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The Ideal Dog, Owen Graham
The Ideal Dog, Owen Graham
Fall Student Research Symposium 2020
The goal of this project was to look into all of the different jobs or tasks that we as humans have dogs perform and try to pinpoint what exactly it is that makes a dog ideal for each task. After identifying desirable characteristics, I considered physical traits in order to create an ideal dog that would be able to perform the greatest number of jobs possible.
National Security & Climate Change, Madison Mortensen
National Security & Climate Change, Madison Mortensen
Fall Student Research Symposium 2020
Certain scientific subjects are often divisive or technical, which makes those topics difficult to discuss with audiences outside the scientific sphere. One way of getting around this obstacle is to cater scientific communication to different target audiences to cut through any audience biases. In order to accomplish that, a communicator needs to understand the relationship between audiences' worldviews, and what they know, feel, and do regarding the subject at hand, and then how that relationship influences the types of media audiences trust and to which they respond positively. The following study investigates the worldviews of a military audience with respect …
Galactic Sources In Gamma-Ray Diffuse Emission, Melissa Rasmussen
Galactic Sources In Gamma-Ray Diffuse Emission, Melissa Rasmussen
Fall Student Research Symposium 2020
The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has detected hundreds of Galactic gamma-ray sources, most of them pulsars. But the Galaxy contains tens of thousands of such sources which are still undetected due to their low flux, or because of conflation of the foreground with sources. Characterizing the general properties of detected sources would allow us to estimate the contribution to the diffuse Galactic emission from these undetected sources and in turn it would help the detection of new sources and even searches for dark matter. We present updates on our long-term effort to characterize the general properties of Galactic gamma-ray …
Dog-Headed: Outcast To All, Wesley Mills
Dog-Headed: Outcast To All, Wesley Mills
Fall Student Research Symposium 2020
Cynocephali are a group of mythological, dog-headed, humans that appear throughout various cultures. Despite the wide range of region and time period in which they are used, they consistently represent a quality of "otherness".
Modeling Reflectance Spectra Of Nanorod Arrays With Arrays Of Light Sources, Christian Lange
Modeling Reflectance Spectra Of Nanorod Arrays With Arrays Of Light Sources, Christian Lange
Fall Student Research Symposium 2020
It is known that carbon-nanotube forests, nanopillar arrays, and other formations of quasi-periodic nanostructures of various materials (semiconductors, semimetals, and metals) can display a very low light reflectance over a wide range of wavelengths, and that the reflectance eventually starts to rise beyond an onset wavelength. As these materials can be quite reflective in planar form, this phenomenon indicates that morphology rather than material plays a dominant role. However, a quantitative analysis of the reflectance spectra of periodic structures has yet to be established. As a first step, we use an array of light sources to model the reflection from …