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Advanced Practice Radiation Therapy: A Needs Assessment In Texas, Jennifer Navas, Vanessa Sorto, Cindy Tran, Rachel Gallagher, Ramsi Rodriguez

Research Methods Poster Session 2026

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A Meta-Narrative Review: Digital Analysis Of Stained Tissue Slides Influences Diagnostic Accuracy And Quality Control In Histology, Sofia A. Alvarado, Linh N. Dinh, Brooklyn S. Johnson, Marisol Palacios

Research Methods Poster Session 2026

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​​The Effect Of Bacteroides Species Dysbiosis In Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Meta-Narrative Review, Janiece Chan, Ashlyn Kerns, Katherine Truong, Jazmin Ysaguirre, Mary Coolbaugh-Murphy, Denise M. Juroske Short

Research Methods Poster Session 2026

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A Meta-Narrative Review Of Histological Evaluation As The Gold Standard For Lung Adenocarcinoma Diagnosis Using Ttf-1 Biomarkers, Sebastianz P. Nguyen, Ariana C. Fonseca, Sylvia Zavala Rideaux

Research Methods Poster Session 2026

No abstract provided.

Meta-Narrative Review: The Role Of Pen-A And Other Genetic Mutations In Ceftriaxone-Resistant Neisseria Gonorrhoeae, Elizabeth Calderon, Alejandra D. Coreas, Bereniz A. Esmeralda, Jianne A. Peregrino, Denise M. Jursoke Short, Mary Coolbaugh-Murph

Research Methods Poster Session 2026

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The Disability History Of Brown V. Board Of Education, Britney R. Wilson

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

In 1952, two years before the Supreme Court of the United States decided Brown v. Board of Education, Black deaf students in Washington, D.C., who had been prohibited from attending the local school for white deaf students and forced to go to school in Maryland, won the right to be educated in their hometowns in Miller v. Board of Education of District of Columbia. Brown is heralded as one of the most important racial justice cases of all time. It overturned Plessy v. Ferguson’s longstanding “separate but equal” mandate and ruled that the segregation of students based …

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Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Dignity By Design: A Human-Centered Framework For Ethical Ai, Armin Tadayon

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 has triggered a global arms race–both among private technology companies and between nation states–for dominance in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). If this nascent technology, which is permeating every aspect of our lives as more companies across multiple sectors deploy it for a variety of functions, malfunctions or behaves in unanticipated ways, it can severely affect individuals in their day-to-day lives with broader consequences for society at large. As such, as AI permeates every aspect of our lives, and in some instances, begins to replace humans and human decision-making, it is imperative …

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Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Modulates Gut Microbiota And Lipid Metabolism To Reduce Diarrhea In Low-Birth-Weight Neonatal Calves, Zhanhe Zhang, Duo You, Donglin Wu, Xintong Li, Yang Jia, David L. Harmon, Ming Xu

Animal and Food Sciences Faculty Publications

This study aimed to elucidate the mechanism by which colonic fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) improves lipid metabolism in low-birth-weight neonatal calves via modulation of the gut microbial ecosystem. In a completely randomized design, seventy newborn Holstein calves (1 day old, 32.63 ± 3.13 kg BW) were assigned to two groups (35 calves/treatment; 30 females and 5 males per group). A healthy calf was used as a fecal donor. A 10% fecal bacterial suspension was prepared and administered colonically (50 mL, twice daily for 5 days). All calves were fed the same milk replacer and weaned using a step-down protocol at …

Building Community Through Tutoring, Jennifer Vermeer

The Voice

No abstract provided.

Diamond Staff Gain Campus Newsroom, Renee Wielenga

The Voice

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Finding Community In The Gaming Guild, Sarah Moss

The Voice

No abstract provided.

Lessons Of The Body, Sarah Moss

The Voice

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The Many Dordt Ties To Deep Reading, Andrea Dieleman

The Voice

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Vision-Language System Using Open-Source Llms For Consent And Instruction Gestures In Medical Interpreter Robots, Tung Ngo, Emma Murphy, Robert Ross

Conference papers

Effective communication is vital in healthcare, especially across language barriers, where non-verbal cues and gestures are critical. This paper presents a privacy-preserving vision-language framework for medical interpreter robots that detects specific speech acts (consent and instruction) and generates corresponding robotic gestures. Built on locally deployed open-source models, the system utilizes a Large Language Model (LLM) with few-shot prompting for intent detection. We also introduce a novel dataset of clinical conversations annotated for speech acts and paired with gesture clips. Our identification module achieved 0.90 accuracy, 0.93 weighted precision, and a 0.91 weighted F1-Score. Our approach significantly improves computational efficiency and, …

Annum Arcanum (2026)

Annum Arcanum, 2024-

Annum Arcanum is "an atelier and annual anthology archiving arcane works." The organization of the same name was founded at VCU in the fall of 2023, and published its first collection in the spring of 2024. From the Letter from our Founder in vol. 0: "First, we seek to create spaces specifically catered to the showcasing of works that are experimental, niche, or otherwise outside of the mainstream in other words, the arcane...Beyond that, we strive to be a resource for students to develop their skills as artists."

Accuracy Of Pulse Oximeters Across Varying Skin Pigmentations, Dylan Che, Carrina Chu, Carmen Eng, Justin Nguyen, Katherine Praywell, Gaby Ugarte

Bachelor of Science in Nursing Senior Synthesis

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The Well-Poised Property And Torus Quotients, Joseph Cummings, Christopher Manon

Mathematics Faculty Publications

An embedded variety is said to be well-poised when the associated initial ideal degenerations coming from points of the tropical variety are reduced and irreducible. Varieties with a well-poised embedding admit a large collection of explicitly constructible Newton-Okounkov bodies. This paper aims to study the well-poised property under torus quotients. Our first result states that GIT quotients of normal well-poised varieties by quasi-tori also have well-poised embeddings. As an application, we show that several Hassett spaces, (Formula presented.), are well-poised under Alexeev’s embedding. Conversely, given an affine T-variety X with polyhedral divisor (Formula presented.) on a well-poised base Y, we …

Minnesota School Psychologists Survey: Job Satisfaction And Professional Practice, Mary Jane Gunderson

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

Historically, school psychologists’ roles emphasized eligibility determination through assessment, resulting in practitioners spending a substantial proportion of their time in assessment-related activities. However, this contradicts National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) recommendations promoting prevention-related actives such as intervention and consultation. Prior research further found that school psychologists prefer more diverse professional practices, with a variety in professional practices leading to increased job satisfaction. Furthermore, discrepancies between actual and preferred roles are associated with lower job satisfaction. Although national research has examined professional practices and job satisfaction, limited attention has been given to these relationships at the state level. The purpose …

Recovering From The Ego Death Of The Internet: How The Communications Decency Act Has Shattered Cyber-Libertarianism And The Non-Exceptionalist Move Toward A Brighter Digital World, Peyton Friedlander

Michigan Technology Law Review

For nearly thirty years, the legal framework for analyzing liability for claims of tortious wrongdoing on the Internet has been governed by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (“CDA”). However, much has changed since the Act’s inception. Since Congress enacted the CDA, courts have interpreted its provisions far beyond their original meaning, creating a regime that ultimately destroys a prospective plaintiff’s ability to recover the equitable remedies once available to those seeking redress for online invasions of privacy and reputational harms.

As the Internet continues to grow and changes in technology rapidly develop, it is time to re-center equitable …

Conversational Ai And Human-Centered First Amendment, Inyoung Cheong

Michigan Technology Law Review

Human-centered artificial intelligence (AI) is premised on the idea that humans must remain the ultimate locus of agency in technological systems. First Amendment jurisprudence has displaced this commitment. By extending speech protection to algorithmic architectures, the judiciary has forged a doctrinal shield that insulates corporate actors from the consequences of their products. Conversational AI deepens this crisis through intimate incursions into the epistemic and emotional registers of the self. Emerging approaches that anchor First Amendment coverage to the controllability or traceability of AI outputs offer no stable solution. Policy-level design choices such as safety guardrails and alignment processes can readily …

River City Fashion (2026 Spring)

River City Fashion, 2024-

From the https://studentmedia.vcu.edu/student-media/river-city-fashion/" target="_blank">VCU Student Media Center: "The online-only, student-run fashion and style website reports local events but also details style trends while uncovering local design talent."

Pwatem: An Anthology Of Literature And Art (2026)

Pwatem (Poictesme), 2006-

Pwatem is an anthology of literature and art from undergraduate students at Virginia Commonwealth University. Pwatem publishes poetry, prose and art of all kinds from talented undergraduate students of all majors.

Aortic Root Aneurysm Repair Complicated By The Use Of Va-Ecmo Support: A Case Study, Tristyn Gullen

Bachelor of Science in Diagnostic Ultrasound Projects

Assessing and monitoring a growing aortic root aneurysm through an echocardiogram is essential, as this can become life-threatening and lead to in-depth cardiovascular complications. Many individuals can live with an unknown aortic aneurysm due to the lack of symptoms until the pathology progresses and becomes deadly. By utilizing multimodality imaging such as; Transthoracic-Echocardiogram (TTE), Transesophageal-Echocardiogram (TEE), and Computed Tomography (CT), we can assess this pathology. This case study examines a 45-year-old male with significant cardiac history, including a dilated aortic root and mechanical aortic valve replacement, who has missed several routine follow-up echo appointments. Using the most recent imaging results, …

Unexpected Culprit Revealed After Mechanical Aspiration Thrombectomy: High Thrombus Burden Presenting With Junctional Rhythm Due To Occlusion Of Sinoatrial Node Artery, Originating From Left Circumflex Artery, Anush Agrawal, Dilesha D. Kumanayaka, Anusha Putta

Gulf Coast Division GME Research Day 2026

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A Case Report Of Anaphylactic Shock To Tirzepatide, Elinor Barsh, Mohamed Ahmed, Dmitriy Scherbak

Continental and Mountain Divisions GME Resarch Day 2026

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Right Upper Quadrant Pain With Perihepatitis, Morgan D. Homan, Jake Valentine, Edwin R. Malone Ii

Gulf Coast Division GME Research Day 2026

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Cultivating Humanity: A Scalable Blueprint For Celebrating Humanism In Graduate Medical Education, Edrianna Mae Ablola, Grace Desrochers, Shuchita Jhaveri, A Charales, L Tatineni, Marelle Montanez, Shane Jenks, Rajeev Raghavan

Gulf Coast Division GME Research Day 2026

No abstract provided.