IYRC Spring 2021 AWARD RECIPIENTS

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Best overall and 100,000 JPY scholarship recipient: Jason Chan
Classifying Allergic Rhinitis Subjects and Identifying Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Using a Support Vector Machine Approach​

Best STEM presentation: Shailesh Senthil Kumar
Fabrication of a Microfluidic Tumor-on-a-Chip Model for Personalized Cancer Therapy​

Best STEM paper: Alice Feng
Proximity Detection in Contact Tracing With Bluetooth Technology During Covid19 Pandemic​

STEM Honorable Mention: ​Arthur Liang
Development of an Aptamer-Gold Nanoparticle Assay for Field Use in Informing “DIY- HRT”​

Best Humanities & Social Sciences presentation: Juan Sandoval
Mitigation Through Pedagogy: Strategies for Effective Climate Change Educational Interventions​

Best Humanities & Social Sciences paper: Hannah Pescaru
A Cycle of Stress: a Study of Increased COVID-19 Exposure Through Body-focused Repetitive Behaviors
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Humanities & Social Sciences Honorable Mention: Ana Espinosa
Health Inequity in the United States: A Systematic Review of The Limitations of the Latino Community in Accessing Health Services

Missed The IYRC 2020?

Watch the keynote speeches and panel discussion at the links below. Many student presentation can be found here.

IYRC 2019 AWARD RECIPIENTS

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Best STEM Presentation: Yuki Agarwala
The Relationship Between the Consequences of Climate Change and Methanogenic Archaea
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Best Humanities and Social Sciences Presentation: Justine Kim
Social Media and its Effects on the Foreign Language Curriculum
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Best STEM Paper: Kodai Kobayashi 
The Effect of Temperature on the Cross-linked Immobilized Lactase Activity
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Best Humanities and Social Sciences Paper: Emmalyn Kartchner
​The Short-Term Effects of Sugar on Self-Worth
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Honorable Mention (STEM): David Bass
​Comparative Analysis of IMUs and Motion Detecting Technology for Measuring Patients' Lumbar and Cervical Spines' Range of Motion

From left to right: ​​Kei Yamashita, David Bass, Yuki Agarwala, Kodai Kobayashi, Emmalyn Kartchner, Justine Kum, Winston Jim Lam

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2019 Tokyo Conference

IYRC 2018 AWARD RECIPIENTS

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Best STEM Presentation: Momoka Kobayashi
Effects of Molar Ratio and Hardness of Glyptal, the Value-Added Product of the Production of Biofuels
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Best Humanities  and Social Sciences Presentation: Kai Kurosu
The Acquisition of Formal and Informal Political Power in the United States and Japan
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Best STEM Paper: Sayaka Nagano
Protective Effect of Genistein as Antioxidant, Included in Natto, on Yeast Cell Viability
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Best Humanities and Social Sciences Paper: Stefan Mead
An Exploration of the Effects of Alternate Realities on One’s Identity
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Honorable Mention (STEM): Reika Shimomura
​Investigation on the Time Taken per Cycle and 100m Breaststroke Record
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Honorable Mention (Humanities and Social Sciences): Masao Kawasaki
TPP11 and the Economic Revitalization of Rural Japan:
​The Effect of Culture and Consumer Preferences on Demand for Domestic Food Products