Spring 2025 Issue
Mentor Highlights
Research Articles
鈥擜manda Ares, Morgan Koskela, Allison Petry (Mentor: Summer Cook)
Since the launch of the first commercially available carbon-fiber plated (CFP) shoe in 2016, world records in men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 long-distance running ...
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鈥擬organ Breen (Mentors: Andrew Conroy and Silke von Eynern)
Vervet monkeys, particularly infants, are winding up in rehabilitation centers all over Africa at an increasingly alarming rate.
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鈥擡milie Carroll (Mentor: Rose Pruiksma)
When people think of music traditions, their first thought might not be of those that exist right in their local communities.
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鈥擳ravis Dean-Ploof (Mentor: Nick Smith)
The 鈥渃hecklist鈥 analogical approach of trying to pin down the characteristics that do and do not constitute fascism causes consistent disagreement aro...
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鈥擥abe Dennett and Nathan Goodwin (Mentor: Michael Brian)
The increased prevalence of a 24/7 society, monopolized by around-the-clock obligations, creates an environment that disrupts normal sleep patterns.
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鈥擱owan Grzeszkiewicz-O鈥橬eill (Mentor: Sarah Rigg)
Mane-pulling is a controversial technique used to make horses 鈥渟how ready鈥 for English riding such as dressage or show jumping.
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鈥擪arter Mingze Hanley (Mentor: Tejas S. Aralere)
Among the most important cultural interchanges that resulted from international trade routes linking Rome to China as early as the second century BCE ...
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鈥擭olan Juneau (Mentor: Richard A. Messner)
In the motion picture industry, one of a cinematographer鈥檚 jobs is to move the plane of focus of the camera鈥檚 lens to line up with a subject so that i...
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鈥擲arah Nicholls (Mentor: Matthew MacManes)
The cactus mouse is one of the most striking examples of a desert-adapted species, because it is able to survive its whole life without drinking water...
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Research Briefs
鈥擩enna Loporcaro (Mentor: Konstantinos Sousounis)
Applying regeneration concepts to heal tissues that would otherwise succumb to irreversible damage, such as the eye, is what makes studying regenerati...
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鈥擜manda Wittemann (Mentor: Jolie Wormwood)
One well-known phenomenon associated with intertemporal choices is delay discounting, which refers to people鈥檚 tendency to choose an immediate reward ...
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