SD EPSCoR News

Characterizing Historical Piano Wire — 24p — Mallory Moats, Arian Sheets Piano wire, or string, plays a key role in the musical sound of a piano. However, these wires are also apt to break, meaning […]

Melatonin Exerts Protective Effects in RPE-1 Cells via Wnt — 23p — Devin Messer, Abigail Goebel, Abigail Renner The Wnt Signaling pathway is a critical biochemical pathway that plays pivotal roles in cell growth, differentiation, […]

Processing, and Characterization of Alginate Tubes — 91p — Logan Merriam, Logan Merriam, Laura Brunmaier, Arushi Thatola, Izzy Grinager, Abigail Flanegan, Kara Huse, Travis Walker Alginate is a naturally occurring polysaccharide derived from brown algae, […]

Liquid Neural Networks (LNN) for Early Breast Cancer Diagnosis — 26a — Chenchaiah Mekalathuru, Dr. KC Santhosh, Dr. Rodrigue Rizk Breast cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women globally, with survival rates […]

TuneOut — Membership Inference Attacks on Large Language Models — 19p — Bergen Marshall, Carl D. Torbjornsson, Rohith Kandikatla, Linus von Ekensteen Lofgren Commercial machine learning models are often trained on undisclosed data, the origins […]

Measuring Muon Flux of Davis Cavern at Sanford Underground Research Facility — 18p — Ashley Marines, Andrew Freeman Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) depth and rock stability make it ideal for sensitive physics experiments that […]

Milk as Source for Gatekeeping Coating for Drug Loaded Calcium Carbonate Microparticles for Targeted Drug Release — 17p — Rochelle Mann, Mahadi Hasan, Sajith Wijewardhane, Robert Patton When treating infected tissues, the drugs can damage […]

Developing High-Purity Sodium Oxychloride Solid-State Electrolyte for Sodium-Ion Batteries — 14p — Karen Ly, Kamden Bryant, Alevtina Smirnova Sodium-ion batteries have attracted significant attention as an alternative energy source to lithium-ion batteries. Solid-state sodium oxyhalides […]

Mapping the Proteome of the Outer Nuclear Envelope — 13p — Margaret Ludwig, Danielle May The nuclear envelopathies are a group of genetic disorders caused by mutations in the genes  encoding lamins and nuclear envelope-associated […]

Sulfation Roasting Using Bubble Column Reactor — 12p — Allie Lucas Mineral extraction and processing are critical as their products are used in our everyday lives. Traditional methods of sulfide mineral refining such as roasting, […]