Accurate measurements of blood pressure, a major indicator of multiple health risks, and its continuous monitoring are extremely important for personal health care. Invasive methods, which are unpractical for daily use, are the most accurate way to measure blood pressure (BP). Thus, there is a growing need for more accurate and convenient non-invasive measurement wearables […]
A02-T: The Gauci Brothers’ Holy Land Model
The research project that I am presenting is part of an independent study course in Anthropology designed by Dr. James Bielo, entitled Materiality and the Circulation of Culture. The project entailed a critical reading of scholarship in anthropology, material religion, and museum studies; an analysis of >100 newspaper stories (1924-62) detailing a traveling Holy Land […]
A39-P: Lessons Learned from an Unequal Opportunity Storm: Hurricane Katrina, 15 Years Later
When it comes to planning, learning from the past can be key in adapting, changing and improving for the future. This study aims to help make cities more resilient by accounting for racial disparities in natural disaster response and recovery planning. Creating cities that are more environmentally just will in turn make them more resilient […]
A22-P: Extracting Kinetic Information From Multiple Polymer Distributions
My research is in the field of organic chemistry, specifically polymer science. The goal for this project was to develop a preexisting model to predict kinetic information for other polymer systems. The original model was used to predict kinetic information for RAFT polymer systems, but we wanted to make it more versatile and apply it […]
B28-P: Importance of Light for Growth and Productivity of Antarctic Microbial Samples
Antarctic lake microbes survive in environments with a myriad of extreme conditions. Understanding microbial community structure and metabolic diversity in these stressful conditions is an underexplored topic in microbial ecology. Notably, these communities are largely dependent on photosynthesis to form the base of their food webs, and thus light availability has major implications on community […]
A03-T: Spatial Factors Enabling the Trafficking of Women and Children from and within the Philippines
Throughout my undergraduate career, I have concentrated on injustices and crises that predominantly impact women and children. Following my interests, I chose to research the spatial factors enabling human trafficking from and within the Philippines. In this research, I explore the spatial factors contributing to the ‘invisibility’ of trafficking that allows the industry to go […]
B04-P: Exploring the Physiological & Perceptual Responses to the Fusion of Aerobic & Resistance Exercise in a Single Workout
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (USDHHS) has stated that an unsettling 82% of adults do not get the recommended amount of physical activity to improve health and well-being. Additionally, one of the goals for Healthy People 2020 urges individuals to increase muscle-strengthening activity and incorporate this […]
A100: Leadership With Bridges Scholars
I participated in a two semester, First Year Research Experience [FYRE] course, for Bridges Scholars students. The goal of this program is to encourage students from diverse backgrounds; students with different race/ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status. First and second year students at Miami are required to live on campus, and can choose […]
A14: Crown-ether appended Ortho-phenylenes with bound chiral guests
Many abiotic foldamers are composed of achiral parts but adopt chiral geometries, like helices. In these systems, there is no inherent preference for one handedness of the fold. Ortho-phenylenes are a class of aromatic foldamers that fold into helices driven by arene-arene stacking interactions. Although their folding is now reasonably understood, it is not clear […]
A21: Astronomical Approximations: Making Them Suck Less
Approximations are both a necessity and a bane to astrophysical research, especially on the issue of the Missing Matter Problem. On one end the numbers involved are literally too astronomically large to work with without approximations, but on the other end with such complicated and occasionally chaotic systems like galaxies they can royally ruin the […]
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