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The Role of Active Vitamin D on Reserved Intestinal Stem Cells
Jun Ru Chen ’29 — Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a key risk factor for colorectal cancer, affects 2.39 million Americans and has no effective treatment. Current attempts include steroidal immunosuppressants,…
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Restoring Resolution in Accelerated FLAIR MRI via U-Net Super Resolution
Eugene Joo ’27 — Accelerated MRI scanning often results in lower resolution, introducing image distortions and loss of critical details. This study explores the application of machine learning to super-resolve…
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High-Frame-Rate Doppler Ultrasound with Contrast Agents Enables Deep Vein Thrombosis Delineation
Jiaming Sun ‘27, Jacob Elliot, Julianna Simon — Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) affects approximately 1 to 2 per 1,000 individuals each year and remains a leading cause of pulmonary embolism-related…
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Cripping Literature through Reparative Reading: Gender, Disability, and the Case for Symbiosis
Alexis Bentz ‘24 — How can literature simultaneously reinforce harmful ideas about disability and offer opportunities to challenge them? This paper examines the intersections of disability and gender in Charlotte…
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Outside the Scope: Tracing the Impacts of Intersectionality’s Shift from the Academic to the Public
Siobhan Davenport ‘25 — How did intersectionality move from an academic framework into mainstream public conversation? This paper traces the evolution of intersectionality from Black feminist legal scholarship into digital…
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Ghosts, Gays, and Guillotines: Giovanni’s Room as a Baldwinian Gothic
Jordan Spector ‘25 — What makes Giovanni’s Room feel so distinctly Gothic? This paper examines James Baldwin’s novel alongside the Victorian Gothic tradition, exploring ghosts, monsters, haunting, and bodily possession…
