View by: Funding Andrew W. Mellon Foundation CAS Dean's Office CELS Center for Tropical Forest Science at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Collaborative Faculty-Student Research Grants Fischer Family Foundation Howard Hughes Medical Institute James F. & Marion L. Miller Foundation John S. Rogers Science Program M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust National Institutes of Health National Science Foundation Research Corporation for Science Advancement W. M. Keck Foundation Watzek Library Digital Initiatives Departments Art BCMB Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Biology Chemistry Classics Computer Science Economics English Environmental Studies Foreign Languages & Literatures Gender Studies Geology Hispanic Studies History International Affairs Latin American Studies Mathematical Sciences Music Neuroscience Philosophy Physics Political Economy Political Science Psychology Religious Studies Rhetoric & Media Studies Sociology/Anthropology Theatre Research Period Fall 2016 Summer 2012 Summer 2013 Summer 2014 Summer 2015 Summer 2016 Summer 2017 Summer 2018 Summer 2019 TagsFaculty What are the effects of developmental nicotine exposure? How can we use laser noise derived from atomic coherence to determine an unknown magnetic field? How does protein aggregation spread throughout the nervous system in a zebrafish model of Parkinson's disease? How are long term memories encoded in the hippocampus? Are there rational grounds for preferring the philosophy of language of Hegel or Kashmiri Shaivism? How do nerve cells maintain synapses with an adequate supply of proteins that facilitate memory formation? What are the distinctions in human sex trafficking patterns between the developed and developing world? How can states best enforce campaign finance law? How can geometry be used to model sensory hair cells? How did Chile and Argentina imagine their national identities during the 2010 Bicentennial celebrations? How does consideration of Austria-Hungary and the Balkans change our understandings of World War I? How does a forest's plant community respond after invasive plant species have been removed? What programming language is most conducive to teaching parallel computing concepts at the undergraduate level? What can the “natural” wine movement teach us about national identity, contemporary food culture, and globalization? How did Diderot’s Encyclopédie “tree of knowledge” impact the making and the meaning of knowledge in the Enlightenment? How do cells make ribosomes? What sorts of logical or nomological connections can be found between the appetites and emotions in the moral psychology presented in Plato's early and middle dialogues? What role does a coating of titanium dioxide play in improving the capacitance of electrochemically deposited manganese oxide thin film? Have residents of the Northwest practiced nature religion? If so, how do we track it and study it? What can we learn about Charles Erskine Wood from primary source documents? How does the surface chemistry of gold nanoparticles change when they are transferred into natural environments? Will giving children guided practice with a toy help or hinder creative play? We also explore the impact of naming creations on creativity. What is the economic and cultural significance of the mobile food movement? Do college-age adults who binge drink have different brain responses to alcohol images? How do neural circuits form in the developing brain? How can we devise an artificially intelligent program to defeat top human players at the classical Asian game of Go?