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VOLUME 11
Fall 2019


 Cover Art by Ashley Hayden '19

InNervate VR: Can Virtual Reality Teach Anatomy?

By Amber May Ackley and Karla I. Chang Gonzalez 
InNervate VR is a virtual reality application that seeks to improve anatomy education by teaching innervation, a concept that traditionally is challenging for students.
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The Human Intestine in a Test Tube

By Rachel Elizabeth Stading
Creating a controllable in a vitro model that mimics the human intestine in a test tube is essential for understanding the human body.
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Are Wild Sea Turtles Feeding During Nesting?

By Nicole Guentzel
Assessing less-invasive methods to study the intersection of nutrition and reproduction of wild olive ridleys in Ostional, Costa Rica.
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Influential Factors of Undergraduate Migration

By Sara Adnan AlBanna
Understanding the influences on the decision of migration from and towards the Arabic Gulf  for undergraduate studies amongst high school graduates.
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Designing Better Glucose Sensors for Diabetes Patients

By Christopher Wright
How a patient with diabetes developed new fabrication techniques that could lead to huge advances in glucose sensors
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Thinking in Three Dimensions: Investigating Cell Mechanotransduction in 3D-Printed Scaffolds

By Darby Jane Ballard and Erica Michelle Huebner
Understanding the effects of mechanical stimuli on cell behavior may be the key to engineering tissues.
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Utilization of Violence and Human Sacrifice Among the Moche

By Richard Dally
Behold! The Moche of Pre-Columbian Peru and their sanguineous practice of human sacrifice.
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Shining Light on Tuberculosis

By Camella J. Carlson
Modeling the lung fo an innovative TB detection method.
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Second Life as a Synchronous E-Learning Tool

By Taylor Bell
As institutions continue to push toward more online courses, it is imperative that the quality of education be maintained even as the delivery method changes, and one way to accomplish that is through the use of interactive worlds like Second Life.
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Binomial Rhapsody: Turning Math into Music

By Ritika Bhattacharjee
How composing music from continuous mathematical functions could change the way we perceive human-algorithmic interaction and actually make us more creative.
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Charlotte's Web: Words, Weaving, and Womanhood

By Rebecca Baumgarten
Charlotte is a unique literary spider who saves Wilbur through feminine channels of power: spinning and language.
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Mixed Reality: The VR Experience Visualized for Screens

By John Donaldson
Using a virtual camera, we can display VR content for screens in a more visually appealing and informative way.
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