Undergraduates In The News
To further reduce the spread of corrosive behavior within common metals used in aircraft and watercraft construction, understanding of cathodic and anodic reactions within crevices is needed. Additionally, the study of the effects of chromate-based paints on the electrochemical environment is conducted.
Approximately one in five adults in the United States have been diagnosed with some form of mental illness, but less than half received treatment in this past year (NAMI, 2019).
Song birds are exceptional in their ability to differentiate between various vocalizations, distinguish between songs from specific species, and recognize individual song production. The CM section in the auditory region is essential to these abilities. It allows the bird to recognize song even in noisy conditions.
Groups of individuals with a common identity may choose to aid themselves, intra group aid, or outside groups, intergroup aid. To learn more about the situations in which individuals aid their own group problem versus outside groups, we created four conditions.
Despite a rich history of aesthetic and narrative production, very few pre-Hispanic indigenous texts are known today, primarily because of the force of the Catholic Church and Inquisition during the conquest and settlement period of the Americas. One of the few remaining texts is the Popol Wuj, a text from the K’iche’ people of the Guatemalan highlands.
The research goal seeks to understand how a gene functions in the maintenance of the lungs in adult mouse lines. The gene of interest is CBP, which plays a fundamental role in early embryonic development and tumor growth.
Roots comprise over half of the biomass of plants in arctic tundra ecosystems; despite this, the representation of roots in ecosystem models is typically lacking, in part due to the difficulty in observing roots and their behavior in nature, in contrast to the better realized representation of the above-ground portion of plants.
Digital media is slowly finding its way into academia in the form of digital lecture platforms and textbooks. Traditional print media offers far less versatility than digital texts, which can provide audio resources, video resources, and interactive questions that paper texts simply cannot provide.
In the coming years, the use of low-powered integrated circuits in self-powered systems and the Internet of Things will require millions, if not billions of sensors to be powered. This project aims to meet that need by exploiting temperature gradients through the use of thermoelectric generators.
Self-assembling peptide hydrogels create finely tunable microenvironments to promote cell proliferation and differentiation . Previous work has shown that such hydrogels can be chemically modified while retaining physical characteristics and are capable of protecting cells during syringe injection.
This research project is focused on the modeling and simulation of biomedical fluid dynamics problems that involve blood flow in veins of human central nervous system or airflows in human airway during snoring and phonation. Patient-specific 3D models such as blood vessels, uvulas, and vocal cords, are reconstructed based on CT or MRI data.
Injection of pluripotent stem-cell derived cardiomyocytes and neurons represents a promising strategy to treat tissue damaged in heart or neurodegenerative diseases and trauma.
Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC) is a cancer arising from the squamous cells of the oral and nasal cavities as well as the larynx and pharynx. Despite over 800,000 individuals being afflicted with this disease across the globe each year, current treatment options remain poor.
How can teacher language motivate students to ask questions and think more deeply? This research, under the supervision of Dr. Jamie Jirout, sought to answer that question by investigating the impact of teachers’ rhetoric in preschool classrooms on children’s curiosity and motivation.