The COVID-19 pandemic forced college education to shift from face-to-face to online instruction. This effort is particularly challenging for freshmen and sophomore students, in engineering design projects where collaboration is needed. The study aims to qualitatively understand challenges and possible strategies in remote design collaboration through the lens of an undergraduate-level engineering design introduction class. […]
C11-T: The Attitudes Values and Beliefs of Faculty and Parents of Deaf Students in Listening and Spoken Language Programs
Research area/Question Language deprivation is common among the approximately three-quarters of deaf children who aren’t given access to sign language.This can result from an over reliance on hearing devices to provide access to spoken language as well as a bias against Deafness and sign language also known as oralism. When language acquisition is hindered, one’s […]
C02-T: Heart: A Book of Short Stories Examining the Complexities of Love and Relationships
Over the past year I conducted research in the areas of Psychology and English, mainly applying concepts to the question: What makes hookup culture so enticing for young adults in collegiate settings? As a young adult myself, I had always wondered what the psychological connections were between this type of culture and feelings of fulfilment […]
B01-T: Assessment of the Radiocarbon Reservoir Effect in Modern Aquatic Gastropod and Bivalve Shells of Four Mile Creek, Ohio
Radiocarbon reservoir effects occur when organisms incorporate carbon that is not in equilibrium with the modern atmosphere. These reservoir effects often result in 14C ages of fossils shells that are too old, often by thousands of years. Dissolution of limestone bedrock in southwestern Ohio may lead stream water to be enriched in old, dissolved carbon […]
A09-T: Littering in College Towns: How Students’ Perceptions Align With Reality
Littering leads to soil and water pollution and poses threats to ecological systems. This research investigates littering in college towns and surrounding natural areas, through an interdisciplinary lens. We examined: why do college students litter? Understanding the motivations behind littering would allow for the development of effective programs and policy to combat littering in college […]
A01-T: The Culture of “Devadasis” in India
My family was always reluctant to answer questions that I had about the stories of Devadasis. Therefore, their reluctance led me to research more on them. With the help of my supervisor, I started reading the book, Given to Goddess by Lucinda Ramberg, who had researched specifically on the culture in the Ashrams (Religious shrines) […]
C03-T: Sequence Stratigraphy of the Albian-Cenomanian Naturita Formation and Lower Mancos Shale, Eastern Utah and Western Colorado
The late Albian-Cenomanian Naturita Fm. and lower Mancos Shale in eastern Utah and western Colorado are interpreted as containing three unconformity-bound depositional sequences. The first Naturita sequence (Kn1) consists of fluvial channel conglomerates/sandstones and overbank mudstones deposited above a regional erosion surface above the Albian Ruby Ranch Member of the Cedar Mountain Fm. The second […]
A04-T: The Dynamism of Captaincy and Leadership in Miami Football: A History
While Miami’s history of coaching greatness has been previously studied and popularized by the “Cradle of Coaches,” the intricacies of student-athlete leadership and captaincy offer remarkable and untapped research potential. Utilizing the Miami University Archives, I conducted in-depth historical research to examine the evolution of captaincy and leadership in Miami’s football program. With the goal […]
B05-T: Mineralogy of Hicks Dome Breccias, Southern Illinois
The Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District (IKFD) represents a fluoritic subclass of Mississippi Valley-Type deposits (MVT), which are low-temperature lead-zinc ore deposits formed by hydrothermal fluids. Typically MVTs lack contribution from and do not occur near igneous activity. However, due to a cryptoexplosive feature, surrounding Hicks Dome are numerous mafic and ultramafic igneous intrusions, most of which […]
C12-T: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Social Vulnerability and COVID-19 Impact in the United States
The COVID-19 pandemic has certainly affected all of us over the past year; however, not all regions of the country have been impacted equally. The purpose of our project is to determine how well the impact of COVID-19 across the United States has been predicted by “social vulnerability,” which is defined by the CDC as […]