• “I’m Here to Understand You”: The Roles of the First, Second, and Third-Person Perspectives in Empathy 

  Breit, Julianna (2023)

  The project of empathy marks a long-standing debate between Theory of Mind defenders and phenomenologists. While they differ on their mechanisms of empathy, their research generally circles around the same question, “Do ...

• Time Course of Metabolic Shifts in Cartilage Explants Exposed to Short-Term Simulated Microgravity 

  Houske, Eden (2023)

  Abnormal mechanical joint loading leads to an imbalance in chondrocyte metabolism that results in cartilage degeneration – a hallmark of osteoarthritis (OA). Microgravity exposure in space significantly reduces mechanical ...

• Meaning, Morality, and the Good: Articulating the Self through Nietzsche, Sartre, Taylor, and Murdoch 

  Gold, Greyson (2023)

  In this paper, I seek to establish a Best Account of the self as it relates to two of the self’s fundamental components, meaning and morality. Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Paul Sartre’s phenomenological accounts of the ...

• Going Full Circle: How to Implement Circular Economy 

  Rodriguez Fernandez, Javier (2023)

  In society’s quest for progress in every single aspect of life, humanity has clearly pushed the boundaries of what can be exploited out of nature past the limit in the last few years, which has resulted in severe climate ...

• Beating the Pandemic: A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Cooperative Board Game Strategy 

  Jarman, Anna (2023)

  Pandemic: Hot Zone - North America is an intricate board game in which players work together to treat disease and research cures for those diseases [3]. The game is part strategy and part luck. In this project we attempt ...

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