• 10x10 Array of Stimulating Electrode

      Edward O'Brien; Kevin Barnett; Hodge Jenkins; Kimberly Gessner; Joshua Dupaty; Rachel Burns
      A senior design project focused on the development of a wearable electrode array to be used as a sensory substitution device.
    • 3-D Printed Custom Standard Wrist Brace

      Philip McCreanor; Courtney Spake; Ewan Bentley
      The project is to create a custom standard wrist brace. This will be done by scanning the arm, fitting a digital model of the brace to the arm, and printing the brace.
    • 3D Printed Extra Hepatic Bile Duct Model for in vitro Testing

      Joanna Thomas; Leia Troop; Nicholas Faist; Robyn Guru
      An investigation of designing and using 3D printed bile ducts as a model for in vitro testing biliary stents.
    • 4 inch Hydraulic Turbine Runner Assembly

      Loren Sumner; Stephen Hill; Mary Kathryn Savage; Emily Davis; Chanah Bremar
      Improve power producing capabilities of a small run-of-river hydro turbine system intended for use in rural communities.
    • A Woman's Place is in the (White) House

      Kevin Cummings; Camyn Bierria; Miranda Jackson; Hinal Patel
      Our study provides a gateway into assessing how this same dynamic plays into the current presidential primaries, specifically the ways in which Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar are portrayed by various media sources.
    • Adaptive Toy Project

      Philip McCreanor; Alexandra Dunn; Brian Sledjeski
      The results of a research project involving the modification of electric toys so they can be more easily operated.
    • An Autopsy on Mortality

      David Davis; Sam Minton
      I focus on historical and literary depictions of death in WWI in the context of modernism. I argue that constant interaction between the living and the dead led to the deconstruction of the binary of life and death in literary modernism.
    • Analysis of a deletion library screen of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae using Gene Ontology, protein-protein interaction, and metabolic pathway data

      Wiles, Amy; Graham, Joseph; Simmons, Sean; Gazan, Ethan; Cobb, David (2021)
      Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker's yeast) is a commonly used eukaryotic model organism particularly suited to genomic and metabolic study. We hope to identify genes novel to sulfur and nitrogen metabolism. In previous experiments from this lab, a gene deletion library of 5,132 yeast strains was screened to identify genes necessary for growth in the absence of sulfur or nitrogen. If a gene were deleted and no growth were observed, this gene was determined to be important for allowing proliferation in the nutrient-limited environments and flagged as a hit. In this project, a one way ANOVA test was performed on the screen using R using the BiocManager library and limma package. The results of the ANOVA test were joined in MySQL with Gene Ontology (FuncAssociate), protein-protein interaction (InterPro), and metabolic/signaling pathway (KEGG) data obtained from Ensembl. Here we use analysis of these three types of data to distinguish common themes among the genes identified as hits.
    • Antibacterial Performance of Electrically Activated Conductive Water Filter Papers

      Dorina Mihut; Arash Afshar; Laura Lackey; Stephen Hill; Gregory Baker; Nicholas Dimitri Cordista; Darren Brantley Pickren
      Coating store-bought filter paper with copper to give the filter paper antibacterial copper.
    • Anticholinergic Activity of "Bath Salt" Synthetic Cathinone Drugs of Abuse

      Clinton Canal; Rachel Lukavsky; Yiming Chen
      We conducted pharmacological, discovery-based research focused on a class of psychoactive drugs of abuse called synthetic cathinones, colloquially known as “bath salts.” This summer allowed me to learn new research techniques that are currently being used in drug discovery and development.
    • Applied Electromyography in Gait Analysis

      Bich Nguyen; Ha Van Vo; Trung Le; Pooja Vikraman
      A project proposal in researching the uses of electromyography (EMG) in analyzing gait.
    • Automated Pill Dispenser to Improve Medication Adherence

      Philip McCreanor; Blake Chester
      This pill dispenser can be economically produced, use an LCD to display information, record and save data, and dispense doses of medication at the push of a button.
    • BEAR Day 2020

      Tennille Shuster; Lydreyah Simmons
      Student Program Design
    • BEAR Day 2020

      Tennille Shuster; Alexandra Frink
      Student Program Design
    • BEAR Day 2020

      Tennille Shuster; Lydreyah Simmons
      Student Program Design
    • BEAR Day 2020

      Tennille Shuster; Alexandra Frink
      Student Program Design
    • BEAR Day 2020

      Tennille Shuster; Emily Stradling
      Student Program Design
    • BEAR Day 2020

      Tennille Shuster; Caitlynne Hicks Anderson
      Student Program Design
    • BEAR Day 2020

      Tennille Shuster; Alexandra Frink
      Student Program Design
    • BEAR Day 2020

      Tennille Shuster; Lydreyah Simmons
      Student Program Design