Undergraduates In The News
Social relationships are essential for a healthy human life, where relationships between mates (pair bonds) and between parents and offspring provide both physical and psychological benefits for the individuals involved.
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.
The Papers of George Washington transcribes manuscripts from and to George Washington that are often difficult for today's readers to read in order to make those manuscripts accessible. PGW also annotates the transcriptions with footnotes to help readers interpret the manuscripts.
Tissue regeneration provides a method by which cell behavior can be guided toward functional tissue regeneration. Tissue regeneration scaffolds currently lack the ability to accurately represent and mimic the innate extracellular matrix (ECM). The ECM greatly influences cell development, processes, and signaling.
Latinx Activation in the Shenandoah Valley is a research effort to put together information on the conditions that the rural Latinx population is in, while also working towards equitable solutions for a stronger future.
This research’s main goal is to investigate individuals’ thoughts and feelings in different social contexts and see how an online training targeting people’s thoughts about situations might lead to changes in everyday life.
Many human health studies require complex equipment and unwieldy wiring to accurately measure bodily functions such as heart rate. In this age of smartphones and smartwatches, potential study participants may already own an iPhone which tracks steps and sleep or an Android watch with a sensitive accelerometer and continuous heart rate monitoring.
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.
Recent studies have suggested associations between food consumption and cognitive performance. This study evaluates the relationships between self-perception of hunger and fullness, food consumed, and cognitive function in young children.
For this project, we are collaborating with The Juice Laundry (TJL), a local juice and smoothie bar, to research how consumers’ perceptions of a company’s authenticity influence their spending habits. The literature suggests that two types of authenticity include authenticity as consistency and authenticity as conformity.
This research explores the ways that whiteness impacts multiracial congregations.
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.
Purpose: Prediabetes can be characterized as impaired fasting glucose (IFG) with or without impaired glucose tolerance (IGT; 2-hr blood glucose). However, whether people with IFG and/or IFG+IGT have elevated lactate concentrations compared to normal glucose tolerant (NGT) controls is unclear.
The da-Vinci Surgical System (dVSS) is a tele-robotic surgical system that provides surgeons with enhance dexterity, precision, and control in performing minimally invasive surgical procedures like laparoscopic surgery. To be able to use this technology, surgeons have to receive accreditation and proper technical training for these procedures.
Obesity is a growing epidemic that increases the risk of chronic diseases in children and adults. Biologically, obesity is the excessive accumulation of triacylglycerol (TAG), a storage lipid that constitutes most of human body fat. Lipin is a phosphatidate phosphatase (PAP) enzyme involved in regulating the biosynthesis of triacylglycerol.