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Faculty Vocal Recital: Dr. Yi-Lan Niu (2023)
Get PDFSNC Music Department presents: a Faculty Vocal Recital, featuring Dr. Yi-Lan Niu (2023)
Madisyn Brisbane Senior Art Exhibition Portfolio
Get PDFThis is Madisyn Brisbane\u27s Senior Art Portfolio for Spring 2023. This project focuses on breast cancer awareness.https://digitalcommons.snc.edu/artportfolios/1078/thumbnail.jp
Senior Vocal Recital: Benjamin Petropoulos (2023)
Get PDFSNC Music Department presents: a Senior Vocal Recital, featuring Benjamin Petropoulos, Isabella Puchalla, Colton Lemanski, & Hannah Dornfeld (2023)
Honors Recital (2023)
Get PDFSNC Music Department presents: the Honors Recital, also featuring students awarded scholarships (2023)
Visual Communication in Politics
No full textThis research study explores visual communication elements in politics. For decades, campaign logos have been at the forefront of running a well-planned and successful political campaign; party logos have symbolized entire ideologies. This study looks at what elements make these logos effective and ineffective. It was found that these logos subconsciously add or subtract to a politician’s brand and the overall campaign message they are attempting to present. Also, logos may have a much larger impact in local races, where candidate name recognition alone is not enough to trigger any particularly strong feelings toward a candidate. In higher profile elections, the candidates’ names may trigger other associations that would overpower what’s conveyed in a logo. This study explores this topic and discovers more indicators as to what makes branded politics and visual rhetoric effective and impactful.https://digitalcommons.snc.edu/collaborative_presentations/1100/thumbnail.jp
Kinetic Modeling of Dopamine Transport Protein Inhibition by Indole Based Modafinil Analogs Using Rotating Disk Voltammetry
No full textDopamine neurons, which synthesize and release the neurotransmitter dopamine, create the reward circuit in our brains which allows us to feel pleasure and motivates us to repeat pleasurable behaviors. For example, eating a piece of chocolate causes the release of dopamine and reinforces the pleasure associated with chocolate consumption. Other functions of dopamine are regulation of sleep and motor movement.
Presynaptic dopaminergic neurons release dopamine which diffuses across the synaptic cleft and binds to receptors on the receiving (postsynaptic) neuron. The signal is terminated when dopamine is transported back into the pre-synaptic cell that released it by a protein called the dopamine transporter. The dopamine transporter is the target of the therapeutics modafinil (a narcolepsy medication) and Ritalin (an ADHD medication) and the drugs of abuse cocaine and amphetamines. By inhibiting the dopamine transporter, these drugs slow down the reuptake of dopamine, increasing the dopamine signal. Modafinil specifically does this to promote wakefulness in people with sleep disorders. The goal of our project is to use small molecules with structures similar to modafinil (called structural analogs) to see how they affect the rate of reuptake of dopamine. The collected data is analyzed using kinetic models to learn about the dopamine transporter protein.https://digitalcommons.snc.edu/collaborative_presentations/1103/thumbnail.jp
