Current UPRISE Projects

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MORE 2020 PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS COMING SOON!

The following table contains links to the Individual Projects Information:

5-HT2A Receptor Modulation Following Traumatic Brain Injury	Active Flow Control for Aircraft Maneuvering and Control	Advanced High-Speed Imaging Techniques for Future Propulsion Applications
Aeroacoustics of Electrically Propelled Air Vehicles	Analysis of Bose Condensate Dark Matter	Characterization of gingiva for local drug delivery
Characterizing token-to-token production variability in Jamaican Creole- and English-speaking preschoolers: An exploratory study	Computing thermodynamic properties to search for descriptors of surfactant harshness	Controlling Drug Release
Cosmology with the Cosmic Microwave Background	Design and Development of Reference Electrode for Electrochemical Additive Manufacturing	Economic Cases for Experiential Learning
Elucidation of drug-receptor structure for the development of new drugs against brain-eating amoeba, Naegleria fowleri	Improving Adherence in Cervical Cancer Prevention among At-Risk Women: Formative Research	Kinetics of Detergent on Skin
Making Gas to Remove Gas (and Save Tissue!)	MicroRNA-mediated control of neuronal excitability	Minimizing the Energy Exerted by Heart Muscles – A Multi-disciplinary Calculus Project
Modeling of protein-protein interactions during cellular processes	Molecular dynamics simulation for graphene friction	Nanoscale 3D Printing
Paleoecology and Conservation Paleobiology	Regulation of mitochondrial metabolic pathways in pancreatic cancer	Reuse fats, oils and grease (FOGs) as alternative energy
Safe Treatment and Opioid Management Program (STOMP) (2020)	Structural analysis of ADP-ribosylation metabolizing proteins	Targeting the tumor matrix to overcome drug resistance in BRAF mutant melanoma
Thermoelectrics with Large Magnetic Fields	Virtual Reality Simulations & Social Determinants of Health (2020)	Zooming In On the Distant Universe with Gravitational Lensing

Note - "Some projects are multi-disciplinary; a project in one area may be of interest to students from another major. Be sure to look at the projects in related areas to widen your choices."

Contact: Tiffany Grant, Ph.D., UPRISE REU Director (Email: tiffany.grant@uc.edu)