Undergraduates In The News
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.
Although traditional beliefs are important to many South Africans, there is a gap in the literature about how traditional religious belief and use of traditional healing services interact with social welfare/poverty status. Standard poverty assessments have not explored the poverty status of the traditionally religious.
High blood pressure (hypertension) is one of the leading epidemics in the United States of America with over three million cases per year. Aldosterone is a hormone that regulates blood pressure. My lab is interested in aldosterone driven hypertension.
Previous research has shown that people are good at judging others’ happiness. Judgments of others’ happiness are significantly associated with the person’s self-reported happiness. Little is known, however, about how people form such impressions about others’ happiness. In the present study, we examined what kinds of cues people use to judge their close friends’ happiness.
Binge eating is characterized as the unrestrained consumption of large amounts of food within a brief time period and is a heritable trait of eating disorders often associated with anxiety and depression. Not surprisingly, such eating disorders as Bulimia Nervosa (BN) and Binge Eating Disorder (BED), associate strongly with heightened impulsivity and drug seeking behavior.
The mechanism by which pathogenic Escherichia coli (E. coli) trespasses into the gastrointestinal tract remains heavily under-investigated, even though it is the second most common cause of child mortality in developing countries. Previous research has supported the role of chemotaxis in the colonization by E.
Women are making up more of those fleeing Central America, specifically the Northern Triangle (Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador), with the goal of a safer life for themselves and their families. This report seeks to answer several questions about the transit period is like for women—what challenges do they face, what is the nature of the violence faced, what assistance do they receive?
Cytokines are small protein signaling molecules secreted by immune cells in response to pathogens in order to increase communication and coordination between cells.
Metabolic syndrome (MetSyn) is a group of metabolic conditions that occur together and promote the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and type 2 diabetes. Disease conditions include abdominal obesity, insulin resistance, elevated serum triglyceride levels, depressed serum high-density lipoprotein levels, elevated blood glucose levels, and hypertension.
Under Professor Scott Doney, I am part of a group of undergraduate and graduate students in the Environmental Sciences Department who meet weekly with a group from the Statistics Department to analyze published research papers that combine the two subjects.
Transforming Community Spaces, or TCS, is a project intended to provide guidance to communities and institutions in finding ways to understand the histories associated with contested spaces and how they can reconcile those histories with the current use of the space. Case studies on specific communities compose one aspect of the project.
Payment technologies are increasingly being assembled as a form of social media (Acker and Murthy, 2019; Maurer 2016; Swartz, 2013). This study investigates the social uses and the social shaping of emerging money technologies by analyzing tweets about the person-to-person mobile payment platform Venmo (Zelizer, 1994; MacKenzie & Wajcman, 1999).
Small-cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) accounts for 15-20% of all lung cancer cases and is the most lethal form of lung cancer due to lack of effective treatments. One cause of differential and ineffectual responses to therapy is variations between cells that make up a tumor, or intra-tumor heterogeneity.
Online platforms like social media or “smart” appliances capture intimate aspects of our daily lives. This captured consumer data is now one of the most coveted resources of the 21st century. As personal data is increasingly caught between corporations and governments, consumers are inadvertently finding themselves vulnerable to regulations that restrict the movement of consumer data.
Life cycle management and performance monitoring of infrastructure is vital for gauging the conditions of said infrastructure. The specific technologies for three dimensional modeling and virtual reality environments have progressed to the point where they are popular choices for documenting a structure.