VTA Neuron Dopaminergic Circuitry Change Following Acute and Chronic Alcohol Exposure

Faculty Sponsor: Laverne Melón Tina Han Tina Han is a rising senior from China majoring in Neuroscience and Philosophy. Her research interest circles around emotion, memory, and narration. She aims to break the boundary between subjects, using computational and traditional techniques to explore the emotional circuits in human brain. Outside of classroom, she does acting, … Read more

Predictors of Critical Motivation Amongst Asian Immigrant Adolescents

Faculty Sponsor: Professor Andrea Negrete Abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine predictors of critical motivation among Asian immigrant-origin adolescents. Previous research suggests that immigration policies directly impact immigrant-origin youth in many aspects of their lives such as health and education. However, this research expands on previous findings to examine how restrictive immigration … Read more

Using Unreal Engine to Find the Orientations of 3D Objects

Faculty Sponsor: Greg Voth Abstract: In a fluid mechanics lab, it is often the case that a particle’s movement through fluid must be studied in minute detail. Our lab records videos of 3D-printed particles moving in a high-volume tank of water with four high-speed cameras, and we aim to examine their motion by determining the … Read more

Why us? Factors Influencing Membership in Color Naming Clusters

Faculty Sponsor: Maryam Gooyabadi Abstract: Color is a universal concept existing in every language. While each language has its own unique characteristics, there has been found a shared pattern existing across different language groups. Studying the similarities and differences in color naming between languages could give us a clear view of some underlying shared patterns … Read more

Follow the Diagonals: Finding String Matches through Matrix Operations

Faculty Sponsor: Professor Pavel Oleinikov Abstract: Pairwise comparisons produce a diagonal line of matches and are originally used in homology. This method is extended to text similarity detections in programming languages as well as large collections of texts. The tokenization of texts allows dynamic programming such as Global Alignment to detect similar texts while running … Read more