardiomyopathy

Sarah Shintani

Chick Chorioallantoic Membrane (CAM) Assay as an In Vivo Model to Study the Effect of Common Women’s Health Routines on Angiogenesis Development

Siena van der Steen Mizel

The Effect of Isolation and Socialization on the Dopamine D2 Receptors in the Dopaminergic Reward Pathways of Food Addiction in Drosophila melanogaster

Amireh Leila Mirdamadi

Safety of Los Angeles water: assessment of lead content in Los Angeles home’s water using fluorometer analysis

Abigale Lischak

Reduction of Ultraviolet Damage in C. Elegans with Xeroderma Pigmentosum via Genistein Treatment

Stella Kraus

The effects of Bromelain, a digestive enzyme extracted from a pineapple, on intestinal inflammation in Caenorhabditis elegans; a preliminary study on a treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Stella Grynberg

The Effect of Arthrospira Platensis Before and After Aluminum-Exposure in Combating Metal-Induced Oxidative Stress in Caenorhabditis Elegans

Lauren Evans-Katz

The effect of Ziziphus as a treatment to reduce oxidative stress and subsequent Gram-negative bacterial infection in a Drosophila melanogaster model of Parkinson’s Disease

Lexie Ben-Meir