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My presentation uses natural language processing tools to analyze 10,000 lines of reviews of young adult novels from Goodreads. With this method, I hope to gain further insight into why people enjoy…
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May 6th, 2023 Speaker
Louisa Sarofim, UG (2766680) Department
Anthropology
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In October of 1982, a Brazilian and Paraguayan company known as Itaipu Binacional closed the side canals of the Itaipu hydroelectric dam on the Paraná River in Brazil, launching an ambitious…
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May 6th, 2023 Speaker
Coley Rose Martin, UG '23 Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Most tools to assess & diagnose psychological disorders are developed in the West via testing on Western populations, and then used on non-Western populations. We assume these tools are reliable…
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May 5th, 2023 Speaker
Imaan Khasru, UG '23 Department
Psychology
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Recent, dramatic increases in life-threatening self-harm and hospitalizations of young people due to mental disorders has motivated efforts to preemptively identify suffering individuals and connect…
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May 5th, 2023 Speaker
Yubi Mamiya, UG '26 Department
Computer Science
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As the most prevalent chronic disease, dental caries, or tooth decay, is exacerbated by inadequate plaque removal. Oftentimes, people assume that electric toothbrushes are a very efficient way to…
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May 5th, 2023 Speaker
Rachel J. Kulchar, UG Department
Health and Health Policy
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Coral reefs are both icons of biodiversity and global tourist attractions. By combining web-scraped public Instagram data and aerially mapped live coral cover maps across the main Hawaiian Islands,…
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May 4th, 2023 Speaker
Bing Lin, GS Department
Public and International Affairs
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When considering moments of auditory focus in the 19th century novel, rarely does one stop to consider the sonic attention paid to instances of direct speech. Readers instead find their preoccupation…
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May 4th, 2023 Speaker
Clara McWeeny, UG '25 Department
Digital Humanities
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You might have wondered what underlying mechanism and models does the famous ChatGPT, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) chat assistant employs. The T of the GPT, that is the Generative Pre-trained…
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May 4th, 2023 Speaker
Alkin Kaz, UG '23 Department
Electrical Engineering
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There is thorough research proving the hot-hand notion, or the tendency to believe that a successful streak is likely to lead to further success, as a fallacy in sports. This research disproves the…
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May 4th, 2023 Speaker
Jason Ding, UG '25 Department
Council of Science and Technology
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Single-chain nanoparticles are intriguing materials inspired by proteins that consist of a single precursor polymer chain that has collapsed into a stable structure. In many prospective applications,…
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May 4th, 2023 Speaker
Sophia Colmenares, UG '24 Department
Chemical and Biological Engineering
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A baseball game is a series of batter, pitcher matchups. The pitcher seeks to do one of two things: prevent the batter from making contact, or cause the batter to make weak contact, which will lead…
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May 4th, 2023 Speaker
Tony Owens Jr, UG '24 Department
Statistics and Machine Learning
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Explore the fascinating world of historical culinary trends with this engaging video that delves into the New York Public Library's What's on the Menu Database. The video highlights key…
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May 4th, 2023 Speaker
Tenzing Sherpa, UG '26 (4060710) Department
Computer Science
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Pitch tunneling in baseball is when two pitches look the same for most of their trajectory towards home plate, but then move in opposite directions. Pitchers utilize pitch tunneling to try and fool…
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May 4th, 2023 Speaker
Ben Zenker, UG '24 Department
Council of Science and Technology
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In order to examine themes across a century of children’s literature, the Cotsen Children’s Literature (CCL) dataset was curated for this project based on the nineteenth-century catalogue…
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May 4th, 2023 Speaker
AnneMarie Caballero, UG '23 (2262314) Department
Computer Science
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Using a round bat to hit a small round baseball traveling 90+ mph and breaking in unexpected directions is considered the hardest activity in sports. Knowing the speed, break, and location of a pitch…
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May 4th, 2023 Speaker
Atharva Pathak, UG '26 Department
Council on Science and Technology
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Information retrieval (IR) is the task of learning useful ways of representing text documents that allow us to efficiently relevant the most relevant documents for a given query, e.g. by encoding…
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May 4th, 2023 Speaker
Michael Tang, UG '24 (2272401) Department
Computer Science
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