Undergraduates In The News
Metal-organic framework (MOF) materials are a novel organic-nonorganic hybrid. Known for their high surface area and porosity, they have a wide range of applications in catalysis, gas separation, and drug delivery.
Undergraduate research experiences have the potential to motivate undergraduate students to pursue a career or go to graduate school in science and engineering and also contribute to students’ technical and professional skills.
The State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction allows citizens to deduct taxes paid off of their federally taxable income. This deduction has been the subject of partisan, geographic sparring for over a century.
Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC) is the 7th most common cancer worldwide. However, despite its prevalence, only one HNSCC-targeted therapy exists. Unfortunately, this therapy has only shown modest efficacy in patients; thus, the need to develop a more effective treatment arises. The ceramide nanoliposome (CNL) is a therapeutic currently in clinical trials for numerous cancers.
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by the occurrence of sudden seizures, and is one of the most common neurological disorders worldwide, affecting approximately forty to fifty million people. Seizures are characterized by the continual, excessive high-frequency discharge of impulses by a network of neurons, which can activate other neuronal circuits, causing seizures to spread.
One distinguishing hallmark of cancer cells includes a deregulated cellular metabolism that can be reprogrammed to preferentially exhibit dependence on glycolysis over oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) even in the presence of oxygen (Warburg Effect).
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) is an end-stage lung disease that is mediated by force interactions within the lung epithelium. The current standard of care aims to reduce the symptoms of the disease through non-curative drug treatments or by lung transplantation. Our team aims to determine an additional upstream target that would reduce the progression of fibrosis.
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a devastating aging-associated neurodegenerative disorder and the leading cause of dementia. One of the pathological hallmarks of this disease is the accumulation and aggregation of neurotoxic amyloid beta (Aβ) peptides, thought to contribute to cognitive decline.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from anthropogenic sources continue to rise and are contributing to damaging effects on the environment, one of them being the shift to more extreme weather conditions from global warming. The cause of this is the continually increasing use of fossil fuels, which has been our primary source of nonrenewable energy.
The main purpose of the research is to understand the ways in which both undergraduates and graduate students can benefit from working with each. Consequently. I have been tasked with reading transcripts of meetings and interviews from laboratories. After doing this, I worked on coding the data and creating categories for relevant themes.
Since 1978, the American Society of News Editors (ASNE) has collected demographic data on the country’s newsrooms as part of its efforts to “drive the quest for diversity and inclusion in the workplace and in news content across all platforms.” The central assumption behind these efforts is that by increasing diversity in the newsroom, journalists will produce news that better reflects the need
The inability to reliably measure cell viability in engineered tissues remains a major roadblock to the regenerative medicine and tissue engineering industries. Cell viability is a commonly measured product attribute for therapeutic devices that contain cells.
The experience sampling method (ESM) is a methodology where surveys are distributed randomly at intervals to participants over the course of a study. Using ESM, researchers can obtain a more accurate representation of participants’ daily activities, feelings, and behaviors over a period of time.
In the United States 3.5 million individuals currently suffer from chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, and the incidence of new cases of acute infection has increased dramatically over the past few years.