Food insecurity is a global health issue that leads to detrimental effects to physical and mental health. This study looks closely at the barriers people experience in obtaining reliable and nutritious food, as well as the prevalence of chronic illnesses among families that experience food insecurity. This study was conducted at a local food pantry […]
B14: Characterizing the Role of NHE11 in Mammalian Sperm Physiology Using Crispr/Cas9 Gene Edited Mice
Sodium Hydrogen Exchangers (NHEs) are a family of proteins which are important for regulating the pH of a cell. Previous studies have found certain NHE proteins to be essential for sperm cell motility and fertility. There still remains one completely uncharacterized NHE protein: the NHE11 protein. Work in our lab has found that in mammals, […]
B15: Periodical Cicadas: The Potential Effects of Habitat Destruction on the Density of Magicicada spp. From 1987 to 2021.
Every 17 years, the Brood X periodical cicadas of the genus Magicicada (M. cassini, M. septemdecim, and M. septemdecula) emerge in Indiana and western Ohio. Like many other species, these cicadas are facing the effects of habitat destruction and climate change. Magicicada needs a specific ground temperature in order to emerge. Given that warmer temperatures […]
B16:Measuring Attention and Response Dynamics Across Choice Types
Students in the Computational Cognition Laboratory conducted a group project focused on creating a framework to conceptualize and model cognitive processes during typical decision making tasks. Our study explores how decision-making differs depending on whether there is an objective, correct response or whether one is expressing a personal preference. Importantly, this project combined standard choice […]
B21: The Effects of Psilocybin on Maternal Behavior
Certain psychiatric medications, like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), can be harmful during pregnancy and the postnatal period, having been shown to lead to birth defects and reduce maternal behaviors. These factors may require birthing parents to temporarily stop taking such medications, but ceasing them may pose a risk to the parent. This presents an […]
B22: How Universal is Arrhenius Behavior?
Diels-Alder click chemistry is a widely researched topic of chemistry through which polymers can be synthesized under relatively mild conditions. These polymers can then be crosslinked through Diels-Alder (DA) chemistry into materials containing temperature responsive linkers. In this project, DA bonded materials of varying crosslink density and polymer length were made into gel-like materials and […]
B24: Public Obesity Database In R package
The motivation for this project is to build an R package that outputs necessary data frames relevant to obesity costs, where the clients could easily manipulate the output using difference parameters, e.g. relative risks for each illnesses. This is in conjunction with another research project that estimated the state-level economic costs of obesity in the […]
B25: Modeling the Economic Cost of Obesity Risk and its Impact on Excess Mortality and Morbidity in the United States
Understanding the economic cost of obesity risk represents an important aspect of prevention and management of the obesity pandemic. Thus, assessing the economic impact of obesity on society is increasingly important. Prior studies about obesity-related costs in the United States focused more on the national-level direct and indirect costs that evolved over a short time […]
B26: Critically Evaluating Apps Used to Teach Social Skills to Young Children
As we learn more about child language development, we are curious as to how each individual child best develops the necessary skills to succeed. In today’s world, we are constantly being bombarded with technology; on average, people use apps on their devices between 194-223 days a year (Pontin et al., 2021). With the increasingly large […]
C12: The Effect of Off-Season Training on Aerobic Power in Miami University Club Rowers
In the world of sports, maximizing the training of performance variables within a sport will bring you one step closer to success over the competition. This study dives into the world of health sciences and aims to explore the effects of off-season training on the performance variables of rowers. The study aims to identify what […]