Characterization of Mutant Chemokine (C-C) motif Receptor-Like 2 (CCRL2) and its Role in Inflammation and Alzheimer’s Disease

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Meganne Ferrel and Dr. John S. K. Kauwe, Biology Introduction Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is identified as a proteopathic disease that results from an extensive accumulation of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain. Several researchers have discovered that cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) contains biomarkers for AD such as Amyloid-beta and tau. Neuritic plaques in AD […]

Multiculturalism: The Search of Home Through Roots and Tentacles

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Daniela Ferreira and Brian Christensen, Art Introduction When this project was conceived, my idea was to exhibit how juxtaposition of marine creatures and perennial plants would help further the discussion of multiculturalism and the idea of home. The project consisted of traveling to the Audubon Park in New Orleans to observe century old oaks known […]

Evaluation of Novel Molten Salt Eutectics and Their Application in Novel Reactor Designs

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Kraig Farrar and Matthew Memmott, Chemical Engineering Molten salt reactors (MSR) are a relatively unexplored but promising technology for civilian nuclear power. Original experiments with this technology was performed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the 1950s and 1960s. While this research was successful, it ultimately failed to receive additional funding and the program […]

Cancerous Male and Female Gene Expression

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Clarissa Farmer and E. Shannon Tass, Statistics Genetic diagnosing is becoming more popular, as well as more and more accurate. However, many genetic diseases have complex genetic effects and are still not fully understood. Transthyretin Amyloidosis (ATTR; also known as familial or hereditary amyloidosis) is a terminal genetic disease. It is caused by unstable transthyretin […]

We Don’t Need Another Hero: Historiography and the Sophie Digital Library’s Science and Technology collection

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Michael Evans and Robert McFarland, Humanities Introduction The Sophie Digital Library is an online library and resource center for works produced by German-speaking women. These works are focused on the publications from pre- 17th century through the early 20th century. Unfortunately, the group of women in Germany living during this time faced many challenges and […]

Psychosocial Empowerment Group Creation and Implementation Among Malawi Women

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Libby Evans and Benjamin Ogles, Psychology Research has shown that most women in Malawi will experience some form of trauma or adversity in their lifetime, and that such adversity can increase rates of mental illness and instability by as much as 15-20% (Saxena, 2017). Simple psychosocial groups and trainings have been shown to increase psychological […]

Body Knows, Spirit Dances: Somatic approaches in cross cultural dance exchange

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Lauren Evans and Marin Roper, Dance In June 2018, I accompanied three other undergraduate Dance major students and my mentor to Bangalore, India where we observed, trained with and learned choreography from five Indian dance artists over a two-week period to learn and teach autobiographical solos reflecting a personal ‘search for the sacred.’ Another student […]

Can Stress Management and Personal Wellness Courses Improve Student Resiliency? A Pilot Study

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Aimee Schouten and Michael Thomas, College of Nursing Introduction: The nursing profession is emotionally and physically demanding. Long shifts, complex and often difficult patients, as well as working in an emotionally challenging environment all contribute major stress for nurses.[1,2] Over time this stress often turns into compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue and burnout become overwhelming to […]

Parenting and Media: The Influence of Prenatal Beliefs on Postnatal Practices

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Brady Eisert and Sarah Coyne, School of Family Life Introduction People born in the United States (US) today will be surrounded by media for most of their lives. However, very little work has been done longitudinally to examine how this media saturation is related to development. The existing research typically examines parenting predictors after the […]