Educational Modules to Broaden Academic Research Cultures (EMBARC)

Educational Modules to Broaden Academic Research Cultures (EMBARC) innovatively leverages Cultural Mismatch Theory to create high-impact mentoring activities and educational modules powerfully linked to eliminating educational disparities and driving transformation at the individual and institutional level toward inclusion, recruitment, and retention of URM community college (CC) students to the biobehavioral research career field...

Developing Case Studies for Undergraduates: Valorization of Fruit and Vegetable By products for New Product Development

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) estimated that one-third of the edible food produced for human consumption is wasted each year, equating to almost 1.3 billion metric tons. In developing and industrialized countries, food losses and waste cost $310 billion and roughly $680 billion each year, respectively. Fruit and vegetable processing industries...

Strengthening Equitable Culturally Responsive Environments" (SECURE) for Student Success": Using a Servingness Model to Support Hispanic and Underrepresented Students

"Strengthening Equitable Culturally Responsive Environments? (SECURE) for Student Success?: Using a Servingness Model to Support Hispanic and Underrepresented Students? is designed to expand the number of Hispanic and underrepresented (URM) students in Art, Health Sciences, Engineering, Computer Science and the STEM disciplines and...

Stand in the wind: Market power reformation during uncertain periods

Economic policy uncertainty affects firm dynamics and profitability, and thus imposes an impact on firm markups and market power. Using quarterly data of the U.S. publicly listed firms over 1985Q1 to 2020Q3, this paper empirically shows a decline of firm markups under an uncertain environment. However, the decrease in average markup does not necessarily imply an increase in market competition due to the heterogeneous effects amo...

Effectiveness of an autonomous vehicle using solar energy for a custom battery

The process of designing and testing a custom lithium battery pack with supplemental solar charging is examined. The design process includes: meeting power consumption requirements, determining the appropriate assembly and wiring method, incorporating a Battery Management System (BMS), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis, experimental testing, determining the appropriate Battery Thermal Management System (BTMS)...

Tank Bottom Corrosion Control Monitoring for Materials Technology & Energy Section

SRNL has an ongoing a project funded by Pipeline Research Council International, Inc. The project involves understanding role of various monitoring methods in integrity management of Aboveground Storage Tank (AST). ASTs are widely used in the oil and gas transmission industry for storing crude oil and related products. The tanks are constructed using A36 grade carbon steel, and tank foundation are made of sand pads...

Project PRISM-Ed (Preparing a Pipeline for Recruitment and Retention of Social Justice and Equity-Minded Deaf Educators)

There is a critical need for highly-qualified educators of deaf students, including those from linguistically, ethnically, and racially minoritized groups. The purpose of Project PRISM-Ed is to implement a pipeline through Deaf Studies into the Deaf Education Preliminary Credential Program at California State University, Northridge. Project PRISM-Ed will recruit, retain, and pr...

Child Development Screening Referral Program with San Fernando Community Health Center and the Institute for Community Health and Wellbeing at California State University, Northridge

Child Development Screening Referral Program with San Fernando Community Health Center and the Institute for Community Health and Wellbeing at California State University, Northridge Goal: Create a quality care network for families of children with identified developmental needs to provide a warm personalize...

Investigating the Disk-Planet Interaction in the HD 163296 System with JWST

We propose funding to analyze the data from the approved JWST/NIRCam observations of the planet-forming disk orbiting the young Herbig Ae star HD 163296. Recent high resolution ALMA observations have unveiled concentric annular gaps in the distribution of mm-sized pebbles at angular distances of 0.1, 0.5, 0.9, 1.5 arcsec from the central star. The two outer dust gaps show depletion also in CO gas, suggesting the possible...