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Stopping The Bleed At Uri, Emily Lefebre May 2024

Stopping The Bleed At Uri, Emily Lefebre

Senior Honors Projects

The number one cause of preventable death is uncontrolled bleeding from traumatic injury. From the unlikely scenario of a school shooting, to a campus car accident or an injury during a sports or club event, possessing skills to effectively stop a life-threatening bleed becomes a matter of life or death. The American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS COT) STOP THE BLEED® program is a campaign to teach communities how to respond effectively and efficiently to life-threatening bleeding in emergencies. STOP THE BLEED® aims to empower individuals with the knowledge and skills to stop severe bleeding by tourniquet application, …


Ciliate Endosymbiont Imaging Methodology, Aidan Boving, Roxanne Beinart May 2022

Ciliate Endosymbiont Imaging Methodology, Aidan Boving, Roxanne Beinart

Senior Honors Projects

Ciliates, a phylum of diverse microbial eukaryotes, are found in a wide range of environments, including anoxia. Anaerobic ciliates host intracellular methanogenic archaea – a unique type of symbiosis. Despite their importance, anaerobic ciliates and their symbiotic relationships remain understudied. Included in this is the ability to image and quantify the intracellular methanogenic symbionts in a precise, timely and replicable procedure. This project aimed to improve the current fluorescence microscopy methodology used for endosymbiont quantification. The proposed method is intended for use with the Opera Phenix, a high throughput spinning disk confocal microscope which can count large amounts of individual …


Temporal And Spatial Comparison Of Pseudo-Nitzschia Species Composition And Domoic Acid In Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island And The Northeast U.S. Shelf, Isabella Church, Bethany D. Jenkins May 2022

Temporal And Spatial Comparison Of Pseudo-Nitzschia Species Composition And Domoic Acid In Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island And The Northeast U.S. Shelf, Isabella Church, Bethany D. Jenkins

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Diatoms are unicellular algae that make up a significant portion of phytoplankton biomass at the base of marine food webs. Narragansett Bay (NB), RI is home to several species of the diatom genus Pseudo-nitzschia (P-n), some of which are known to cause harmful algal blooms through the production of the potent neurotoxin domoic acid (DA). This toxin can lead to Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning in humans through the consumption of affected shellfish. Although the presence of P-n has been well established in NB for over 50 years, DA levels have only recently become a problem, with shellfish harvest closures …


Wildlife Tracking Nrs 432, Michael Cerbo Mar 2022

Wildlife Tracking Nrs 432, Michael Cerbo

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Wildlife Tracking Nrs 432x, Michael Cerbo Mar 2022

Wildlife Tracking Nrs 432x, Michael Cerbo

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Particle Tracking Reveals Pelagic Red Crabs As Indicators Of Climate-Driven Range Expansion In The California Current, Elizabeth Saraf May 2021

Particle Tracking Reveals Pelagic Red Crabs As Indicators Of Climate-Driven Range Expansion In The California Current, Elizabeth Saraf

Senior Honors Projects

Since their first recorded occurrence in 1859, Pelagic Red Crabs (PRC; Pleuroncodes planipes) have experienced increased frequency of episodic mass stranding events in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. PRC’s are transported over 1,000 km northward of their central domain from the coast of central Baja California, Mexico. They have been reported by the thousands on the beaches of central and southern California. Their presence influences the surrounding ecosystem and commercial fisheries because they are nutritional prey items and large predators change their diet to incorporate PRC’s when they are available. Seasonal coastal currents and the California Undercurrent transport warmer waters …


The Journey To Reach Herd Immunity: The United State's Efforts Towards Controlling Sars-Cov-2, Natalina Mastroianni Apr 2021

The Journey To Reach Herd Immunity: The United State's Efforts Towards Controlling Sars-Cov-2, Natalina Mastroianni

Senior Honors Projects

COVID-19 is a respiratory disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) which emerged in December of 2019 and has been the leading global health concern since. SARS-CoV-2 is a positive sense single-stranded RNA virus coated with viral spike proteins that has led to over 500,000 deaths in the United States and is approaching 3,000,000 deaths worldwide. As COVID-19 persists globally in such high numbers, the virus has been able to undergo mutations, leading to three prominent variants: the United Kingdom variant (B.1.1.7), the South Africa variant (B.1.351), and the Brazil variant (P.1). These variants are more transmissible, …


The Journey To Reach Herd Immunity: The United State's Efforts Towards Controlling Sars-Cov-2, Natalina Mastroianni Apr 2021

The Journey To Reach Herd Immunity: The United State's Efforts Towards Controlling Sars-Cov-2, Natalina Mastroianni

Senior Honors Projects

COVID-19 is a respiratory disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) which emerged in December of 2019 and has been the leading global health concern since. SARS-CoV-2 is a positive sense single-stranded RNA virus coated with viral spike proteins that has led to over 500,000 deaths in the United States and is approaching 3,000,000 deaths worldwide. As COVID-19 persists globally in such high numbers, the virus has been able to undergo mutations, leading to three prominent variants: the United Kingdom variant (B.1.1.7), the South Africa variant (B.1.351), and the Brazil variant (P.1). These variants are more transmissible, …


Rhetorical Field Methods For Science Communication Bes 521, Michael Cerbo Mar 2021

Rhetorical Field Methods For Science Communication Bes 521, Michael Cerbo

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Parisitology Bio 331, Michael Cerbo Jan 2021

Parisitology Bio 331, Michael Cerbo

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A Guide To Freshwater Aquariums, Noah Savastano Dec 2020

A Guide To Freshwater Aquariums, Noah Savastano

Senior Honors Projects

The objective of this project was to create a complete guide, useful for someone of any aquarium expertise level, describing how to set up and care for an aquarium. This guide explains the science behind processes involved in setting up and maintaining an aquarium. It also educates the reader on how to properly prioritize the safety of the fish. A full text was first created including all relevant information gathered from scholarly texts and online sources. Original photographs were incorporated as a supplement to the text. Fish and aquatic plants were drawn to further illustrate the concepts that were described …


Fundamentals Of Biology Bio 110, Michael Cerbo Jul 2020

Fundamentals Of Biology Bio 110, Michael Cerbo

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Seminar In Biological Sciences Bio 228, Michael Cerbo May 2020

Seminar In Biological Sciences Bio 228, Michael Cerbo

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Inquiry Into Cell And Molecular Biology Cmb 395, Michael Cerbo Feb 2020

Inquiry Into Cell And Molecular Biology Cmb 395, Michael Cerbo

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Biology Of Sharks And Their Relatives Bio 422, Joanna Burkhardt Dec 2019

Biology Of Sharks And Their Relatives Bio 422, Joanna Burkhardt

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Undergraduate Research Science: Principles And Practice Bio 200, Michael Cerbo Oct 2019

Undergraduate Research Science: Principles And Practice Bio 200, Michael Cerbo

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Biology Of Human Health And Disease Bio 482g, Michael Cerbo Sep 2019

Biology Of Human Health And Disease Bio 482g, Michael Cerbo

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Biology Of Medicine Bio 481x, Michael Cerbo Sep 2019

Biology Of Medicine Bio 481x, Michael Cerbo

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Nature And Nurture: How Our Genes And Environments Shape Our Lives Bio 440g, Michael Cerbo Aug 2019

Nature And Nurture: How Our Genes And Environments Shape Our Lives Bio 440g, Michael Cerbo

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Surveying Apicomplexan Diversity And Dynamics In Narragansett Bay, Evelyn Spencer May 2019

Surveying Apicomplexan Diversity And Dynamics In Narragansett Bay, Evelyn Spencer

Senior Honors Projects

Parasites play an important role in marine ecosystems and their diversity is generally understudied. Apicomplexans, a group of parasitic protists in the phylum Alveolata, infect a wide variety of animal hosts and are abundant in ecosystems spanning from Polar Regions to Neotropical rainforests. Previous data generated from marine sediments in Antarctica, Naples Bay, and off the coast of Oslo, exhibit high diversity and numbers of apicomplexans. Abundance and diversity of these protists are unknown for Narragansett Bay, despite the fact that they infect many commercially important species. The aim of my study was to obtain abundance data and understand genetic …


Advanced Cell And Molecular Biology I Cmb 501, Michael Cerbo Apr 2019

Advanced Cell And Molecular Biology I Cmb 501, Michael Cerbo

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Advanced Cell & Molecular Biology Ii Cmb 502, Michael Cerbo Apr 2019

Advanced Cell & Molecular Biology Ii Cmb 502, Michael Cerbo

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Intertidal Ecology Bio 416, Michael Cerbo Feb 2019

Intertidal Ecology Bio 416, Michael Cerbo

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Microbiomes, Biofilms And Bacterial Communities Cmb 420x, Michael Cerbo Nov 2018

Microbiomes, Biofilms And Bacterial Communities Cmb 420x, Michael Cerbo

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Communicating Science Through Data Visualization Bio 230g, Michael Cerbo Nov 2018

Communicating Science Through Data Visualization Bio 230g, Michael Cerbo

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Techniques In Medicinal Chemistry And Molecular Biology Bps 451, Joanna Burkhardt Nov 2018

Techniques In Medicinal Chemistry And Molecular Biology Bps 451, Joanna Burkhardt

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Seminar In Biological Sciences Bio 266x, Michael Cerbo Oct 2018

Seminar In Biological Sciences Bio 266x, Michael Cerbo

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Marine Biodiversity: A Larval Perspective Bio 425g, Michael Cerbo Sep 2018

Marine Biodiversity: A Larval Perspective Bio 425g, Michael Cerbo

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Parisitology Bio 231x, Michael Cerbo Aug 2018

Parisitology Bio 231x, Michael Cerbo

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Pesticides And The Environment Ent 411/511, Michael Cerbo Aug 2018

Pesticides And The Environment Ent 411/511, Michael Cerbo

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