Summer Research 2020 Poster Session
SUMMER 2020
Live Poster Session: Zoom LinkThursday, July 30th 1:15-2:30pm EDT Abstract: Half of the global population already lives in cities, and by 2050 two-thirds of the world’s people are expected to live in urban areas. The speed and scale of urbanization brings tremendous challenges in developing sustainable cities. In this project, we seek to understand the … Read more
Live Poster Session: Zoom LinkThursday, July 30th 1:15-2:30pm EDT Abstract: The stock market in China was established in 1990. Then, a “quota system” was implemented from 1992-2002, which allowed the government to centrally allocate shares of IPO to provinces. The allocation of quota was not evenly distributed. We find that before 1996, the allocation of … Read more
Live Poster Session: Zoom LinkThursday, July 30th 1:15-2:30pm EDT Abstract: Health politicization is when political cues become integrated into the public presentation of a health issue. COVID-19 is a political-communication and health-communication crisis. The pandemic has been communicated in diverse ways – through conflicting science, downplayed threats, emotional arousal, and fragmented media. Republican politicians publicly … Read more
Abstract: The purpose of this poster is to analyze the correlation between the Wesleyan Word Experience Project’s age of acquisition and familiarity results from undergraduate students and the lexical decision data from the English Lexicon Project. This poster delves into multivariate analysis testing for the significance of these two predictor variables along with the baseline … Read more
Live Poster Session: Zoom LinkThursday, July 30th 1:15-2:30pm EDT Abstract: In this paper, we use the relative moments in depository and non-depository single-family mortgage loans to provide evidence on the existence of a loan-flow-supply channel of monetary policy transmission. We find evidence that can be described as a slowdown in the pace of mortgage loan … Read more
Live Poster Session: Zoom LinkThursday, July 30th 1:15-2:30pm EDT Abstract: W State legislators have the power to shape the policies, economies, and trajectories of their state for years to come. Following the 2020 election, many state legislatures will also be drawing the district lines for congressional and state legislative seats for the next decade. With … Read more
Live Poster Session: Zoom LinkThursday, July 30th 1:15-2:30pm EDT Abstract: We use molecular dynamics simulations to study the effect of chain length on the properties of polymer-nanoparticle (NP) composites. We show that polymers slightly elongate near the NP interface and chains tend to align their longest axis with the NP interface. The effect of NP … Read more
Live Poster Session: Zoom LinkThursday, July 30th 1:15-2:30pm EDT Abstract: The problem of “news deserts” — places where there is no traditional news outlet like a newspaper or local radio or TV — is a challenge in the current media environment. One little-studied aspect of this problem is that news consumers can use alternative Internet … Read more
Live Poster Session: Zoom LinkThursday, July 30th 1:15-2:30pm EDT Abstract: Understanding the economic incentives for Pakistani Diaspora communities to invest back into Pakistan. Live Poster Session: Zoom LinkThursday, July 30th 1:15-2:30pm EDT
Live Poster Session: Zoom LinkThursday, July 30th 1:15-2:30pm EDT Abstract: Debris disks are tenuous, dusty belts surrounding main sequence stars generated by collisions between planetesimals. HD 206893 is one of only two stars known to host a directly imaged brown dwarf orbiting interior to its debris ring, in this case at a projected separation of … Read more
Live Poster Session: Zoom LinkThursday, July 30th 1:15-2:30pm EDT Abstract: The purpose of this project was to use geographic modelling to learn about the lives of two 15th Century Archbishops of York, John Kempe (1426-1452), and William Booth (1452-1464). For this analysis, we examined the geographic distribution and categorization of their indulgence grants, compiled from … Read more
Live Poster Session: Zoom LinkThursday, July 30th 1:15-2:30pm EDT Abstract: The Gravitational N-Body problem is a problem in physics to predict the motions of N particles interacting gravitationally. For N<3, there exist exact solutions which are easy to compute for all time, given initial conditions. However, for N>2, such solutions do not exist. To quickly … Read more
Live Poster Session: Zoom LinkThursday, July 30th 1:15-2:30pm EDT Abstract: The goal of this research is to develop a better understanding of World War II war production and its role in the development of the U.S. economy in the 1940s. This project serves to build on Professor Brunet’s previous research on the economic effects of … Read more
Live Poster Session: Zoom LinkThursday, July 30th 1:15-2:30pm EDT Abstract: My work for Professor Brunet’s project allows her to track all of the U.S. government’s spending on ships and boats during World War 2. This summer I have done extensive data mining and management of a data set composed of over 190,000 U.S. government war … Read more
Live Poster Session: Zoom LinkThursday, July 30th 1:15-2:30pm EDT Abstract: Dou et al engineered the first fluorescence-activating beta barrel that binds a small GFP derived chromophore known as DFHBI. The Smith Lab subsequently developed a more comprehensive and rational explanation for why one variant of the beta barrel structure differed from another in terms of … Read more
Live Poster Session: Zoom LinkThursday, July 30th 1:15-2:30pm EDT Abstract: Our research is focused on elucidating the functional significance of a ‘GCN’ 3-nucleotide periodicity observed in protein coding open reading frames (ORFs). GCN is overrepresented in the initial codons of ORFs (the ramp region), particularly in highly expressed genes. The Weir lab has observed through … Read more