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Spontaneous Eye Blink Correlates of Attentional Control for Food Cues
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Read moreTranscriptional regulation of pluripotency in embryonic stem cells
How is stem cell-specific transcriptional regulation encoded into the genome?
Read moreNature Speak: A Program for Connecting Kids to Place, Nature, and Each Other
How can we use science to empower children to create spaces that help them connect to nature?
Read moreGroup-based Emotions as Mechanisms of Competitive Victimhood
Does competitive victimhood encourage intergroup aggression via changes in intergroup emotions?
Read moreExploring the Event-Related Potential, Behavioral, and Cognitive Correlates of Food Cue Processing, Craving, and Food Consumption in Healthy Young Adults
What are the neural correlates of food cue processing in healthy, young adults?
Read moreMotivating Walking through Social Referencing and Data Visualization with Activity Trackers
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Read moreCapture-the-Flag Challenges that Enhance Cybersecurity Analysis Skills
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Read moreMachine Learning and Visual Analytics for Environmental Science
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Read moreHitting Times for Generalized Ehrenfest Urn Models
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Read moreOrganophosphate degradation with molybdenum oxo complexes
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Read moreDevelopment of an immobilized ruthenium(II) chloride catalyst
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Read moreDesigning a self-healing stent
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Read moreElectrochemical Growth of Manganese Oxide Supercapacitors
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Read moreInvestigating the role of thrombospondin in synaptogenesis and locomotion in Drosophila
What is the role thrombospondin in synaptogenesis at the neuromuscular junction of Drosophila larvae, and what consequences does decreasing thrombospondin at the neuromuscular junction have on locomotion?
Read moreEffects of nicotine on Drosophila development: genes, neurotransmitters and toxicology
What are the effects of developmental nicotine exposure?
Read moreMaintenance of diversity in a temperate old-growth forest
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Read moreArachnid biogeography in the Caribbean
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Read moreStrings in compactified gauge theories
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Read moreThe evolution of venom-expressed gene families in Synspermiata spiders
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Read moreMathematics of relativistic point particles
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Read moreInvestigations of the Acoustics of the Mandolin
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Read morePsychophysiological Responses to Racial Passing Behavior
How are psychophysiological responses to racial passing behavior shaped by the direction of passing (i.e., within the racial hierarchy)?
Read moreBoundary Value Problems via Finite Difference Approximations
Can one prove existence and uniqueness of solutions to boundary value problems using elementary methods?
Read moreDiscovering how cell-type specific compartments are constructed
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Read moreGeometric Flows of Polygons
We study polygon flows, in which the vertices of a polygon move according to a differential equation.
Read moreThe evolution of venom-expressed gene families in Haplogyne spiders
Little is known about the evolutionary mechanisms that led to the origin of these venom toxins, which are of significant medical importance.
Read moreShaping and ‘Earthquake Culture’ Through Informal Learning
Bryan Sebok is an Associate Professor and Department Chair of Rhetoric and Media Studies. His research interests include innovation in the film and ...
Read moreEffects of Bilingualism on Executive Function
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Read moreResprouting allows competitive advantage in Redwood-Tanoak forests of Central Coast of California
Sofia Koutzoukis, under the mentorship of Margaret Metz, studies post-fire landscapes in Big Sur, California and explores the advantages for Redwoods and Tanoaks to either resprout or germinate from seed.
Read moreSeedling dynamics and the maintenance of diversity in an Amazonian rainforest
Margaret Metz and her students participated in the annual seedling dynamics census in Yasuní National Park, an Amazonian forest in Ecuador to investigate how seedling dynamics play a role in maintaining tropical forest diversity.
Read moreCloud classification from whole sky images
Jessica is an assistant professor of Environmental Studies at Lewis & Clark College. She did her dissertation work examining the energetics and kinematics of ...
Read moreDevelopment of Synthetic Teaching Labs for Crystallographic Analysis
We are the first college in the Pacific Northwest to develop chemistry teaching labs that use single crystal X-ray crystallography as a new tool for characterizing molecular structure.
Read moreThe Role of Group Perception in Intergroup Apology
Our upcoming project will use experimental procedures with online surveys to explore the role of group perception in promoting effective intergroup apologies.
Read moreNeurocognitive Investigations of Appetitive Cue Processing in Adults and Young Children
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Read moreEffects of long-term nicotine exposure: mechanisms and behavioral consequences
During summer, students in my lab worked on 3 projects: 1) experiments to determine if developmental nicotine exposure causes changes in specific cell populations in the brain; 2) experiments to determine if developmental nicotine exposure causes changes to perception of smells; and 3) experiments to identify genes that are involved in nicotine's effects.
Read moreUnderstanding Laser Noise in an Atomic Vapor for Magnetometry
This experimental optics project seeks to develop a novel magnetometer using an interaction between light and matter that is highly sensitive to magnetic fields, laser noise derived from quantum interference in an atomic vapor.
Read moreMechanisms of protein aggregation in Parkinson’s disease using zebrafish
Our lab studies the mechanisms that regulate neuron development as well as disease. Parkinson's Disease involves the abnormal aggregation of a protein called alpha-synuclein. In collaboration with Dr. Vivek Unni’s lab at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), we have established a zebrafish model for studying alpha-synuclein function in the living brain. Because zebrafish are transparent during development, we are able to visualize a fluorescence-tagged form of alpha-synuclein in vivo using confocal microscopy.
Read moreAn Application of Markov chain: Card shuffling and measuring the randomness of a deck
We investigate the card shuffling problem from a simulation-based approach. We first create a randomness measure for gauging how well-shuffled a deck is. Several hundred thousand random decks are generated to simulate the distribution of the randomness measures of well-shuffled decks. Then we examine the number of shuffles a certain shuffling scheme would take to reach the mean of this simulated distribution.
Read moreGroup-Based Emotions as Antecedents and Consequences of Competitive Victimhood
One of the projects in the ESIP lab investigates the emotions involved in competitive victimhood, a phenomenon in which two groups in conflict compete over who has suffered more.
Read moreUnderstanding SNARE protein mediation of neuromodulator release from dense-core vesicles
The Lochner lab seeks to understand the biochemical underpinnings of long-term memory formation in a region of the brain called the hippocampus.
Read moreTargeting and Trafficking of Neuromodulatory Proteins in Hippocampal Neurons
We study molecular processes underlying memory formation, particularly targeting and trafficking of neuromodulatory proteins to synapses.
Read moreInvestigating Forest Recovery in River View Natural Area After Removal of Invasive Plant Species
In fall 2011, the city of Portland purchased 146 acres of forest adjacent to the Lewis & Clark College campus, creating the River View Natural Area (RVNA). At that time, RVNA was heavily invaded by non-native plants. The city removed these species by cutting/herbicide. This action created an opportunity to investigate forest recovery after invasive removal. Will native species return without further management? Or will removal of these species lead to new invasions by non-native plants?
Read moreParallel computing with higher-level languages and compelling examples
Jens Mache was born in Karlsruhe, Germany. As an undergraduate student, he studied computer science at the University of Karlsruhe (Vordiplom in 1992). After ...
Read moreWhen Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect: Studying Preschooler’s Creative Problem Solving in a Museum Setting.
Dr. Nilsen holds a BA in Psychology from Graceland University and an MA and PhD in Psychology from the University of Michigan. He received a ...
Read moreEvent-related Potential Correlates of Response Inhibition to Alcohol Cues Among College-Aged Binge Drinkers
Todd D. Watson is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department and is also a faculty member in the new, interdisciplinary Neuroscience program at ...
Read moreMapping Neuronal Circuitry using Brainbow zebrafish
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Read moreOrego: Artificial Intelligence and the Game of Go
Go (Weiqi), the oldest strategy game in the world, was invented in China thousands of years ago. Its rules are simpler than those of Chess, but its strategies more subtle and profound. Top human Go players, unlike Chess players, can still easily defeat the most powerful computers. The space of possible board configurations is unfathomably vast, many orders of magnitude larger than the number of electrons in the universe. We suspect that human Go strength depends on the ability to decompose the game into local subproblems that are largely, but not quite, independent.
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