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Research Update: Addressing the Struggles & Surprises

Project Title: Algorithmic Law Enforcement: Exploring the Human and Civil Rights Implications of Predictive Policing Reflecting on my first three weeks dedicated to my research project exploring the human and civil rights implications of data-driven and predictive policing, I am feeling satisfied with my project, and grateful for all I have learned through this process.Continue reading “Research Update: Addressing the Struggles & Surprises”

Research with a Purpose: The Apalachicola Oyster Fishery

Hello! This month I continued to work with my mentor to develop and implement a method for acidifying sediment samples. This process will allow me to remove inorganic carbon, specifically carbonates, and keep the organic carbon compounds for isotopic analysis. These isotopic ratios that I discussed in my last blog post will allow us toContinue reading “Research with a Purpose: The Apalachicola Oyster Fishery”

Navigating Challenges in My Research

The goal of my summer research seems fairly straightforward – build an application that takes in the DNA sequencing data of cancer cells and infer their evolutionary history. However, as I began to delve deeper into my project, I have encountered several challenges. This is my first time undertaking a computational project at this scale.Continue reading “Navigating Challenges in My Research”

Chemical Gardens and Measuring Bubbles

My experience with my research so far in May has been very progressive. When I first started after my little summer break, only a week, I got straight into work, however, I didn’t know just what I was doing yet. After coming back my research mentor and I discussed that I would be continuing anotherContinue reading “Chemical Gardens and Measuring Bubbles”

Begrudgingly Introspective

“My initial proposal expressed a special kind of vitriol for anyone who would dare interrogate the motivations of someone in a D/s relationship. Rather, a dynamic where one partner exerts an agreed upon amount of control over the other. My first attempts to explain such a relationship on paper were quickly scrapped, leading to theContinue reading “Begrudgingly Introspective”

Incremental Improvement in Experimental Design

During May, I have been primarily working on fixing some of the issues that we previously encountered with our current way of developing chips. As we continue to work on the development of 3-D printed chips, the improvement of our current photolithography-based devices has become a priority. The current issues we have encountered are mainlyContinue reading “Incremental Improvement in Experimental Design”

Uncovering the Mysteries of Scorpion Venom

Hello again, this is a quick update on everything that’s been going on with my project this last month, along with some potential issues that may be popping up soon. First and foremost, I dissected two male and two female scorpions for tissues to use for genome sequencing. While performing these dissections, I also preservedContinue reading “Uncovering the Mysteries of Scorpion Venom”

Shifting Gears: Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and Fission Analysis

Hello, Reader! It’s me, Ana P., here to update you on how my IDEA Grant project has been going so far. So, I wasn’t scheduled to start working on the fission analysis project I discussed in my first blog post until mid-June, but my advisor and I have encountered a hurdle that has resulted inContinue reading “Shifting Gears: Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and Fission Analysis”

Extracting Cellulose: It’s All in the Details

I have split up my project into three portions: extraction of cellulose nanofibers (CNFs)from the algae, studying the nanofibers under different observation methods, and finally applying these nanofibers to the pervious concrete. After I more deeply explored the process of extracting these cellulose nanofibers with faculty, I realized that there is no prior research specificallyContinue reading “Extracting Cellulose: It’s All in the Details”