HOW DO AXOLOTLS LEARN?
By: Ellie O.

Axolotls are amphibians native to Mexico. They are a subspecies of salamander, differencing in their neoteny, meaning they retain juvenile characteristics. While they are common laboratory...

GROWING SEMICONDUCTORS USING MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY
By: Giancarlo S.

Photoluminescence measurements are crucial to the study and characterization of thinfilm semiconductor material systems. As semiconductor devices that operate in the near and...

IDENTIFYING CANCER USING CONE SNAIL VENOM
By: Joseph B.

Cancer is one of the most prevalent diseases known to mankind, and there is still not ac!re available that can completely remove it from a person"s body. Nevertheless...

TREATING ASTHMA
By: Nadia G.

Asthma is a complex and prevalent allergic disease that lacks treatments addressing its root causes. As a disease caused in part be genetic factors such as genetic mutations...

BMI AND COGNITION IN THE ELDERLY
By: Cecilia M.

It is important to obtain a better understanding of the factors that lead to cognitive decline so that the increasing rate at which humans are now experiencing these detrimental...

BUILDING SOLAR CELLS WITH GRAPHENE AND PTHALOCYANINE
By: Ben B.

Graphene oxide is a novel substance that has the potential toupturn electrical storage and renewable energy due to its in-credible energy density and versatility...

NAUTILUS
By: Ned E. 

​The chambered Nautilus (as pictured above) is a deep-water mollusk. It migrates at night to scavenge and find food along coral reefs. This involves navigating sea planes and rising and falling...

PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME IN MICE
By: Gabi H.

Prader-WIlli syndrome is a complex genetic disorder caused by the lack of expression in genes in chromosome 15 that causes obesity, intellectual disability, and shortness in height...

THERAPY FOR TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
By: Will S.

Traumatic brain injury is an impact of the brain that accounts for 1.7 million cases each year. Clinical therapy for traumatic brain injury is currently limited to skull fracture repair and...

NUCLEI OF DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM CELLS
By: Ella D.

Dictyostelium discoideum (D. discoideum) cells are very similar to mammalian cells in their protein sequences, which allows them to mimic human cells in experiments. Dicty and mammalian...