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

Exploratory Text Analysis on the Congressional Response to the Withdrawal from Afghanistan

Faculty Sponsor: Logan Dancey Abstract: In this project, we employ topic modeling and word count differences to examine congressional reaction to the end of the war in Afghanistan through an analysis of House and Senate committee hearings pre- and post-withdrawal. The heightened media attention to the withdrawal provides us with an opportunity to study how … 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