This project examined the application of a forensic analysis of cosmetics for the undergraduate teaching laboratory using infrared spectroscopic and microscopic techniques. Samples analyzed included known cosmetic ingredients, open cosmetic containers, a suspect’s t-shirt with a makeup smudge, and a cotton swab sample taken from the victim’s face. These samples were characterized by FTIR and […]
B80: Sports as a Medium for Positive Youth Development: A Review of the Literature
My community psychology capstone group studied positive youth development (PYD) theory, an approach to youth development focused on the promotion of a child’s strengths rather than the purging of their problems. This theory is directly applicable to our class’s work with The Boys and Girls Club (BGC) of Hamilton. Because we found that much of […]
B20: Synthesis, Identification, and Characterization of Co(II) Spin Crossover Complexes
Spin Crossover (SCO) Complexes are coordination complexes that exhibit huge changes in magnetic properties under external stimulus, and thus this abrupt change attracted attentions to be studied. This shift in property is a result of transition of the center metal between high-spin and low-spin states, which are two electronic states of the d orbital in […]
A94: Breast Cancer Survivorship Among Indian American Women: Comparison Research Between Indian Women Living in the U.S. and Those Living in India
This study explores to understand the experiences of breast cancer survivorship amongst underrepresented individuals, particularly women of Indian ethnic origin living both in the United States and in India. Many studies in the past have explored the experiences of breast cancer survivorship, though little has been done to explore the factors that contribute to these […]
A42: Roman Influence on the Emergence of Written German
German is one of the most widely spoken languages today, but what do we know about its origins? While German as a language is different from Latin and later Romance languages, many Indo-European elements of German are very similar to Latin, especially lexically and morphologically. The earliest accounts of the “Germani” were written by Roman […]
C52: Quantum Mechanical Anti-Lasers in Optical Cavities and Waveguides
First demonstrated in 2011, Coherent Perfect Absorption (CPA) is a robust technique to achieve perfect absorption when shining a coherent light on a loss medium with no apprent reflection, behaving just like an ideal blackbody. The technique is colloquially referred to as an “anti-laser”, for it is exatly the lasing process played backwards in time. […]
BRII-04: Towards Optics-Based Metabolic Sensing in Tissue
Optical techniques that measure endogenous fluorescence can provide useful information on the status of cellular metabolism, but extensions of these techniques to turbid media (such as tissue) are often complicated by a multitude of emission signals. Phasor analysis is class of analytical approaches used to monitor emission signals that has potential to simplify measurements in […]
B40: Acclimation of an Antarctic Alga to Environmental Stress
In studying the Antarctic psychrophile Chlamydomonas sp. UWO 241, one topic of particular interest has been the novel mechanisms it uses to deal with stress and maintain photosynthetic capability in its environment. Previous work established that UWO 241 uses constitutively upregulated photosystem-I driven cyclic electron flow to deal with high salinity stress. The goal of […]
C23: Probing human KCNE1 dynamics in various novel nanodiscs using continuous wave- electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy (CW-EPR)
Characterizing membrane proteins using biophysical techniques remains a challenge due to maintaining the structural integrity of the membrane protein in vitro. Recently, a novel membrane mimetic system has come of age where an amphiphilic copolymer, styrene-maleic acid (SMA), is added to heterogeneous lipid bilayers to form small homogeneous discs (~10 nm) called styrene-maleic acid copolymer […]
B56: KFC or the Nixtamal tortilla: Globalization is changing dietary habits with negative outcomes for older adult longevity in Costa Rica
In the field of global health, there are many well understood examples of the spread of infectious disease across continents, yet evidence supporting the worldwide spread of chronic disease due to global changes in dietary habits is less documented. During my travels to areas with extreme longevity in Costa Rica with the Spanish Department, octogenarians […]
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