Undergraduates In The News
Improving infrastructure inspection methods and the ability to assess their conditions is a developing priority as the age of American infrastructure increases and their condition deteriorates.
It is common knowledge that undergraduate STEM students’ underrepresented minority status (i.e., Black, Hispanic, women, first-generation, low-income) has the potential to significantly impact their educational experience. Despite quantitative data on the persistence and achievement of these individuals, little is known about their perceptions of these experiences.
The current research that is being conducted in the psychology department is one that involves assessing individual spatial skills, abstract reasoning skills, understanding if people have implicit association toward gender roles and gender spatial play. As individuals grow older, the type of toys that they choose to play with is heavily influenced by their parents.
The purpose of this project was to evaluate strategies for addressing the opioid epidemic and predict the future of the epidemic for individual American states. Opioid overdoses lead to roughly 116 deaths per day across the United States. Policy responses vary drastically by state, and many programs are not supported by data on their impact of addressing the crisis.
Arctic tundra vegetation has been dynamic over time, especially as the present-day climate change warms the Arctic regions at twice the rate of the global average. In general, the “greenness” of arctic tundra vegetation has been increasing throughout the Arctic (e.g. Alaska, Canada, and northern Russia) over at least the past 5 decades, suggesting broad environmental changes in these regions.
Tissue fibrosis is a pathological scarring process triggered by chronic inflammatory processes resulting from repeated damage such as viral infection, chemical insult, or injury to the tissue.
Atherosclerosis, also known as hardening of the arteries, is a condition where an artery wall thickens as a result of buildup of cholesterol or plaque. It is a major cause of death and disability in the United States, accounting for approximately 50% of all deaths in adults.
Ecological processes have shown sensitive responses to changes in marine carbonate chemistry (e.g., dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) concentration and pH levels). Through water-column mixing via strong winds, hurricanes can introduce the changes in marine carbonate chemistry and possibly accelerate the process of ocean acidification.
After the Roman dictator Sulla besieged and colonized Pompeii in 89 BCE, he instituted Roman-style elections that continued until the city’s demise in the 79 CE eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. Modern historians know this because when Pompeii was rediscovered in the late sixteenth century, they found electoral notices painted on the walls.
In the nineteenth century, leading public intellectuals like Alexis de Tocqueville of France, John Stuart Mill of Great Britain, and Senator Charles Sumner of the United States found the continued existence of slavery in the US unsettling. Tocqueville predicted a race war and lamented about the escalating violence in US politics over slavery.
Coronary artery disease (CAD) caused by atherosclerosis is the leading cause of death worldwide. This disease is characterized by the buildup of atherosclerotic plaque made of substances including lipids and cellular waste. Succeeding plaque buildup, Smooth Muscle Cells (SMCs) migrate and proliferate to form a fibrous cap that stabilizes the plaque.
Methane from natural gas is a critical resource, but the difficulty of transporting natural gas has resulted in underutilization of methane. In oil wells, excess methane is flared because it is not cost-effective to capture, releasing large amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere.
Genomic integrity is essential to a healthy central nervous system (CNS). While DNA damage, in the form of double-stranded DNA breaks (dsDNA), is common within the CNS as a result of normal neuronal activity and neuronal dieback during development, evidence has shown that the accumulation of DNA damage within the CNS contributes to neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders.
United States Navy vessels are susceptible to intergranular corrosion due to a humid, chlorine-saturated environment. The presence of copper metal accelerates IGC growth in grain boundaries of aluminum alloys, decreasing the aluminum’s structural integrity and lifetime. To reduce cost and labor of repair and to increase longevity of vessels, resistant alloys are to be employed.