Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignancy, with an incidence that has been rising rapidly since the early 1990’s, and is the fastest increasing cancer in both men and women1 . An estimated 64,300 cases are ...

This honors thesis focuses on the “etiological challenge” in epistemology. Roughly, that challenge says: “A person cannot justifiably hold ideological beliefs given the contingency of these beliefs on irrelevant or biasing ...

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the most common neoplasm of the pancreas. Despite its low frequency of 6-12 people per 100,000 per year, it is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States. ...

Lung cancer is the second most occurring cancer in the United States, behind breast cancer, but it is by far the leading cause of death out of all types of cancer. As lung cancer develops quickly, early detection is ...

“Aye be whaur/Extremes meet,” Hugh MacDiarmid’s Drunk Man declared in his seminal poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle.1 “[I]t’s the only way I ken/To dodge the curst conceit o’ bein’ richt/That damns the vast majority ...

We consider a charged ring probed by the tip sensor of an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and present a method to measure, from the force-vs.-separation curve, the charge and size of the ring. A number of systems of nano- ...

Crystallizing proteins is challenging because it entails selecting appropriately a myriad of different variables. One of these variables is the type of precipitant used. Our lab uses a unique approach of using chiral ...

he buzzer rings. Two wrestlers in the midst of an intense match take a pause from their competition with each other after the two minutes of the first period have expired. They look up to the referee to receive instructions ...

Previous research in Prof. Barrios-Landeros lab has shown that Cu (I) acetate complexes can successfully promote the cross coupling of aryl halides with carboxylates to make aryl esters. The reaction proceeds by a sequence ...

The 70th Regular Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 70) convened at the UN Headquarters in New York on the 15th of September 2015. Barack Obama, President of the United States, reflecting on the achievements of the ...