Mixed-methods evaluation of an NSF network-of-networks program using surveys, focus groups, and bibliometric and co-authorship network analysis

Survey-based study on variation in olfactory ability and odor awareness due to race, SES, health, and environment.

Dental fluctuating asymmetry analysis of wild Nigerian olive baboons examining sex differences and developmental stress across life history stages.

Developmental stress markers in prehistoric skeletal remains from northwest Kyushu test whether persistent hunter-gatherers maintained population health after agricultural expansion.

Project Portfolio for Kara C. Hoover (PhD)

Compares federal R&D funding dependency across all Carnegie doctoral tiers using NSF HERD and Carnegie Classification data from 2010 to 2024

Half-century analysis of federal R&D funding dependency at U.S. R1 universities using HERD survey data, with state-level animated choropleth and ARIMA forecast.

Governed retrieval-augmented assistant answering federal AI governance questions from a curated NIST and executive-order corpus, with citation, refusal guardrails, and audit logging.

Next-word prediction Shiny app using Stupid Backoff n-grams trained on a 70% SwiftKey corpus sample, originally built in 2021 and revised in 2026

Field-level analysis of federal R&D funding dependency at R1 universities across 24 S&E disciplines using HERD survey data from 1974 to 2024.

Bibliometric framework for benchmarking research impact across countries and fields of research.

Random forest and gradient boosting models applied to wearable accelerometer data classify bicep curl form into correct and common error categories.

Evidence-based DEI policy framework for international scientific organizations, developed from literature review, case study, and bibliometric review.

Online survey of festival-goers examining how sex, experience, and sexual orientation shape safety perceptions and attitudes toward surveillance and policing at music festivals.

Reconstructing olfactory receptor repertoires across the Homo lineage using ancient DNA as templates for functional odorant receptor expression assays.

Childhood developmental stress across 62 years in bush-living Hadza hunter-gatherers reveals sex-based health trends linked to remote market integration.

Occipital bone morphology across hunter-gatherer, horticultural, and agricultural skeletal collections reveals systematic variation in biomechanical loading by subsistence type and sex.

Field and lab study of odor identification in real-world environments, combining a published study with new analysis.

GLM analysis of skeletal health markers from three colonial-era Ryukyu burial sites tests whether distance from Japanese colonial centers shaped health outcomes by geography and sex.

Few-shot prompt engineering for biometric sensor classification -- parameter optimization across Temperature, Top-K, and Top-P via AWS Bedrock.

Train a binary classifier to distinguish genuine face images from morphed (blended) images and understand presentation attack detection workflows.

Serverless document validation and auditing pipeline using Claude 3 Haiku via AWS Bedrock.

Evaluate whether a state-of-the-art face recognition model (FaceNet) shows performance disparities across race, gender, and age.

Spatial and temporal analysis of severe weather events identifies storm and flood types with the greatest fatality, injury, and property damage impacts across the US.

Health care worker density positively impacts life expectancy outcomes by up to a year. Oral health is often neglected health due to lack of access to a provider and costs even though poor oral hea…

QGIS mapping of terrorism attacks within primate habitats in sub-Saharan Africa shows a concentration in Africa's poorest, least democratic regions.

QGIS mapping of GTD terrorism data (China, 2010--2018) reveals geographic concentration of attacks in Uyghur-majority regions.