Daniel Bjornn and Dr. Michael Larson, Department of Psychology Conflict adaptation is a neurological process that reflects the adjustment of performance on tasks when conflict is detected on previous trials. Conflict in this instance refers to the simultaneous activation of multiple response options. When conflict is detected, such as on an incongruent trial on Stroop […]
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Welfare to Votes: Does TANF Depress Political Participation?
Taylor (Bambas) Rosecrans and Dr. Christopher Karpowitz, Department of Political Science The purpose of my study is to find a link between government welfare programs and the political participation of recipients. This kind of study is called a policy feedback analysis. It examines a public policy to see what effect it had on human behavior. […]
La Photographie de Rue: The Changed Face of Doisneau’s Paris
Sarah Carrigan and Dr. James Swensen, Department of Visual Arts I suppose it all started in a textbook. Perhaps this shouldn’t be surprising, but as one who generally avoids superfluous bouts of academic reading, I’m still in a fair amount of awe that this project ever got dreamt up in the first place. Yet how […]
Cell-free Protein Synthesis Extract Preparation Methods
Troy Holland and Dr. Brad Bundy, Department of Chemical Engineering My ORCA project proposed to test and optimize various low capital cost cell lysis methods, while leaving the internal cell machinery intact and viable for cell-free protein synthesis research. Our cells of interest were a strain of the bacterium E. coli, and their cellular machinery […]
Using Photolithographically-Produced Micro-Channels with Controlled Pores to Create a Bacteria Filter for Blood
Sara Ehlert and Dr. Aaron Hawkins, Department of Electrical Engineering The importance of blood to humans cannot be understated. Its important functions include transporting oxygen and nutrients around the body, preventing blood loss, fighting infection, carrying antibodies to fight infection, delivering waste products to the kidneys and liver to be removed from the body, and […]
New Capabilities in Large-scale Models in Computational Biology
Casey Abbott and Dr. John Hedengren, Department of Chemical Engineering Advances in biomedical research have lead to an increase of experimental data to be interpreted in the context of reaction pathways, molecular transport, and population dynamics. Kinetic modeling is one way employed to interpret this data and is used in the pharmaceutical industry in developing […]
The TiLAR Project: Analyzing Unregulated and Non- Engagement Behaviors During Intervention in Children with Low Functioning Autism
Tayler Whitmer and Dr. Bonnie Brinton, Department of Communication Disorders The Therapist in the Loop: Assistive Robotics (TiLAR) project is a broad-based research study that seeks to improve joint attention in children with low-functioning autism by using a humanoid robot in concert with traditional intervention. The goal of this project was to monitor the frequency […]
Mentored Research in Geochemistry of Ancient Maya and Fremont Archaeological Sites
Dr. Richard Terry, Department of Plant & Wildlife Sciences Many of the activities of the ancient Maya did not leave artifactual or architectural remains for us to study, since many activities involved organic materials that were biodegraded over time. Furthermore, the warm and humid climate accelerated the decomposition of most organic materials (Dahlin et al., […]
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Long-Term Memory
Dr. Brock Kirwan, Department of Psychology Memory is an essential cognitive ability. It allows us to use past events to guide future actions. Research in my laboratory focuses on determining the mechanics of how the brain remembers what it does. We are interested in determining what will be remembered and what will be forgotten. Specifically, […]
Transcriptional Activity of the Novel Nuclear Protein nBmp-2
Dr. Laura Bridgewater, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Biology The goal of this project was to follow up on preliminary data suggesting that nBmp2 directly activated transcription. A few months of follow-up experiments, however, showed that the original transcription data was not reproducible. At that point we turned our attention to two different questions about […]