Undergraduates In The News
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.
Obesity leads to overactive hunger signals and difficulty limiting food intake. While some of the players in feeding behavior are known, such as leptin inhibition of feeding-promoting AgRP neurons, enhancing our understanding of feeding neurocircuits would provide new means of addressing obesity.
This research project is designed to collect data about the diet of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to analyze how their diet may differ from those without this disease, and if these differences affect the development of autistic behavioral symptoms.
This presentation reports on an ongoing study designed to test the effects of KT109 and a supplemental, proprietary drug in reducing inflammation in those suffering from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). NAFLD involves the excess of fatty tissue in the liver and can lead to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and cirrhosis.
Dopamine (DA) is an important neurotransmitter in the brain, and issues with DA signaling are associated with many different neurologic and psychiatric disorders. DA related processes are highly conserved, which enables the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster to be used as a model organism to study DA.
In this study, we seek to identify a relationship between the content of campaigns of Congressional candidates and their legislative effectiveness once in office. We believe that by applying previous indicators researched by the Center of Effective Lawmaking we have identified in campaigns 15 variables that may predict legislative effectiveness.
The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union initiated a revival of nationalism in Russia. In the 1990s, Russians began grappling with their national identity in new and profound ways, and some came to believe that Russia was strictly for Russians.
The purpose of the George Washington Financial Papers Project is to compile the financial documents of George Washington into an accessible digital edition.
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of highly porous, crystalline substances with many possible applications in areas such as gas separation, energy storage, catalysis, and sensing. In order to implement MOFs into such applications on an industrial scale, faster methods for their synthesis must be developed.
Parent-involvement is a verifiable predictor of academic success among primary school students (LeFevre & Shaw, 2011). And yet, Latino parents are less likely to reach out to teachers first because they find the U.S. education system to be daunting (Auerbach, 2004).
This research project focuses on a gait analysis of children with cerebral palsy. The purpose of this study is to analyze the angular momentum of these children with or without the use of a posterior walker.
Large granular lymphocytic (LGL) leukemia is a rare hematological cancer characterized by a clonal expansion of either cytotoxic T cells or natural killer (NK) cells. These cells normally function to remove cancer cells and virally infected cells. However in LGLL, these cells are expanded even in the absence of known antigens.
Shell middens are archaeological deposits that form when people eat large amounts of oysters and other shellfish. For the Native American communities that lived on the lower Delmarva Peninsula during the Late Woodland period, shell middens were often gathering places for ceremonial feasts.
Toxoplasma gondii is a parasite that can be found in humans and animals across the world. The disease caused by the infection of the parasite has the greatest effect on people with weakened immune systems and pregnant women.
This study is interested in how victims who forgive their transgressors are perceived. The researchers believe that forgivers are admired more when the observer themselves would have chosen to not forgive rather than to forgive.