Demand for sustainable energy methods, especially solar panels, has been on the rise in recent years as awareness of the depletion and impact of fossil fuels grows. However, these panels are posing a new challenge of their own- finding what to do with the first generation of solar panels that are now reaching the end […]
BII-04: Improving Syntax Correctness and Breadth of Design Space Exploration in Functional Analysis
Functional analysis aims to decompose the main functions of a product, which can be large and complex, into more manageable subfunctions. Recently, interest in explicitly considering users during functional modeling has grown to enhance analysis completeness, but how this addresses some commonly reported challenges for novice engineers is not clear. This research proposes and assesses […]
BIII-02: Characterizing the lens regeneration process in Pleurodeles waltl
Regeneration is an extraordinary process shared across a diverse range of organisms. However, for most organisms, including humans, the range of regenerative capacity is lost after embryonic development and declines as development progresses. The mechanisms responsible behind the decline in regenerative capacity still need to be better understood. Some vertebrates, such as newts, have remarkable […]
BIII-01: Power in the Myths of Medusa and Persephone: Case-Studies in Classical Reception
Classical Reception is the process by which, “individuals and societies continually reappropriate and redefine classical antiquity in an effort to assert (or, at times, to challenge) continuity with a privileged past,” (Broder 505). It encourages classicists to examine the impacts ancient texts have made on those who have interacted with them and reveals the values […]
BIII-03: Composting On a Large Scale
For our research we wanted to examine the issues with the nitrogen cycle and how that was related to chemical fertilizers. This ended up turning into a closer look at composting and how this can be used to combat both environmental issues and food waste. We conducted our work through some basic field work and […]
BIV-01: Team Diversity and Equal Contribution in Engineering Design Projects
Student-centered and project-based collaborative learning strategy is highly emphasized in education, especially in STEM fields. Despite its many advantages in supporting learning and professional growth, negative factors that influence collaboration cannot be ignored. By far one of the most frequently mentioned factors is unequal contribution from teammates, which leads to frustrations in the process and […]
BIV-03: Effect of μ-Opioid Receptor Knockout on Fear Conditioning, Extinction, and Morphine-Analgesia
Our understanding of the biological mechanisms underlying fear, trauma, and the development of related disorders like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are incomplete. Thus, the search for players in the game continues. Among the brain regions identified as exhibiting maladaptive changes/activity in PTSD, the amygdala appears to serve an important role in the acquisition and expression […]
CSI-01: Radical Learning; Community Arts and Social Impact
Radical Learning; Community Arts and Social Impacts follows the research of a Preservice art education student. Using real life experiences, presenting, and engaging in interactive workshops and festivals. I am working to better understand how to build a community and answer the question of how radical learning can benefit all. As an art educator it […]
CSI-03: Displaced Germans: Exile and Trauma in East Asia (1920s-1940s)
Between the 1920s and the 1940s, many German and Austrian Jews who were escaping persecution from the Holocaust sought refuge in Shanghai, China. While there is extensive research on the impact of the Holocaust in the West, I chose to explore the escape and patterns of migration to East Asia. In Shanghai, China, European Jews […]
CSI-04: Effects of Acute Early Life Stress and CRH2 Receptor Antagonism on Anxiety in Adult Rats
After undergoing an early life stress (ELS) event, susceptibility to fear and anxiety-related disorders becomes more common. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and generalized anxiety disorder are often precipitated by ELS experience and can negatively impact one’s life and ability to function. An established reciprocal neural circuit between serotonergic neurons of the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) […]