College students’ lives have always been known to be stressful, due to exams, affecting them even after they finish their academic journey. This research studied University of Wisconsin-Superior students’ physiological and perceived stress. The goal of this research was to look at if college students can accurately perceive their stress by comparing it to their physiological stress, how exams affect students’ perceived stress, and how exams affect students’ physiological stress. Participants were asked to complete surveys to quantify their perceived stress levels and an electrocardiogram to determine their physiological stress 3 days pre-exam, the day of an exam, and 3 days post-exam. The data was then analyzed and subdivided into gender and age groups to look for trends among participants. Results indicated that participants have higher levels of physiological and perceived stress on the day of the exam compared to either baseline or post-exam stress levels. Furthermore, female participants more accurately perceived their physiological stress than male participants. While participants identified many factors that influenced their stress levels on all three testing days, course exams clearly contributed to the perceived and physiological stress that they were feeling as indicated by the significant changes seen between exam and post-exam testing days.

In order to begin the research process, one must first gather previous findings, and gain knowledge on what has already been completed. The topic at hand is the effects of caffeine on autonomic modulation and vagal tone activity during, or after resistance exercise is completed. The importance of these studies is to see if caffeine enhances performance and reduces fatigue after and during resistance exercise. A common way to organize your sources is by using a reference management software. In this case, Zotero is used. 20 articles were found that explore how different caffeinated drinks and pills can affect different groups of people. After reviewing the articles, they were organized into categories. Those categories were articles that focussed on: women and men vs arterial stiffness and vagal tone, A literature table was then created in order to organize the more important information from each article, This included the title, date and authors, subjects, methods, results, and conclusions. Each article was critically evaluated using specific criteria.

WD repeat-containing protein 5 is a highly conserved protein encoded by the WDR5 gene. It has been linked to and is responsible for a variety of cellular processes including, cell cycle progression, signal transduction, apoptosis, and gene regulation. There has been much research as to WDR5’s function in a cell, particularly one that establishes that WDR5 is involved in the process of a lethal nucleolar stress response in sensitive cell lines. Because of its involvement in this process, WDR5 inhibition holds potential as an anti-cancer strategy. The mammalian genome encodes a WDR5 retrogene yet there have not been any studies on this specific gene. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect whether this retrogene affects WDR5 function, specifically if it inhibits WDR5 expression. This study may reveal a novel cellular mechanism for regulating WDR5 and has potential therapeutic applications.