Mentoring diverse students has become an important topic at colleges supporting equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), as the methods needed for effective interactions with this population could be different from traditional ...

The purpose of this project was to build a custom smart watch from an open-source design. Through this project, I was able to construct an affordable and fully programmable and customizable smart watch with WiFi and Bluetooth ...

The IVC (inferior vena cava) is a large blood vessel that travels through the abdomen. An IVC filter is a spider-like flexible metal object which is compressed to sit inside of the IVC. IVC filters catch blood clots traveling ...

Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) is a small group of dedicated students that have been working to promote and recreate one of the primary Student/Faculty workspaces in the Communication and Journalism Department, known as the ...

The enhanced ordering arrangement of liquid crystals has been documented for well over a century, but the increase in popularity of inducible mesophases has emerged as a leading  optioelectronic  material. Applications ...

Algebraic surfaces are beautiful objects that describe sets of space where a system of polynomials vanishes. Their surface is smooth, but can have corners, cusps, self-intersections, and sharp points. When 3D printing ...

When the Civil War began, Emily Quiner was a middle-class schoolteacher in Madison, Wisconsin. When news about the attack on Fort Sumter was announced, Emily immediately volunteered for the Union cause. She sewed flags ...

Between the years of 1945 to 1959, following the conclusion of World War II, the United States government brought roughly 1,600 Nazi scientists to America. Done out of “national interest,” these scientists would assist ...

In 17th century colonial New England, gender was intrinsically tied to power. For women in Puritan communities, their marginal power came in their ability to properly wield their piety; feminine traits that defined them ...

1970 through the 1980s was a time in the United States when the question of how schools should address written literature was up for debate. In Minnesota, there was a Coalition that had formed to help the fight against ...