This research isolates correlates of gender-based bias against female offenders and shows the significance that gender plays in sentencing female sexual perpetrators. Survey data, in addition to vignettes, include stigma scales adapted from Kruis and Choi (2020) and the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale from Payne et al. (1999). The scales were adapted to capture individual bias, rape myth beliefs, and gender-based stereotypes that influence the acceptance of sex offenders, specifically those with underage victims.

Metal organic framework materials (MOFs) are coordination polymers that vary in shape and size. With increasing availability, it is speculated MOFs can be synthesized capable of absorbing biomedically active substances, such as cannabidiol (CBD). Recently, cannabinoids have been decriminalized leading to a need for technology in identification and purification. From this investigation, MOF MIL-53(Al) will potentially absorb cannabinoids, while maintaining structural integrity through extraction. Theoretical calculations confirm this for different types of MIL-53(Al).

The surge of micro-thin two-dimensional materials (2DMs) provides a promising outlook on a wide variety of applications in radiation hard environments such as space radiation environment, high-altitude flights, and particle accelerators. They offer a relatively new set of unique chemical/physical attributes which includes bandgap tunability, chemical composition variation, and high Young’s modulus despite their atomically thin and light structure. This paper focuses on the review of the effects of proton-irradiation on MoS2, WSe2, and Graphene.

To date, no study has examined public perceptions of the four dominant types of school security measures--physical, interactionist, legalistic, and preparedness--documented in the scholarly literature. This study aims to fill this literary gap by assessing Pennsylvania residents’ (N=522) perceptions of school security measures and their racial and regional variants. The findings suggest that a majority of the public favor all types of mechanisms, but showed the most support for preparedness mechanisms.

Foundry in a Box is an education and outreach kit created by the American Foundry Society. However, it has not been updated in over 25 years and students still use hot molten tin to create simple sand molds. The purpose of this project is to develop an analogous fluid to molten metal by seeing how fluid flows inside a simple mold when the density and viscosity are varied. 

On stagnant-lid planets, the crust is not recycled by subduction and can grow thick enough to significantly impact mantle convection. We perform numerical models of stagnant-lid convection to determine new scaling laws for convective heat flux that specifically account for the presence of a thick buoyant crustal layer, or the ``thick crust limit," where the crustal thickness determines mantle properties. We find that smaller planets are more likely to enter the thick crust limit.  

Infectious disease prevalence is controlled by an infection’s basic reproductive ratio, R0, defined by the number of secondary infections per individual. For many real-world diseases, infection prevalence is known to exhibit fluctuations overtime. We explore a set of renewal equations to study how delays in recovery and immunity, as well as changes in the R0 value, may contribute to oscillations of infection prevalence.

This poster will show how we have applied qualitative research methods to examine the impact of engagement on students and how entities like the library can foster relationships with engagement. We have analyzed literature surrounding student engagement and library space, held interviews with students and each other, and plan to analyze other students’ and our own engagement journeys through interviews, coding and writing our own academic analysis of our findings.

Since the rise in severity of the pandemic this past year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has faced medical device and supply shortages to accommodate patients in urgent care due to COVID-19. The United States prioritizes the effective distribution of supplies to high-risk areas. This research dives into data visualization design concepts behind self-generated Tableau dashboards to support decision points and reduce ambiguity, providing insight for COVID-19 supply allocation.