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