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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 Does eye blink rate predict responses to high-calorie food images and real-world eating behaviors? How is stem cell-specific transcriptional regulation encoded into the genome? How can we use science to empower children to create spaces that help them connect to nature? Does competitive victimhood encourage intergroup aggression via changes in intergroup emotions? What are the neural correlates of food cue processing in healthy, young adults? Motivating Walking through Social Referencing and Data Visualization with Activity Trackers Capture-the-Flag Challenges that Enhance Cybersecurity Analysis Skills Machine Learning and Visual Analytics for Environmental Science Hitting Times for Generalized Ehrenfest Urn Models Organophosphate degradation with molybdenum oxo complexes Development of an immobilized ruthenium(II) chloride catalyst Designing a self-healing stent Electrochemical Growth of Manganese Oxide Supercapacitors 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? What are the effects of developmental nicotine exposure? What conditions are favorable for seedling survival and growth? Arachnid biogeography in the Caribbean Strings in compactified gauge theories The evolution of venom-expressed gene families in Synspermiata spiders Mathematics of relativistic point particles Investigations of the Acoustics of the Mandolin How are psychophysiological responses to racial passing behavior shaped by the direction of passing (i.e., within the racial hierarchy)? Can one prove existence and uniqueness of solutions to boundary value problems using elementary methods? How do evolutionarily conserved genes function in the formation of cell-type specific organelles in C. elegans? How can we continuously transform polygons in order to improve their isoperimetric ratio? What is the evolutionary history of gene families found in the venom of Haplogyne spiders? What communication strategies are MOST effective for motivating preparatory action related to the Cascadia earthquake across diverse audiences? Do bilingual college students have an advantage over their monolingual peers on some executive function tasks? In forests of California’s Central Coast, how does resprouting confer competitive advantages for tanoaks and redwoods after fire? Do seedling strategies have tradeoffs for species performance? Does canopy cover affect seedling dynamics? What climatically meaningful information about clouds can a computer find in a sky image? What molecular synthetic targets are amenable for X-ray crystallography in an undergraduate teaching lab? How does a group’s perceived entitativity affect the reception of an apology? Do specific food/beverage cravings and/or media exposure affect cognitive control over environmental food-cues? What are the mechanisms for the effects of long-term 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 many shuffles are needed to randomize a deck of 52 cards? Which collective emotions shape competitive victimhood claims? How are long term memories encoded in the hippocampus? How do nerve cells maintain synapses with an adequate supply of proteins that facilitate memory formation? 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? Will giving children guided practice with a toy help or hinder creative play? We also explore the impact of naming creations on creativity. 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?