Students will have the opportunity to do research in the areas of Arts and Health and Arts and Social Change. Arts and Health areas include: contribution to the RU Disability and the Arts component of the RU Disability Studies Minor (to also be a major); the Expressive Arts 4-H Agent currently develops curriculum and teaches in the arts component of the Disability Studies minor program. Contribute to the Creative Arts in Nutrition Education programs the Expressive Arts 4-H Agent currently offers. (...)
Aresty Research Assistant
SEBS-4-H Youth Development
Adolescence , Children , Education , Youth Development (...)
The Black Ecologies project addresses persistent inequities in environmental education by reconnecting Black youth with the land-based knowledge, stewardship practices, and educational traditions of their communities. Grounded in Black Ecologies and land-based pedagogy, the project treats land and place as sources of knowledge and positions Black and Indigenous knowledge holders, farmers, elders, environmental practitioners, and community organizations as intellectual partners. Through cohort-based (...)
Aresty Research Assistant
SAS - Africana Studies, SAS - Geography
American Ethnic Studies, Education , Environmental (...)
Biomolecular condensates are a class of important biomaterials inside the cell that have unique sequence-defined mechanical properties. This project will examine mitochondrial nucleoid biomolecular condensates, which are formed from mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and packaging protein TFAM. Very little is known about how the mechanical properties of the mitochondrial nucleoids are encoded by the TFAM and mtDNA sequences, though this new knowledge could shed light on how mitochondria biophysically regulate (...)
Life Sciences Alliance SURF
Engn - Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, (...)
"The organization of the cell's genome in three dimensions is fundamental to different cellular functions. The nucleus is divided into distinct chromosomal territories and each chromsome is segregated into active or repressed regions. While the utility of organizing the chormsome remains under investigation, it is known that multiple mechanisms orchestrate DNA organization. Crucially, Topologically Associating Domains (TADs) serve as key structural units, forming DNA loops that physically segregate (...)
Life Sciences Alliance SURF
SAS - DLS - Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Cell & Molecular Biology, Genomics , Life Sciences
"Here, we aim to develop surrogate deep learning models to replace finite element (FE) modeling and optimization for characterizing the mechanical response of soft tissues such as brain white matter. The forward problem of predicting the evolution of stress for a given tissue geometry—typically performed using FE modeling—is replaced by a recurrent neural network (RNN) that learns the structure–property relationship between tissue microstructure, material properties and stress-strain behavior. The (...)
Life Sciences Alliance SURF
Engn - Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Life Sciences
