As more and more people become immune to common communicable diseases, the need for remedies to noncommunicable diseases is growing. One way to solve this issue is to diagnose diseases early. But especially in low income countries, going to a hospital to get a diagnosis can be both expensive and impractical. Point-of-care diagnostics can identify preventable diseases early and at lower costs. Thus and area of research is identifying how effective they are in comparison to traditional testing.

Radios are everywhere, and the demand to send more data over-the-air is increasing. Radio and information bandwidths are fundamentally limited when using transverse electromagnetic waves. However, vortex waves have fundamentally different properties that give them a major theoretical communications advantage. Through multiple experiments and simulations, this project determines the feasibility of vortex waves for radio communication.

This project is studying how an increase in solar in Palo Alto and the bay area can help to prevent us from building solar farms and harming biodiversity in the area. The study will look at the SETO database on solar projects to analyze how much energy is being made, and how much land can be saved by transitioning to using more urban solar.

In today's world we live in such a technologically advanced society where so many of our past problems are fixed due to advances in technology. But our biggest problem, global warming, is hardly being dealt with. For example, contamination from gas cars and their fumes. This is why bans on production of gas cars would offer a solution to a big problem. The effects it would have on the working class would be astronomical and seriously alter things.

Today, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, with a striking effect on one in ten people aged 65 and over. Music therapy (MT) is a non-pharmacological treatment for AD that is particularly significant because, as AD progresses, patients maintain their music memory despite the loss of other cognitive functions. This knowledge begged the question: how frequently is clinical music therapy used to treat Alzheimer’s disease? Is everyone who can benefit from music therapy being exposed to it? These questions will be addressed using case study research that will determine the frequency of music therapy usage in care facilities and explore the underlying reasons, if any, behind resistance against MT. Qualitative data will be gathered through interviews with music therapists and activity directors at care facilities to determine various perspectives on the effectiveness of MT.

Millions of lives were lost during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, we as a nation are fortunate to have vaccines available to people. But what about all of those infected with COVID-19? CRISPR can serve as a treatment method. CRISPR is a phenomenal piece of technology that has the ability to edit genes in target regions and replace them with other genome sequences. This research paper will aim to cover the background of CRISPR, structure of CRISPR and COVID-19 genomes, and lastly whether CRISPR is an effective treatment method.

The Greenland Ice Sheet retreat is a very clear and quantifiable metric by which climate change can be evaluated. Recent studies have suggested that the ice sheet melt will continue to contribute to sea level rise, meaning that mapping the future expectations for changes in the ice sheet is vital. In this study, satellite and aerial imagery of the region around the Jakobshavn Glacier spanning from 1985 to 2020 was loaded into and analyzed in QGIS, with the areas of ice retreat to both the north and the south being mapped out manually. The data analysis indicated that the areas of fastest retreat are closest to the fast-moving marine outlet glacier. A significant acceleration in the retreat of the ice sheet between the two periods was also noted. The study shows that the vicinity to a glacier likely impacts the retreat rate of the ice sheet around it, specifically muting ice-climate feedback further away, a factor which ought to be investigated further in the future to better model such regions.

Patients of Alzheimer's disease can struggle with extreme memory loss that deeply affects them and the people who care about them. Aside from focus on a medical cure, research has shown that music therapy can have behavioral and cognitive benefits and help patients access their autobiographical and episodic memory through its emotional components. This research project uses interviews to perform ethnographic research with care takers and care facilities to investigate a potential relationship between the amount of music exposure and experience and the effectiveness of the music therapy.

Most people who are not speedcubers assume that solving the Rubik’s Cube quickly requires fast turning speeds and the memorization of hundreds of algorithms. Many avid speedcubers argue, however, that these factors are not as important as they are perceived to be. This research project aims to quantitatively analyze the correlations between various speedcubing-related variables to determine what makes a better speedcuber.

Guided by the neurocognitive model of Nightmare Disorder, my research attempts to correlate PTSD and non-PTSD related Nightmare Disorder with several factors. This research project will use database data to look at which brain structures and brain activity patterns are correlated with different types of Nightmare Disorder. This project also collects surveys from adults with chronic nightmares in an attempt to correlate anxiety, mental activity, screen usage, and panic with chronic nightmare severity and with PTSD vs non-PTSD-related nightmares. Hopefully, this study will elucidate the different causes of PTSD and non-PTSD related Nightmare Disorder and lead to better treatment and understanding of the condition.