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How powerful is the President?
How powerful is the President of the United States? Do they have more power over certain types of policy (e.g., immigration policy) than others? Why? Do they need to cooperate with Congress? Are they accountable to the voters? And how has this changed over time? This project could involve reviewing scholarly literature, gathering and analyzing data, and presenting results in the form of a scientific research paper, blog, social media account, or other platform of your choosing. You might identify potential interventions that could increase accountability of the President to the people.
Quantitative, Social Science
How to Win an Election
How do voters decide who to vote for? How much does political party drive their decisions? Do they care about issues, or just about the economy? If they care about issues, which ones (foreign policy? civil rights? immigration? abortion? taxes? tariffs?) What role does the media (traditional news media or social media) play in campaigns and elections? Do the decisions candidates make during elections (like ads) even matter? This project could involve reviewing scholarly literature, gathering and analyzing data, and presenting results in the form of a scientific research paper, blog, social media account, or other platform of your choosing. If interested, you could use research methods such as surveys or interviews to understand how people in your community decide how to vote.
Quantitative, Social Science
Is Congress accountable to the people?
Do members of the Senate or House of Representatives care what their constituents want? Why or why not? If they don't, how do they decide what to do in Congress (do they listen to corporations or interest groups? Do they just do what the president wants? what their party wants?) How could we increase accountability in the U.S. Congress? This project could involve reviewing scholarly literature, gathering and analyzing data, and presenting results in the form of a scientific research paper, blog, social media account, or other platform of your choosing. You might identify potential interventions that could increase accountability of Members of Congress to their constituents.
Quantitative, Social Science
Biomaterial Design for 3D Printed Muscles
Replacing damaged or missing muscle is an important problem in today's medical landscape. We could investigate new ways to think about how we may improve our ability to create new muscle through bioprinting or other manufacturing techniques. Several of my previous positions in school and industry have focused on how we can create complex tissue structures using creative bioprinting methods and culture techniques. We could dive into the literature that exists on creating muscle tissue to get an idea of where the current weaknesses are in the field. We could then formulate a research plan to attempt to fill in one or more of those gaps that we discovered. I have extensive experience with a wide variety of 3D printing technologies and we could work together to design a 3D printing process of biomaterials specifically to recreate muscle. This could result in a prototype design plan that could be used as a basis for initial testing. We could also explore how we could use this prototype to create hypothesis driven experiments to determine how practical and viable these muscles might be.
Biology, Engineering, Biotech
What makes your favorite microbe so special?
Get experience understanding how genes and genomes allow certain bacteria to thrive in certain environments and others to struggle. - Develop your own hypothesis on which traits may help your microbe of interest! out compete others. - Learn where to find genomes and how to interpret their gene content using data science methods and (free & user-friendly) publicly available genomics tools! - Compare your microbe's genome to other microbe genomes and determine if your hypothesis is supported by your comparative genomic analysis! All of these things are essential parts of every day life of a researcher. Learning how to conduct this work is invaluable for getting started conducting actual research.
Biology, Biotech, Computer Science
Exploring Active Galactic Nuclei Light Curves
Active galactic nuclei are the powerhouses and central engines of large galaxies across the universe. These central engines are responsible for a multitude of phenomenon. One way to truly understand what is happening and why, is to better understand the variable nature of the light we see coming from these objects. We do this by studying light curves in different wavelengths. By taking these light curves and seeing how they change in brightness over different timescales, we can learn more about whats happening at the centers of these large galaxies and the black holes within them. All data used in this project is publicly available and accessible with the potential of a scientific research paper, presentation or letter as result.
Physics
Inspection Time Reduction Project
Suppose you are supporting a manufacturing operations environment and you have designed a brand new design that is ready for production. There is a critical operation step that requests detailed inspection of the newly designed product. You have been tasked by your supervisor to design an inspection tool that can significantly reduce inspection time per part and standardize inspection methods. How would you go about this? What steps would need to be taken to validate the effectiveness of the inspection tool?
Engineering
A Business Plan For a New Product or Service Idea
For students with an idea for a new product or new service, this project will guide them through the steps in preparing a business plan and a slideshow pitch deck to attract investors and partners.
Business
An Examination of Recent Changes in the Music Industry
This project examines the literature to see how new technologies such as streaming and lower-cost self-producing songs is affecting the music industry.
Business
Increasing Individual, Group, and Organizational Creativity and Innovation
This research project reviews the importance of increasing individual, group, and organizational creativity and innovation. The project reviews the literature to identify specific approaches and techniques to apply to increase creativity and innovation.
Business