Samuel Swainhart and Dr. Steve Wood, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry Quinoa is a grain grown mainly by Natives in diverse areas throughout Latin America that is considered by many nutritional scientists as possibly the most nourishing grain available. Its contents include high levels of protein, an exceptional composition of amino acids, and many carbohydrates. […]
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Investigation of the Effects of Intraosseous Pressure Rise in the Formation of Spinal Burst Fractures: A Biphasic Material Approach
Spencer Shore and Dr. Anton Bowden Introduction Burst fractures are high-speed spine injuries caused by rapid axial compression of the vertebrae. The traditional explanation for the burst fracture mechanism points to an intraosseous pressure rise due to the entrance of the intervertebral disc through a fractured endplate. Recent experiments [1], however, indicate an actual decrease […]
INVESTIGATION OF THREE METHODS OF VARIABLE SELECTION: LINEAR MODEL SELECTION, CART AND TREED REGRESSION
Todd R. Nelson and Dr. Scott Grimshaw, Statistics My project for the Research and Creative Activities Scholarship Award looks at the effectiveness and accuracy of a popular new method of variable selection. The method under investigation uses tree-based models to select important variables and then uses classical least squares estimation to fit a regression model […]
INVESTIGATION OF THE PYRULARIA THIONIN-EGF MITOTOXIN ON CELL SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION
Andrew B. Adams and Dr. Steven G. Wood, Chemistry and Biochemistry Recently more emphasis has been placed on developing anti-cancer agents with greater specificity and fewer side effects. Immunotoxins and their relatives, mitotoxins, have arisen as possible answers. Mitotoxins are composed of mitogens coupled to plant or bacterial toxins. The mitotoxin under investigation is the […]
“Vanth and Child”: An Investigation of the Mislabeled Etruscan Urn Mother and Child
Cassandra Scheerer and Dr. Mark Johnson, Visual Arts & Communication Since its discovery in Chianciano, Etruria, the identification of the figures in the Etruscan cinerary urn Mother and Child (Fig.1) as a mourning mother holding her deceased child has gone uncontested. Reasons for this include the fact that the inscriptions do not identify the figures […]
Genetic Investigation of the Pathology of Ustilago bullata
Erin Ladle and Dr. Jeff Maughan, Plant and Wildlife Sciences Main Text Bromus tectorum L., commonly known as cheatgrass, is an invasive annual grass species that dominates millions of hectares of land in the Great Basin area, in the western United States.1 The widespread invasion of cheatgrass has increased fire incidence in some areas of […]
An Artistic Investigation of Coming of Age: Inspired by Jugendweihe
Alyssa Grant and Professor Daniel Barney, Department of Visual Arts I am profoundly grateful for the opportunities opened to me through the funding of this ORCA grant. With my grant I was able to travel to Germany to gather source material and experience relevant to my artistic investigation of personal identity and notions of coming of age. […]
Investigation and Development of OF Pyrometer Coating
Weston Baxter and Dr. Dale Tree, Department of Mechanical Engineering Goal/Purpose of the Project This project aimed to produce and test an opaque surface on an optical fiber tip that will survive temperatures up to 3000 K. The optical fiber is to be used to measure flame temperature in oxy-coal and other combustion processes. Importance […]
Understanding the Causes and Consequences of the Impostor Phenomenon
Jeffrey Bednar, Management The MEG grant I was awarded was used to fund the work of several undergraduate and graduate students as we sought to present academic research and generate academic research articles for publication in various journals. This included research we have been conducting related to the “Impostor Syndrome”, where some high-achieving individuals fail […]
Multimodal Neuroimaging of Insomnia During Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep (MNI_NREM)
Daniel Kay Application Abstract The impact of insomnia on brain regions/networks during sleep may represent mechanisms through which insomnia contributes to the risk for mood disorders. As a first step toward understanding the risk relationship linking insomnia to mood disorders, this study will utilize functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with multimodal techniques to investigate alterations […]
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