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Bowlby, John, Corey Lieneman, Morgan Simpson, Cheryl B. Mcneil

Essays in Developmental Psychology

Edward John Mostyn Bowlby (February 27, 1907, London, England – September 2, 1990, Isle of Skye, Scotland) was a child psychologist, psychoanalyst, and psychiatrist renowned for his attachment theory. Bowlby was interested in how the caregiver-child bond impacted the child’s personality and emotional bonds formed later in life.

Kieran Egan, Benjamin Lowry, Lisa K. Lashley, Charles J. Golden

Essays in Developmental Psychology

Kieran Egan was born in 1942 in Clomel, Ireland. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1966 from the University of London. After graduating he was employed at the Institute for Comparative Studies in Kingston upon Thames as a research fellow. Egan then began a Ph.D. program in philosophy of education from Stanford Graduate School of Education, but after two years he transferred to Cornell University and completed his degree in 1972.  He then worked at Simon Frasier University as a professor of education.

Opposites Attract: The Melding Of Jazz Harmony And Pop Songwriting Sensibilities In The Music Of Norah Jones And Jamie Cullum, John Paciga

Composition/Recording Projects

Modern commercial songs have become increasingly difficult to categorize within a singular genre. This trend, as well as my own mixed musical background, inspired me to investigate the ways in which the seemingly disparate styles of pop and jazz can be synthesized. My research focuses primarily on how this synthesis is achieved in the musical works of Norah Jones and Jamie Cullum, two of the most successful crossover artists of the early 21st century. Drawing on musical elements from each of Jones's and Cullum's catalogs, I wrote and recorded five original songs. My analysis of these songs will help to …

Recycling Of Flexible Polyurethane Foams Using Glycolysis, Sarah Pezzenti, Tyler D'Amato, Susan Nelson, Antonella Merola

Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Student Publications

Polyurethane (PU), commonly used in products like mattresses, furniture, and insulation, is often landfilled at end-of-life, especially in bulky, nondegradable forms like mattresses. This project explores industrial-scale recycling of PU foam from discarded mattresses using a split-phase glycolysis process.

Novel Catalytic Production Of Tetrahydrofurfuryl Alcohol, Robert Hatch, Joshua Calhoun, Nicholas Breen, Jack Brophy

Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Student Publications

A sustainable synthesis of Furfural(C₅H₄O₂) from corn stover and subsequent hydrogenation to Tetrahydrofurfuryl Alcohol (THFA) over novel NiCu-Al catalyst.

Sustainable Waste-To-Resource Conversion In Space, Lexi Lueger, Russell C. Smith, J. Whitlow, Mt Reza

Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Student Publications

An innovative, sustainable waste management system for a lunar colony that eliminates waste while producing critical resources, such as oxygen and bio-rocket fuel, essential for long-term extraterrestrial habitation.

Entropy-Guided Transformers For Sentiment Prediction, Pedro H. Batista De Moura

Mathematics and System Engineering Student Publications

The use of an entropy-based loss function to improve BERT’s sentiment analysis on the Stanford Sentiment Treebank (SST-2) dataset. By studying entropy trends in a fine-tuned BERT model, we crafted a custom loss that stabilizes entropy in early layers (1–9) and penalizes entropy rises in later layers (10–12) using a mean entropy threshold. Our approach achieved 92.09% accuracy and a 92.31% F1 score, surpassing a cross-entropy baseline by 1.95%. These results highlight entropy-guided optimization’s potential for transformer models.

Finite Element Spaces Of Double Forms, Lily Dipaulo

Mathematics and System Engineering Student Publications

Many real-world problems lack exact solutions and require numerical methods for accurate approximations. These methods are essential in solid mechanics, computer graphics, etc.

Doc 2025-11 The Faculty Hearing Committee On Grievances Bylaws And Operating Procedures, University Of Dayton. Faculty Affairs Committee

Senate Documents

Faculty Hearing Committee on Grievances Bylaws and Operating Procedures

Appreciation Ally, Robert H. Rice, Phoebe Brajdic

Fisher Showcase 2025

Appreciation Ally is an innovative gratitude-focused app developed from evidence-based mental health research.

It uniquely blends visual positivity and reflective journaling, guiding users toward enhanced self-discovery, mood and appreciation.

The Biomedical Ethics Of Palliative Psychiatry In Anorexia Nervosa Patients, Mikayla Decesare

Fisher Showcase 2025

My presentation is going to be created from the extensive research paper that I am writing on the biomedical ethics of palliative psychiatry in patients specifically with Anorexia Nervosa. The paper as well as the presentation will explore ethical frameworks that can be applied to this medical practice by diving into case studies, looking at arguments of people currently in the field, analyzing what criteria needs to be taken into account, and more. This Keystone was added to the Biomedical Ethics course I am taking this semester so the audience is my classmates. However, this presentation is also tailored to …

Study Habits And Review Sessions, Lillian Gottstine

Fisher Showcase 2025

Seeing the outcomes of using and teaching different studying habits in a review session to see the effects on student preparedness for unit exams.

Policy Brief: The Nurse Practitioner Modernization Act, Ryleigh Hancock

Fisher Showcase 2025

This is a Policy Brief on why The Nurse Practitioner Modernization Act should be implemented and what actions need to be taken. This was a course assignment in my Healthcare Systems, Policy, and Law class but the primary audience would theoretically be policymakers.

Confronting Housing Challenges In West Virginia, Dawson Bernard, Gabrielle Frazier

CRC Research Symposium

The housing crisis in the United States has become a growing concern, with a lack of affordable, quality housing, and increased rates of homelessness. While this issue affects the nation as a whole, it takes on unique dimensions in rural and economically challenged places like West Virginia. What are the key trends and challenges in housing in West Virginia, and how do they impact housing quality, affordability, and access? Many communities across the state of WV are grappling with aging housing infrastructure, lack of new development, and economic instability. Motivated by both an omission in data and pressing housing issues …

The Chemical City Of The World: Mapping Petrochemical Communities In West Virginia, Isabelle Judy, Daniel Renfrew, Grace Dever

CRC Research Symposium

This project was conducted out of the Center for Resilient Communities in partnerships with the West Virginia Environment and Society Lab. This research focuses on the impact of industrialization and water contamination on community health and well-being in South Charleston, West Virginia. West Virginia and the Ohio River valley have been at the heart of petrochemical development since the 1900s. Scholars refer to the area as a “sacrifice zone” that has fed the economic development of the nation while forcing local residents to suffer its toxic fallout. Many residents are aware of chemicals in their community however, there are gaps …

Stories Of Hope: An Environmental Justice Analysis Of The Past, Present, And Future Direction For Buckhannon And Tygart Valley River, Brooke E. Sikole, Matthew N. Olivero, Grace E. Dever

CRC Research Symposium

This project was conducted out of the WVU Center for Resilient Communities in partnership with local non-profits Save The Tygart Watershed Association and Buckhannon River Watershed Association. This research focuses on the impacts of industrialization and water contamination on the health and well-being of communities in the Tygart Valley Watershed. The Tygart Valley Watershed, like all other watersheds, is an incredibly important natural system that influences not only water quality and ecosystem health, but also the community within it. Encompassing rivers such as the Tygart Valley and Buckhannon, this watershed is no stranger to contamination and other challenges. Even so, …

Establishing The Creative Network: Wv's Arts Entrepreneur Ecosystem Project, Mckayla R. Braun, Domenica Queen

CRC Research Symposium

The Tamarack Foundation for the Arts’ (TFA) the fellowship for the arts is an art foundation committed to nurturing the next generation of artists by providing a comprehensive support system designed to promote both creative and professional development. Through its fellowship program, TFA provides artists with access to critical resources, including financial literacy education, mentorship, and structured opportunities for artistic and professional growth. Recognizing that creative talent alone is not always sufficient to sustain a long-term artistic practice, TFA’s mission is to equip fellows with the knowledge and tools necessary to thrive both within and beyond the studio. As part …

"Exploring The Training Data Landscape For Ai Based Threathunting For Protecting Intellectual Property", Manzi Siibo, Christopher Kreider

Cybersecurity Undergraduate Research Showcase

This study provides a comprehensive evaluation of the effectiveness that would result in the integration of AI into traditional threat hunting systems. To do so, 10-15 scholarly articles and data sets were evaluated to see the results of AI and machine learning threat hunting versus traditional systems. With so many proven benefits of this integration, this paper also explores how it impacts the protection of Intellectual property which is some of the most important forms of information that threat hunting systems aim to protect.

Realease, Donovan Murphy, Jonathan Bailey, Enrique Obregon

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Student Publications

RealEase transforms home buying through a web platform that integrates advanced property analysis with intuitive tools. Aggregating listings via various APIs, it offers a Market Insights Dashboard for visualizing trends and value indices, a Home Comparison Tool with colorcoded evaluations, an ROI Calculator for financial projections, and robust Home Search functionality. Leveraging machine learning, RealEase empowers users with data-driven decisions, making sophisticated real estate analysis accessible to everyone.

Exploring The Feasibility And Habitability Of Our Solar System, Austyn Brandenhoff

Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Student Publications

Our Solar System is often been used as a reference when studying other planetary systems, to answer questions such as “How could that planet have formed there?” But it is less often that our own Solar System is examined through that same scope. This research hopes to shed some light on that question by examining how the Solar System would be affected by the Sun’s mass – and therefore stellar classification – changing. Methods

Grading Systems For Cms Phase 2 Silicon Chips, Connor Clemens

Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Student Publications

With the production of new modules for the CMS Inner Tracker under way, a new system of quality control that could efficiently and effectively test samples from each batch needs to form hand in hand. Enter Panthera and Felis, which produce an Actionable Summary (AS) and grading rubric that serve to detect faults in module batches at each stage of manufacturing and assembly. Here we focus on the IV-Curve test of the bare modules for the CMS Readout Chips (CROCs) performed to ensure the integrity of the sensor, the CROCs, and the bump connectivity.

Planetary Evolution With Variable Stellar Metallicity, Justin Alderdice

Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Student Publications

To conduct my research, the software suite ' MESA’(Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics) was used to run simulations of planetary evolution. I focused on altering the host star’s metallicity fraction “Z”. By definition, metallicity is the fraction of a star that is made up of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium. For context, our Sun has a metallicity of Z=0.0122(1.22%)

Dac Carbon Dioxide Enhances The Growth Of Marine Algae And Seagrass, Marcel Pedrosa, Rana Alghorir, Juliann French, Brianna Romero, Katelynn Zagami

Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Student Publications

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) is a vital resource in multiple genes related to carbonate precipitation: ecosystems in that its presence affects the growth and tissue development of photosynthetic organisms in aquatic ecosystems. Current real-world understanding of the relationship between CO₂ and aquatic environments with photosynthetic organisms, such as the seagrass Halodule wrightii and the algae Ulva lactuca, remains limited. Photosynthetic organisms in aquatic ecosystems, such as microalgae, would be heavily reliant on the CO₂ levels in the environment for the expression of specific genes. With how closely related microalgae is to seagrass and algae, the effect CO₂ levels have on the …

Microtubule Instability Drives Developmental Defects In A Tauopathy Model, Joseph Mazzaro

Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Student Publications

TauV337M is a disease-linked allele that induces protein aggregation and causes degeneration in the worm motor cord 1,2. Loss of rpm-1 in TauV337M ameliorates neurodegeneration.

L.I.F.E. Live Intensive Field Evaluator, Haley Mcvey, Shemar Clayton, Charlotte Hardie, Jaylyn Mueller

Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Student Publications

Disasters often strike hardest in areas with limited medical resources. Current methods lack affordable real-time vital sign monitoring, leading to delays and misclassification. Portable, real-time tools are urgently needed to support faster, more accurate triage to save lives and improve care.

Structural Insights Into The Function, Dysfunction And Modulation Of Kv3 Channels, Manuel Covarrubias, Qiansheng Liang, Linh Nguyen-Phuong, Kyle J. Kennedy, Tyler D. Alexander, Ms, Andrew Sam

Department of Neuroscience Faculty Papers

The third subfamily of voltage-gated K⁺ (Kv) channels includes four members, Kv3.1, Kv3.2, Kv3.3 and Kv3.4. Fast gating and activation at relatively depolarized membrane potentials allows Kv3 channels to be major drivers of fast action potential repolarization in the nervous system. Consequently, they help determine the fast-spiking phenotype of inhibitory interneurons and regulate fast synaptic transmission at glutamatergic synapses and the neuromuscular junction. Recent studies from our group and a team of collaborators have used cryo-EM to demonstrate the surprising gating role of the Kv3.1 cytoplasmic T1 domain, the structural basis of a developmental epileptic encephalopathy caused by the …

Optimizing Hydrogel Performance Composed Of Japanese Pagoda Tree Extract Loaded-Gelatin-Sodium Alginate-Polyethylene Oxide For Biomedical Applications: Influence Incorporated Calcium-Based Metal Organic Frameworks And Zinc Oxide Nps, Samar A. Salim

Nanotechnology Research Centre

Gelatin/sodium alginate/polyethylene oxide hydrogel was synthesized by self-gelation method and utilized to achieve enhanced mechanical strength. Japanese pagoda, tree extracts rich in flavonoids and isoflavonoids was incorporated to enhance tissue repair along with ZnO-NPs to provide the hydrogel with necessary antimicrobial and other desirable biological properties. The inclusion of Ca-BDC MOF enhanced hydrogel matrix by providing more surface area and the presence of calcium ion needed for tissue regeneration. Results revealed that composite hydrogel displayed suitable gelation time and swelling rate that was further improved by incorporating the plant extract, ZnO-NPs, and Ca-BDC MOF. The efficacy of the tested formulations …

In Re: Juan Alvarez Perez

2025 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Zia Shaikh V. Commissioner Of Internal Revenue

2025 Decisions

Tax Court

Edwin Soto-Santana V. Stephan Wengen

2025 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania