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Digital Exhibition Platforms for Worcester Historical Museum
The Worcester Historical Museum’s (WHM) Fuller Gallery of Industrial History is outdated, and the museum wants to redesign it in a way that makes it more engaging and immersive. Our group investigated different digital technologies that had the potential to achieve WHM’s vision. We chose three pieces of software for an in-depth investigation: OnCell, Open Exhibits, and TAP. We found OnCell to be easy to use and quick to deploy, while doing a good job of enhancing the exhibit. Open Exhibits has potential, but needs more work to fully develop. Lastly, we found TAP to be outdated, unsupported, and buggy. We expect this work to be helpful to the WHM as they look toward the future of their gallery, and expect it to serve as a starting point for future research into digital options for the WHM
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High-throughput Maturation of Engineered Human Skeletal Muscle Tissue
As pharmaceutical spending increases, the need for predictive disease models is ever rising. Tissue-engineered skeletal muscle (TESM) could offer functional units of human skeletal muscle tissue for high-throughput drug screening and may circumnavigate the non-predictive nature of most traditional preclinical model systems for musculoskeletal diseases. However, current TESM constructs are immature and lack biomimicry to native tissue. Tissue maturation strategies such as mechanical and electrical stimulation have been employed in an effort to improve biomimicry, and have been demonstrated to improve myofiber alignment, protein expression, and contractile ability. In this MQP, a device was designed to mechanically and electrically stimulate TESM constructs in a high-throughput manner