Humans have caused major changes to our environment, one example being pesticide pollution. Over 1 billion pounds of pesticides are used annually in the United States. Pesticides do not remain isolated in the terrestrial environment but accumulate in freshwater systems. Globally, parasite-induced diseases are on the rise and pesticide pollution may be a contributing factor. […]
B43: Are We Changing Children’s Lives? The Effects of an Early Intervention Program on Parenting Attitudes and Child Wellbeing
For the Global Health Minor immersion experience, I spent Winter Term volunteering with Baby University, a nonprofit attempting to close the education gap in South Toledo by equipping parents of children ages 0-5 for the vital role they play in their child’s development and early education. Baby U carries out this mission via free, ten-week […]
A11: Identification and association of maize imprinted genes with transposable elements in maize endosperm
Genomic imprinting is believed to be an inherently epigenetic phenomenon in which differential allele expression occurs in a parent-of-origin dependent manner. In plants, imprinting is mainly observed in the endosperm, an organ specialized to supply nutrients to the developing angiosperm embryo. The major causes of genomic imprinting are changes to gene accessibility resulting from DNA […]
B38: Developing a Hyperspectral Database for Remote Sensing of Mine Waste in Tonopah, Nevada
The mine waste in and around the town of Tonopah in Nevada has been an issue for the residents for years. The issue is that without proper testing, someone may accidentally start construction on a pile of old mine waste without even realizing it. Thus creating a health hazard for both the construction workers and […]
B33: Factors Controlling Hydraulic Fracture Induced Seismicity in Ohio
Induced seismicity in Eastern Ohio has been ongoing for the past several years, much of which is attributed directly to hydraulic fracturing (HF) wells. To help parse which factors influence the generation of earthquakes in the region we gathered public well data for the HF wells in Harrison, Monroe, and Noble county. This dataset allowed […]
A25: Turning a Cell Phone into a Spectrometer
Spectrometers are large and very expensive devices that are not very portable. The aim of this project is to use a cell phone and a small device that attaches onto the camera and have it output and analyze a sample similar to how spectrometers do. There are many applications for a spectrometer including but not […]
CSI-05: Parental and Child Psychosocial Benefit From a Summer Camp Designed for Medically Fragile Youth
Summer camp provides a normative childhood experience for many healthy, neurotypical youth across the United States. To expand the number of youth given access to these experiences, summer camps have been created in recent decades catered towards medically fragile or non-neurotypical youth. Dragonfly Forest is one such summer camp that provides programming for kids with […]
CSIV-01: Reporting of Sexual Assault on Airlines
This research takes a sociological look at sexual assault on airplanes, and why there seems to be a higher rate of reporting. Sexual assault is of high interest in the field of sociology, but there seems to be a gap in the data about those incidents that take place on airplanes. We used 80 news […]
B03: Genetic Manipulation of Nerve Ensheathment in fruit flies: Impacts on Motor Behaviors
The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is a well-known genetic model organism, with over 100 years of research. Over a 10-day life cycle, an embryo hatches to give rise to a larva, which grows in size and, after a four day period of metamorphosis, a fly emerges. Each stage has distinct behaviors, which are associated with […]
BRII-02: Does Late Bilingualism Impact Cognitive Flexibility?
Executive functioning encompasses all the cognitive processes that are involved in conscious thought and action (Anderson, 2002). Research in bilingualism has suggested that those who know a second language have certain advantages in these cognitive processes (Bialystok, Craik, Green, & Gollan, 2009). However, it has also been suggested that those who learn their second language […]
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