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Are Asian Americans people of color? At the outset of his most famous 1903 essay, W.E.B. Du Bois writes: “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” But in…

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…

Robotic swarm inspection for structures offers a flexible, scalable, and cost-effective solution in comparison to human inspection such as the benefit of being resilient to individual failures,…

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…

In baseball, the goal of the pitcher is to prevent runs. To do so, they must make it difficult for the batter to hit the ball. There are a variety of techniques and methods the pitcher can use to…

Spray charts are a data visualization used in baseball to describe which area of the field hitters have historically hit the ball to. Hitters have unique hitting tendencies for various reasons (e.g.,…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming ubiquitous, yet the lack of transparency in its decision-making process and its value system raises alarms. To address this, my senior thesis combines…

Traditional accounts of Third World interaction with the norm of sovereignty presume that these states complied with the norm by assimilating into a Western-dominated order after decolonization,…

Search and rescue missions are time-sensitive and dangerous tasks that are critical after natural and man-made disasters. In this work, we better robotic systems to improve the success and efficiency…

When an unusual phenomenon crosses our work in the lab, the pressure of academic productivity asks us to ignore it if it doesn't relate directly to our research. I think this arrangement is…