Brooke Keeton and Dr. John Prince, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) is the most common type of leukemia in adults.1 Over 75% of patients diagnosed with B-CLL are over the age of 50 years old, and have a median survival between 18 months and 3 years.2 B-CLL originates from a […]
Determining Surface Roughness Using Extreme Ultraviolet Light
Joshua Marx and Steve Turley, Department of Physics and Astronomy Extreme ultraviolet (XUV) light is light with wavelengths between one and 60 nanometers. The shorter wavelengths of light in this range are on the same order of magnitude as atomic dimensions. Currently, XUV optics have many uses and even more potential applications in a variety […]
Mega-autophagosome Induction by Human COX-3 and Human Nucleobindin
Gideon N. Logan and Daniel Simmons, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Introduction Cyclooxygenase (COX) isoenzymes catalyze the first step of prostanoid synthesis, which plays a role in various conditions including pain, inflammation, arthritis, and cancer. Recently our laboratory has shown that mammalian cell lines transfected with the COX-1 splice variant, COX-3, express translationally recoded proteins, […]
Learning Chemistry Through Experimentation
Brent Kamba and Dr. Jennifer Nielson, Chemistry There is a great need for students to learn scientific skills in Uganda. Very few students pass the national chemistry exams (about 40%) and even fewer go on to study science fields in higher education. The teaching methods in Uganda are a little bit old fashion where students […]
Bottom-Up Development of Nanoelectronics using DNA Origami Templates
John Jensen and Dr. Adam T. Woolley, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Introduction DNA origami is the method of folding a large single stranded DNA (ssDNA) with multiple smaller ssDNA “staple” strands into a predesigned shape, making it an attractive option in the bottom-up construction of nanoelectronic components, such as nanowires. These structures can be […]
Molecular-Level Interactions Responsible for Retention in Liquid Chromatography
Jessica Jenkins and James Patterson, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Introduction In many fields of work, such as medicine or pharmaceutical research, it is necessary to separate chemically similar compounds. Liquid chromatography, which involves a mixture of compounds (analyte) dissolved in a mobile phase flowing through a packed column (stationary phase), is the most widely […]
Differences in Cognitive Processing Between Deaf and Hearing Individuals When Presented with Linguistic Stimuli
Aubrey Hatch and Michael Jones, Computer Science My project was designed to increase our understanding of the neurological processes of deaf individuals to shape future adaptive technologies to facilitate better education for the deaf community. More specifically, my goal was to focus on the cognitive differences between deaf and hearing individuals when presented with different […]
Zeros of Poincare Series of Level 2
Andrew Haddock, Paul Jenkins, Mathematics Introduction Poincaré series are a certain type of modular form. Modular forms are complex-valued functions that satisfy certain symmetry properties. There are many different types of modular forms, and one way to classify modular forms is by their level, such as 1, 2, 3, etc. They are of much interest […]
Science in a Nutshell: Studying the Use of Humor in Science Writing
Meredith Gold and Professor Gus Hart Introduction The purpose of this study was to expand upon a previous and successful unofficial study that I did in high school, testing the effectiveness of humor in instructional science writing. Despite the fact that various extenuating circumstances (including multiple cases of prolonged illness) hindered measurable data collection, the […]
Relating Quantum Dynamics and Entanglement
John Gardiner and Jean-Francois Van Huele, Physics and Astronomy Introduction Entanglement is a quantum phenomenon that is important to many applications including quantum computing and cryptography. The way that a quantum system changes in time is encoded in a mathematical object called the Hamiltonian of the system. The goal of this project was to better […]
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