Faces are an important stimulus for many experiments in psychology, and new technologies let us create artificial faces that are highly realistic. We have modified StyleGAN—a deep learning algorithm that creates face pictures, so that it will produce a smooth “circle” of computer-generated faces. These are randomly generated from a 512-dimension “face space,” allowing for an incredible diversity of face types. Scalable parameters allow precise control over how smoothly the faces change around the circle.    

The construction industry has some of the highest incident and fatality rates among all industries and makes up almost 5% of the American workforce and a similar figure in other countries. This means around 5% of the world's working population is at risk and current safety training methods have not shown signs of improving the incident and fatality rates. Virtual and augmented reality training is a new, immersive way to train and assess at-risk workers.

I received an Erickson Grant for summer 2019 to perform archival research for my thesis. My poster will explain my research and how my experiences in the archive can serve as a model for exploratory undergraduate research. This topic is important because undergraduates do not often get to do independent exploratory research and my experiences in the archives can serve as an example of the benefits and possibilities of such undergraduate research.

IST 230 offers content knowledge to integer related concepts.  There is a feeling of disconnect from Discrete Mathematics’ relevance to the overall understanding of IST. Our research question poses the opposite.  An understanding of Discrete Mathematics is integral, and the pedagogy of this course must find ways to strongly link the content knowledge of discrete mathematics to active learning beyond the traditional mathematics.  That link is that relationship to all concepts of Computer technology.

In academic environments, new technology and digital methods govern curricula to keep students on the cutting edge, while pre-digital, or physical, design methods are often forgotten. However, the combination of digital and physical daylighting design methods can result in more innovative and integrated building solutions. This student engagement experience uses a Heliodon daylighting apparatus to allow students to translate digital models into a scaled physical models to evaluate daylighting performance in the built environment.

The objective is to identify how farmers from non-farming backgrounds became farmers, including insight on their backgrounds, challenges endured, successes, future plans and advice to curious students. I'll expand on topics such as skills, education, internships, and other experiences farmers had. Findings will help students feel comfortable and motivated to explore farming careers with knowledge about how people from non-farming backgrounds became farmers.

Over the summer of 2018, I conducted archival research using funds from the Erickson Discovery Grant for my honors thesis in English. My research led me to three archival libraries--Yale's Beinecke Library, The Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin, and Harvard's Houghton Library--where I examined letters and manuscripts of the poet William Carlos Williams. My findings became the basis for my thesis and allowed me to ground my ideas in solid evidence.

Throughout the semester I have been working alongside Camilo Bali as we are both working with Dr. Mejia. There have been a few challenges in terms of just understanding the program and having access to it but we are now on track and are moving in the right direction. I will be using data from the GIS and imputing into HAZUS system to understand and predict flooding patterns from the past and present. 

This project spent time on solving the structure of proteins around the RNA of yeast RNase P, which regulates the maturation of tRNA. 7 out of 9 proteins were solved by using Cryo-EM, and researchers are working on the last two proteins. After all nine protein structure is solved, they will work on reassembling the protein by adding each protein to the RNA backbone and visualize the structural and functional changes by Cryo-EM.

This study investigated how social responsibility is managed between for-profit and nonprofit organizations. It used key informant interviews to seek an answer for this question, which will be subsequently coded and analyzed for common themes. The interviews are still underway, but preliminary findings indicate that within the same industry social responsibility includes similar practices, but for-profits tend to incorporate donations more than nonprofits and nonprofits organize work towards building a community more than for-profits.