The primary research goal is to investigate any possible correlations between mindfulness practices and students’ relationship with smartphones and social media. A second project aims to create an application and database to match patients in Puerto Rico with mental health resources. A third project involves designing a course that will ultimate result in a redesign of the lobby of the Fiske Planetarium to contain on exhibit on solar magnetism.
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mindfulness, social media, smartphones, meditation, stress, education, empathy,
