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...

Increasing our Innovation SCOREs: Symbiotic Collaboration of Regional Ecosystems

Resources to engage in science are often inequitably distributed, as described in the recent statement from the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) [1]. The OSTP statement noted that ?minority-serving institutions (MSIs), emerging institutions, and community colleges receive only a small fraction of the science and technology research and development funds available each year.? Closing the funding gap to s...

Improving the Safety of Operations in the Offshore Energy Industry by Reducing its Systemic Risk

Offshore drilling is a substantial source of the world?s oil supply. According to the International Energy Agency, about 30% of the world?s oil production comes from offshore projects, and the global fossil fuel industry will continue to rely on offshore resources and deepwater drilling. In addition to the growing deepwater (and ultra-deepwater) drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and possibly the Atlantic...

Building trust in machine learning and robotics

In this project, we will look into defining various machine learning methods, and its applications into robotic technologies and suggest factors that are required in automation. In industry, trust is key in ensuring acceptance and continuous progress and development. It is hoped that the findings from this research will contribute towards the awareness and importance of technologies on the basis of policies and regulations, to maximize the advanceme...

Statewide Collision Data Analysis, Research Studies, and Ranking Program

The project aims to enhance traffic safety and allocation efficiency of precious safety resources using advanced ranking of statewide collisions, consisting of the regression method and empirical Bayesian framework. In specific, the crash count models are developed for 13 categories among both counties and incorporated cities in California. To facilitate the model development, the raw data will be collected from various sou...

Produce Prescription Project: Ventura County WIC

Introduction: Limited access to sustainable and affordable sources of fresh fruits and vegetables hinders families? ability to grow and thrive in Ventura County (VC). VC's has a thriving agricultural economy, yet 1 in 6 families report being food insecure. While the percentage of families living below the federal poverty limit is 5.5% - about half of the value nationally - 69% of these families are families with children. Purpose: The purpose...