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Oral Fluency Through Writing

September 13, 2018 by admin

Janae Campbell and Faculty Mentor: Stephen J. Moody, Department of Asian and Near Eastern Studies Learning a second language is difficult. While learning, writing and speaking are treated as though they are two totally separate things. It is evident that people do not speak the same way they write, but that does not mean that […]

Filed Under: Asian and Near Eastern Languages, College of Humanities, ORCA-2017

Perscriptivist Rules by Type Finding the Values in English Usage Manuals

September 13, 2018 by admin

Delaney Barney and Faculty Mentor: Don Chapman, Department of Linguistics and English Language Introduction The popular view of usage manuals like Fowler’s Modern English Usage (1926) and Garner’s Modern American Usage (2003) is that they contain a well-established set of rules. We expect to find the same language rules we’ve been practicing since elementary school: […]

Filed Under: College of Humanities, English, ORCA-2017

Michelangelo’s Rondanini Pietà: Construction, Creation, and Sculptural Meditation

September 13, 2018 by admin

Heidi Pyper Faculty Mentor: Elliott D. Wise, Department of Comparative Arts and Letters I organized this research project to better understand Michelangelo’s final work and sculpture, the Rondanini Pietà, which contains an upright Jesus supported from behind by Mary (Fig. 1). Michelangelo labored on the sculpture up until the last days of his life, and […]

Filed Under: College of Humanities, Comparative Arts and Letters, ORCA-2017

Recognizing the Portuguese Immigrants of the 1940s through Photographs by Visual Anthropologist John Collier Jr.

September 13, 2018 by admin

Anna Giberson and Faculty Mentor: James Swensen, Department of Comparative Arts and Letters This project focused on the study of the photographs of Portuguese immigrants in Massachusetts taken in 1942 by John Collier Jr., an important pioneer in visual anthropology. My goal was to analyze Collier’s photographs in order to raise awareness of the contributions […]

Filed Under: College of Humanities, Comparative Arts and Letters, ORCA-2017

Analyzing and Mutating Structural Patterns To Create New Music in the Style of Other Music

September 12, 2018 by admin

Drew Jex and Dr. Dan Ventura, Computer Science Department Introduction A common element in music is the concept of repeating patterns. It is the careful organization and combination of notes and rhythms that forms these patterns, and indeed the very essence of music itself. Because music is definitive and pattern-based, we as humans recognize it […]

Filed Under: College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Computer Science, ORCA-2017

Development and Evaluation of an EEG-Based Symbol-Digit Substitution Task

September 12, 2018 by admin

Christopher Beckett and Dr. Bruce Brown, Department of Psychology Introduction The event-related potential (ERP) method has led to major advances in the experimental exploration of the neurological correlates of human cognition (Luck, 2005). The usual process is to take EEG (electroencephalographic) recordings during a cognitive task. The recording is timelocked to a stimulus so that […]

Filed Under: College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, ORCA-2017, Psychology

Detecting Cognitive Distortions Using Machine Learning and Text Analytics

September 12, 2018 by admin

Taetem Simms and Dr. Christophe Giraud-Carrier, Department of Computer Science Introduction Due to the rise of social media data, health scientists have become more engaged in using computational modeling to better understand health and health behavior. Pentland et al. have noted that daily use of technology “leave digital breadcrumbs – tiny records of our daily […]

Filed Under: College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Computer Science, ORCA-2017

Parameter Reduction of the Hodgkin-Huxley Model of a Spiking Neuron

September 12, 2018 by admin

Tyler Bahr and Dr. Mark Transtrum, Department of Physics and Astronomy Introduction The foundational model of voltage spiking in neurons, formulated by Hodgkin and Huxley in 1952, is composed of 4 dynamical variables and 25 parameters. The sheer complexity of the basic neuron model is a key issue which makes neural simulations computationally expensive. We […]

Filed Under: College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, ORCA-2017, Physics and Astronomy

PbSe and PbTe Quantum Dots inside the Ferritin Protein

September 12, 2018 by admin

Kameron Hansen and Dr. John Colton, Department of Physics and Astronomy Ferritin (FTN) is a spherical protein shell used nearly ubiquitously across life to store and transport iron in a non-toxic form. Ferritin’s natural occurring ferrihydrite mineral (Fe(O)OH) can be removed, leaving behind a hollow interior that conveniently serves as a template for researchers to […]

Filed Under: College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, ORCA-2017, Physics and Astronomy

Digital Analysis of Norwegian Tourist Journals: Searching for the Ecological Imaginary

September 12, 2018 by admin

Andrew Tate and Dr. Christopher Oscarson, Department of Comparative Arts and Letters I wanted to understand how Norwegians’ perceptions of their own country, particularly with regards to ecology, changed between the years 1868 and 1921. The Norwegian Tourist Association (or Den Norske Turistforening) has been publishing yearbooks since 1868. These publications are packed with articles […]

Filed Under: College of Humanities, Comparative Arts and Letters, ORCA-2017

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