Projects

PROJECTS

Over the last four years, high school students have worked on a wide variety of research projects through the NetSci High program. Table 1 shows the list of project titles, listed in chronological order.

Table 1. List of titles of NetSci High student research projects

2010-11

  • A Comparative Study on the Social Networks of Fictional Characters

  • Academic Achievement and Personal Satisfaction in High School Social Networks

  • Does Facebook Friendship Reflect Real Friendship?

  • Inter-Species Protein-Protein Interaction Network Reveals Protein Interfaces for Conserved Function

  • The Hierarchy of Endothelial Cell Phenotypes

  • Preaching To The Choir? Using Social Networks to Measure the Success of a Message

  • Identification of mRNA Target Sites for siRNA Mediated VAMP Protein Knockdown in Rattus Norvegicus

2011-12

  • A Possible Spread of Academic Success in a High School Network: A Two-Year Study

  • Research on Social Network Analysis from a Younger Generation

2012-13

  • Interactive Simulations and Games for Teaching about Networks

  • Mapping Protein Networks in Three Dimensions

  • Main and North Campus: Are We Really Connected?

  • High School Communication: Electronic or Face-to-Face?

  • An Analysis of the Networks of Product Creation and Trading in the Virtual Economy of Team Fortress 2

2013-14

  • A Network Analysis of Foreign Aid Based on Bias of Political Ideologies

  • Comparing Two Human Disease Networks: Gene-Based and System-Based Perspectives

  • How Does One Become Successful on Reddit.com?

  • Influence at the 1787 Constitutional Convention

  • Quantifying Similarity of Benign and Oncogenic Viral Proteins Using Amino Acid Sequence

  • Quantification of Character and Plot in Contemporary Fiction

  • RedNet: A Different Perspective of Reddit

  • Tracking Tweets for the Superbowl