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  Watershed Analysis of the University of Dayton Campus

  Steven Shattuck

  The project seeks to create a watershed map of the University of Dayton campus through ArcGIS data and techniques. The campus has a network of stormwater drains that output directly to the river, with every area of campus having runoff that goes to specific drains. Using digital elevation model (DEM) data and GPS locations of stormwater drains, the campus will be divided into small parcels or mini watersheds displaying all of the area that flows to each drain. Any rain that falls in these regions will runoff to the drain associated with it. This knowledge could be used in future projects and research to evaluate the water management of the campus.

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  Watershed and Land-use Analysis in Harrison Township using ArcPro

  Sammy Miller

  The purpose of this project is to provide the planner(s) within the Harrison Township Government with a resource about their water systems and land-use to assist them in future decision-making processes. This includes creating a map, using ArcGIS ArcPro, that incorporates the delineation of watersheds, land-use information, and socioeconomic data. Locations of industries with National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permits are also identified to indicate areas where the water quality could be negatively impacted. Special attention is given to watersheds that contain these industries. Furthermore, for these specific watersheds, the fraction of different types of land-use is calculated. Lastly, socioeconomic data is included in another layer to provide suggestions of potential environmental justice issues within the watersheds that have a larger percentage of industrial land usage.

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  Weather Simulation in Virtual City

  Umang Jain

  VR is a tool for showcasing urban designs while highlighting how people and the environment will be affected by their conversation. It can simulate these scenarios with VR technology and identify improvements and necessary changes. From traffic videos, this project investigates the detrimental impacts of weather conditions, specifically heavy rain and flooding, on their infrastructure and livelihoods. Through the use of a virtual city model, this project will simulate the various effects of rain and flooding on the city's transportation systems, and daily activities of its residents. By utilizing this virtual model, the project aims to provide valuable insights into how such extreme weather events can be better managed and mitigated in the future.

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  Website monitoring system

  Nikhil Suresh

  Develop a web application that allows users to monitor website status. The main functions of the application include the following:1) Monitor the website status2) Monitor the SSL Certificate expiration date3) Alert if the system goes down4) Dashboard to visualize the status and downtime.

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  What's in the Waste? Adventures of a Dumpster Diver

  Cassie Austin

  Did you know that UD generates over 3000 tons of waste each year? Join MPA Graduate Student Cassie Austin to learn about her journey last semester with "dumpster diving" through campus waste audits at UD and what the findings say about what can be done to reduce our waste footprint on campus.

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  When is Peace Not Peace? Conflict is an Opportunity for Deepening Relationships

  Grace Sutter, Robin Park, John East

  Drawing on the work of Kazu Haga, a Buddhist who offers training in Kingian nonviolence, this poster will describe ways conflict can be transformed into an occasion for uncovering obstacles and building deeper connections. In the face of so much conflict among us, what changes in ourselves and in our education will prepare us to engage conflict constructively?

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  Which Wounds Will be Redeemed? The Role of Disability, Suffering, and the Resurrection in Teresa of Avila's Spirituality

  Elise Abshire

  The objective of my presentation, "Which Wounds Will be Redeemed? The Role of Disability, Suffering, and the Resurrection in Teresa of Avila's Spirituality," is to engage in an historical investigation of redemptive suffering and Resurrected woundedness, especially for persons with disabilities. Teresa of Avila, with her embodiment of suffering, provides a first-hand example of the spiritual tension experienced when living with a disability. From the perspective of Teresa, her body was physically limiting her from fully serving God; "que servía mucho más a Dios con la salud" ["I would be able to serve God much better if I were in good health"] (Autobiography VI: 5). Thus, does disability or woundedness hinder one's relationship with God? Teresa reveals that she wishes her body was healed in order to serve God in a greater way. The main aspect of this project is to present the tension between these two approaches to suffering happening within the same person with special consideration of her early modern European social context. After setting a Christological foundation, I will combine the voice of Teresa of Avila with contemporary thinkers, such as Paul Gondreau and Miguel Romero, to arrive at the present conversation in theological disability studies. Through providing Teresa of Avila's first-hand account of embodiment of suffering with a disability while striving to live a spiritual life, this paper can help to fill a lacuna in current research on this historical religious woman and Resurrected bodies, suffering, and woundedness in disability.

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  Yorkie dependent transcriptional network promotes tumor growth

  Arushi Rai; other authors: Indrayani Waghmare, Amit Singh, Madhuri Kango-Singh

  The Hippo pathway effector, Yorkie (Yki) is a key mediator of signaling interactions and transcriptional addictions in tumor cells and presents an attractive opportunity to study transcriptional dependencies in cancer cells. The RasV12 scrib-/- tumor mosaic model, a well-established model, shows activation of oncogenic Ras in the background of impaired apical-basal polarity. Previously, we have shown that in RasV12, scrib-/- cells Wingless (Wg) act upstream of Caspases, JNK and Yki and via its canonical and non-canonical pathways to interact with Yki to regulate the development and cancer growth. Our goal is to understand further how the two evolutionarily conserved signaling pathways i.e., Hippo and Wingless crosstalk and interact with each other to regulate tumor growth using the RasV12, scrib-/- tumor model in Drosophila imaginal discs. Our data showed that the wg transcriptional reporters and wg transcript levels both are upregulated in RasV12, scrib-/- cells. In other contexts, wg is shown as a transcriptional target of Yki. Therefore, we will test for (a) the effects of Yorkie protein, the main effector molecule of the Hippo pathway, on the transcription and expression of Wg and other Wg pathway components by reporter assays, and qRT-PCR- based approaches, and (b) the effect of wg pathway components (frizzled, TCF) on the intrinsic wingless signaling and also the growth of RasV12, scrib-/- tumor (c)the effect of feedback interactions that promote tumorigenesis using genetic epistasis-, and immunohistochemistry-based approaches. Here, we present our progress on the organization of the molecular network involving Wingless and Yorkie.

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  Youth, Violence, and the Reproduction of Social Inequalities

  Caroline Hauer, Ariana Adkins, Melissa Moore

  Violence -- whether physical or rhetorical -- is a key mechanism by which social groups navigate their status and power. Groups with less power tend to experience disproportionate rates of violence. In this panel, presenters explore the social conditions in which violence emerges; how individuals are impacted and react to violence; and how violence is represented in both mainstream and social media outlets. The first paper investigates how children who experience abuse or trauma go on to enact aggressive behaviors themselves. The second paper investigates how media representations of violent crime committed by American juveniles have evolved since 1980. The third paper investigates inter-generational discourse on TikTok and how adversarial group dynamics contribute to current polarized and politicized identity-based rhetoric on the Internet. Each of these papers is based on original social science research undertaken by presenters for the sociology senior capstone. Taken together, the papers reveal the myriad ways that violence and conflicts emerge in social interactions. This panel should be of interest to folks who are interested in thinking through ways to build a more safe, peaceful, and democratic society.