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GCI Team Wins the 2021 Kevin and Tam Ross Undergraduate Research Prize

August 18, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Grand Challenges Initiative

Grand Challenges Initiative (GCI) students Heather Andrini, Ashley Okhovat, and Sydni Au Hoy (l. to r. above) have been awarded the 2021 Kevin and Tam Ross Undergraduate Research Prize hosted by The Leatherby Libraries. Heather, Ashley, and Sydni started working on their project, “Psychogenic Non-epileptic Seizures Disorder: Treatment after the Diagnostic Odyssey” as the focus of

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Team Waxworms: Degradation of Polyethylene Plastic with Galleria mellonella

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

The excessive disposal of plastics has caused an unfathomable accumulation of plastics in cities, sewage systems, landfills, oceans etc., and is threatening ecosystems and their inhabitants all over the globe. With the absence of a sustainable and environmentally friendly means of properly disposing these plastics, this experiment was geared towards solving this challenge. In this

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Working with Wastewater

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Working with Wastewater is a 2-4 player educational board game designed for ages 12 and up hosted on Tabletopia. Each player is a wastewater treatment company looking to maximize profits while minimizing the waste produced by treating wastewater. Companies will start with a distinct wastewater treatment facility with different assets. Purchase additional wastewater treatment technologies

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hAPPy: Mental Health Application

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Our application’s purpose is to provide an opportunity to the average person in educating themselves on how their habitual tendencies effect their mental health and encourage healthy practices. hAppy: Mental Health Application Poster

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Human Immunodeficiency Virus: Eradicating the Stigma

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Our Grand Challenge Initiative throughout the past three semesters has been to create ways to reduce transmission of HIV, as well as create ways in which adolescents are more drawn to learning about sexual health. Human Immunodeficiency Virus: Eradicating the Stigma Poster

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Teaching Ocean Acidification

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Ocean acidification is a phenomenon that results from increasing anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions on land. As carbon dioxide is absorbed, a series of chemical reactions causes an increase in acidity. This leads to many detrimental effects on marine organisms reverberate up the food chain. One reason ocean acidification remains a grand challenge is because of

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Why Causal Correlations are Applicable to Quantum Mechanics

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

When the concept of causality is thought of within a non-physics based context, it is typically thought of as the relationship between “cause” and “effect” or simply as the idea that something results in a subsequent event occurring. However, when brought into the context of physics, one must account for the two types of mechanics

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AR in Music Education

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Over the past couple of years, more and more schools have continuously cut funding for music programs around the country. This increase in budget cuts can be seen affecting students by not allowing students at a young age to be creative, which discourages them as they continue their education to think within boundaries consistently. The

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