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‘Reading the Cultural Landscape’ in the ‘Birthplace’ of Modern Race/Racism: Using hooks to Invite Students in as Critical Knowledge Producers & Co-conspirators
Get PDFAnalysis of Gene Expression Investigating Biology Underlying High Regenerative Ability of Marine Invertebrate Botrylloides violaceus
Get PDFThe marine invertebrate Botrylloides violaceus is a species of tunicate found in Morro Bay, CA with the extraordinary ability to regenerate its whole body. Furthermore, tunicates are the closest known relatives to vertebrates. Due to this organism\u27s regenerative ability and relationship to vertebrates, it is of great interest to investigate the underlying mechanisms of regeneration and review its potential applications to related vertebrate organisms, including humans. The genome of B. violaceus was sequenced and assembled at Cal Poly, SLO which allowed for the proposed experiments to analyze gene expression, a field called transcriptomics. Transcriptomics tells us how the organism is using the genes in its genome by providing us with the data on the mRNA transcripts it produces at a given point in time. This yields functional data that may help answer our questions regarding regeneration. This proposal was a part of a larger project on this organism that involved sequencing and assembling its genome. This project was led by Dr. Elena Keeling with the collaboration of Dr. Jean Davidson, advising in transcriptomics as well as bioinformatics, and additionally with Dr. Paul Anderson, advising in computer science and bioinformatics.
The ultimate project outcomes were to establish protocols for RNA isolation and collect high quality RNA to lay the foundation for future experiments involving these techniques, conduct RNA sequencing to support the genomic data we already have and obtain sequence information on target genes involved in regeneration, and perform qPCR experiments on regenerating specimens to see how mRNA levels change over time. We completed 2/3 of these major aims
ReFridge App Concept
Get PDFReFridge is an app with the goal of helping reduce household food waste. When a grocery receipt is scanned, the app creates an organized fridge inventory that will help decrease the amount of food that is thrown out. The user will receive custom expiration reminders and suggested recipes while using meal prepping calendars and personalized shopping lists. Buying, cooking and consuming food will become more efficient and users will experience an increase in healthy and regulated eating habits
Giuseppe\u27s Rebrand
Get PDFFor this project, I will be working to update the brand image for Giuseppe\u27s Cucina Rustica, an Italian restaurant local to San Luis Obispo. The goal of my project is to help create a brand identity that stays consistent throughout all customer touch points and streamlines branding processes for the future. I am creating a comprehensive brand guide, a new logo, take-out packaging designs, as well as a menu refresh with a new look for higher readability
Spotify: The Addiction
Get PDFThe redesign of the Swedish digital music streaming service called Spotify gives it the potential to play an even larger role in the world by becoming its own social media platform. Even with Spotify\u27s successes, Spotify currently still lacks the best social experience because of the limited ability to share music within the mobile app.
A redesign of the Spotify app offers interaction opportunities between users to make it a solid form of social media and a stronger competitor to the rising TikTok app. Combined with user experience criteria and new visualizations, I was able to build a prototype that enables friends and followers to connect with each other in the Spotify app. With the creation of new pages and social features, this project\u27s redesign of Spotify transformed the way users can connect on the app
SLO Coffee Co.
Get PDFSLO Coffee Co. is a fictional coffee brand based out of San Luis Obispo, California. Specifically, I focus on the creation of a comprehensive, intentional brand that includes a logo, the designs of three coffee bags, and an Instagram page, all of which are emphasized by grounding a brand through beautiful and deliberate graphics. SLO Coffee Co. branding targets a younger demographic and residents of San Luis Obispo. This is achieved through the implementation of brighter colors, fun and playful typefaces, and graphics that communicate the essence of San Luis Obispo and beloved local spots.
A local coffee brand based out of San Luis Obispo capitalizes on the demographic of the city. With the abundance of cafes around San Luis Obispo, along with people’s general widespread love of coffee, it is evident that there is substantial community of coffee drinkers. More generally, Californians exhibit a particular propensity for purchasing coffee, bolstered by widespread love and dependence
Phone Microwave
Get PDFThis project involves the installation of remote-control capabilities in an antique 1980s microwave, effectively turning the microwave into a “smart” device. While preserving the original functionality of the microwave, a combination of software and hardware components allows for remote microwave operations. The microwave can be remotely operated by calling the built-in number, and more advanced settings and options can be utilized by texting. The microwave is also secured against unauthorized use with the addition of a PIN code that is required to operate the device
GhostParty Video game
Get PDFGhostParty is a Unity game that uses a MongoDB database to store players\u27 gameplay values. These values are used to create Ghosts that players can compete with in various mini-games. I found that this form of multiplayer using ghosts can create a good gameplay experience without live multiplayer interactions
Shelfaware: Accelerating Collaborative Awareness with Shelf CRDT
Get PDFCollaboration has become a key feature of modern software, allowing teams to work together effectively in real-time while in different locations. In order for a user to communicate their intention to several distributed peers, computing devices must exchange high-frequency updates with transient metadata like mouse position, text range highlights, and temporary comments. Current peer-to-peer awareness solutions have high time and space complexity due to the ever-expanding logs that each client must maintain in order to ensure robust collaboration in eventually consistent environments. This paper proposes an awareness Conflict-Free Replicated Data Type (CRDT) library that provides the tooling to support an eventually consistent, decentralized, and robust multi-user collaborative environment. Our library is tuned for rapid iterative updates that communicate fine-grained user actions across a network of collaborators. Our approach holds memory constant for subsequent writes to an existing key on a shared resource and completely prunes stale data from shared documents. These features allow us to keep the CRDT\u27s memory footprint small, making it a feasible solution for memory constrained applications. Results show that our CRDT implementation is comparable to or exceeds the performance of similar data structures in high-frequency read/write scenarios
Assessing the Utility of Procedural Modeling for the Urban Planning Discipline: CityEngine and Missing Middle Housing
Get PDFIn recent years, procedural modeling techniques have been introduced to the urban planning discipline. By enabling the quick generation of design alternatives, these methods have the potential to expedite the public participation process. In this study, we explore ArcGIS CityEngine, an Esri procedural modeling software, and its application for depicting new missing middle housing developments in San Luis Obispo, California. Missing middle housing is an abstract planning concept and the public may benefit from 3D visualizations of the typology contextualized within their own neighborhood. To this end, we procedurally model two existing missing middle developments in San Luis Obispo and transfer them to three alternative contexts. Our team consists of two planning students with no programming background, granting us a relevant perspective on the experience for planning professionals. Through this exercise, we determined that procedural modeling can accelerate the design process when applied to a fitting scenario after the initial training period is complete