Research Day Archive

Project: Using machine learning tools to detect communities in Peroxiredoxin 3-mer graphs Mentor: William Turkett, Computer Science

Project: Sports and literacy: An analysis of scholarship since Title IX Mentor: Alan Brown, Education

Project: Metformin Derivatives Mentor: S. Bruce King, Chemistry

Project: Correlation Between %VO2 max and Heart Rate in Heart Failure Patients Mentor: Peter Brubaker, Health and Exercise Science

Project: WE RISE: Effect of bisphosphonate use on surgical weight loss associated bone loss in older adults with morbid obesity Mentors: Kristen Beavers, Health and Exercise Science and Ashley Weaver, Biomedical Engineering

Project: Protein Crystallization of Mycoplasma penetrans MetRS Mentor: Rebecca Alexander, Chemistry

Project: High temperature-induced reactive oxygen species (ROS) and flavonoids in Arabidopsis thaliana shoots Mentor: Gloria Muday, Biology

Project: Synthesis of Platinum (IV)-Acridine Anticancer Prodrugs Mentor: Ulrich Bierbach, Chemistry

Project: The role of ethylene receptor ETR 1 in regulation in Arabidopsis thaliana Mentor: Gloria Muday, Biology

Project: Study on the products of fundamental slides and compatible sequences Mentor: Sarah Mason, Mathematics

Project: The Development of Determinantal Formulae for the Symmetric Polynomials Mentor: Ed Allen, Mathematics and Statistics

Project: Comparing and Contrasting Different Methods for Differential Privacy Mentor: Nicole Dalzell, Mathematics and Statistics

Project: Coping in Caregivers of Pediatric Cancer Patients Mentor: Christian Waugh, Psychology

Project: Predicting Alzheimer’s Disease Progression Using Machine Learning Mentor: Jason Grayson, WFU School of Medicine

Project: Image restoration with machine learning to improve measurements of chromatin motions in live cells Mentors: Keith Bonin, Physics and Metin Nafi Gurcan, Biomedical Informatics

Project: Effects of Malaria on Gut Epithelia and Bacterial Translocation in the Development of Malarial Anemia Mentor: Regina Cordy, Biology

Project: CLRC Complex Affects the Stability of Lysine Demethylases Lsd1 and Lsd2 in Schizosaccharomyces pombe Mentor: Ke Zhang, Biology

Project: Does Centrosome Amplification Occur in All Stages of the Cell Cycle? Mentor: Heather Brown-Harding, Biology

Project: Investigating factors that promote international students’ global competency and adjustment to U.S. high schools Mentor: Nelson Brunsting, Education

Project: Can Plants Control Droughts? Mentor: Lauren Lowman, Engineering