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The Prevalence and Use of Pug Mills in 18th Century Tidewater, Virginia
By Chloe Martin Faculty advisors: Dr. Michael Spencer and Dr. Andrea Smith 3:00-3:50pm, HCC 328 The topic of this project is the prevalence and use of pug mills in the 18th century in Virginia. A pug mill is an alternate method of mixing the clay used in brickmaking that is often considered to be a…
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A Look into the Preservation of Virginia’s African American Cemeteries
By Megan Riley Faculty advisor: Dr. Andrea Smith 3:00-3:50pm, HCC 328 This presentation will cover the research I have done on historic African American cemeteries in Virginia. First, I will discuss the preservation of cemeteries as a whole: how it is done, who does it, and why should people care. Next, I will discuss some…
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Documenting the Historic Fabric of Downtown Fredericksburg
By Anna White Faculty advisor: Dr. Michael Spencer 3:00-3:50pm, HCC 328 One of the best ways to learn about people from the past is to look at the everyday material culture that shaped people’s lives. The structures that comprise the built environment are an important part of the material culture used to study past society.…
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Arcade TV: A Mixed-Reality Experience
By Madyson May Faculty advisor: Dr. Jason Robinson 3:00-3:50pm, HCC 328 Taking inspiration from previous projection-based works such as Christopher Schardt’s 2019 “Nova” exhibit and Walt Disney World’s “Minnie and Mickey’s Runaway Railway,” Arcade TV aims to immerse audiences in a way that brings the digital to the physical plane. The project is a mixed-reality art piece that…
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The Relic Abundance of Dark Matter and Indirect Detection
By Abigail Swanson Faculty mentor: Dr. Desmond Villalba 2:00-2:50pm, HCC 329 We analyzed the total relic abundance of dark matter using the Boltzmann equation over the course of three different time periods. Overall, we found that regardless of the model used for mass values of dark matter and thermal cross-section the relic abundance remains constant…
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Machine Learning For Wind Power Generation Prediction from Turbine Data
By Clark Saben Faculty mentor: Dr. Desmond Villalba 2:00-2:50pm, HCC 329 Machine learning (ML) in physics has become a powerful tool for big data analysis in the last decade. ML offers an effective way to discover patterns from large input vectors when a suitable architecture is applied to a given data type. This work investigates…
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Quantification of capsaicin and ihydrocapsaicin content in potentially the hottest beer using HPLC analysis
By Valerie B. Ebenki Faculty mentor: Dr. Sarah Smith 2:00-2:50pm, HCC 329 Signal One 2.0 Beer from the Maltese Brewing is a candidate for the world’s hottest beer infusing approximately 500 Carolina Reaper chilies. The two capsaicinoids involved in over 90% of the heat in hot peppers are capsaicin and dihydrocapsaicin. Thus, the primary objective…
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Effects of Voluntary Aerobic Exercise on BDNF in CD-1 Mice Hippocampi and Memory
By Jessica Mimms, Raquel Novoa-Litchford, Emma Friedrich, Amani Guillaume Faculty Mentor: Dr. Parrish Waters 10:00-10:50am, HCC 329 Physical exercise increases brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), a molecule important for synaptic plasticity and learning and memory. This compelled us to examine how aerobic exercise may influence BDNF in the hippocampus and amygdala. We found that aerobically exercised…
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“Effects of High Sugar and High Fat Diets on BDNF in the Hippocampus and Prefrontal Cortex on Working Memory in Mice.”
By Mariana Haugh, Olivia Casey, Ayana Jefferson, Rogelio Santiago Faculty mentor: Dr. Parrish Waters 10:00-10:50am, HCC 329 The western diet has led to extremely high rates of obesity and diabetes, which in addition to their metabolic effects, also have cognitive symptoms. To explore the effects of high sugar and high fat diets on behavior and…
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Arabic in the Context of Emergency Medicine
By Jermaine Mason Faculty mentor: Professor Maysoon Al-Sayed 9:00-9:50am, HCC 328 From volunteering in the Emergency Medical Services as an Emergency MedicalTechnician, otherwise known as an EMT, one important thing I have learned about patient care is that gathering information from and connecting with your patients. In doing this, you are providing your patient with…
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Strangers’ Like Me: Evaluating and Selecting LGBTQ+ Children’s Literature
By Katherine Conner Faculty mentors: Dr. Melissa Wells, Dr. Miriam Liss, Professor Kate Haffey 10:00-10:50am, HCC 327 LGBTQ+ students experience bullying, depression, anxiety, and suicidality at higher rates than their non-LGBTQ+ peers (GLSEN & Harrison Interactive, 2012). One reason this may occur is because many teachers are not equipped to discuss diverse sexual identities, inadvertently…
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Prometheus & the Body Beautiful: Arno Breker and the Weaponization of the Greco-Roman Tradition in the Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung
By Sophia Maldonado Faculty mentor: Dr. Joe Romero 9:00-9:50am HCC 329 During the Third Reich (1933-1945), Hitler and the Nazis turned to the visual arts as a tool for propaganda to promote Hitler’s conception of the ideal people, i.e. the ‘Aryan’ race. Rooted in a calculate understanding of Greco-Roman civilization and culture, this conception of…
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Electromagnetism, Maxwell’s Equation Reformulations and DeRham Theory in Electromagnetism
By Zoe Rafter Faculty mentor: Dr. Yuan Jen Chiang 10:00-10:50am, HCC 329 Maxwell’s equations showed that two different forces, Electricity and Magnetism, are two different aspects of the same Electromagnetic field. Maxwell’s theory also predicted the relativity of light in inertial frames, and the symmetries that connect the Electric and Magnetic forces, space, time, energy,…
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Power of Appeal: How Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Grabbed the Media’s Attention
By Sally Burkley Faculty mentor: Dr. Stephen Farnsworth 10:00-10:50am, HCC 327 National media coverage of individual Congressional members is generally sparse. The House and Senate are covered as a whole or via chamber’s leadership rather than articles about individual members and their interests. Therefore, if a congressional member wishes to be heard they generally need…
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The Medical Policing of Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Adults
By Brie Hawkins Faculty mentor: Dr. Tracy Citeroni 10:00-10:50am, HCC 327 This research aims to better understand the discriminatory health care experiences of transgender and gender nonconforming adults. Conducted through a non-positivist sociological methodology, a primary objective of this research is to uplift transgender and other gender nonconforming voices through a study of lived, personal…
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Encountering Hades: The Appearance of Hades in Archaic and Classical Greek Art and Literature
By Madeleine Almand Faculty mentor: Dr. Joe Romero 9:00-9:50am HCC 329 Mythos from ancient Greek and Roman religions has been popular source material for modern adaptations for the past several decades. However, these adaptations are filled with modern bias and interpretation of their original texts and often differ greatly from the meaning of the ancient…
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Lie Groups, Manifolds, Gauge Fields, and Yang-Mills Equations
By Matthew O’Cadiz Faculty mentor: Dr. Yuan-Jen Chiang 10:00-10:50am, HCC 329 We begin by amalgamating Differential Geometry and Group theory and discuss the importance of symmetry in Mathematical Physics. Moreover, we generalize differentiation in the tangent space of a Manifold into the Connection of the Vector Bundle of tangent spaces. We then discuss the Gauge…
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Political Mobilization in the Garment Industry: A Comparison of Bangladesh and Vietnam
By Anna Bedal Faculty mentor: Dr. Surupa Gupta 10:00-10:50am, HCC 327 My research project is called “Political Mobilization in the Garment Industry: A Comparison of Bangladesh and Vietnam.” I produced this research as part of an independent study with Dr. Gupta in spring of 2022. My research examines the triangular relationship between the garment industry,…
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The Junta de Damas in Wikipedia
By Madeline Killian, Clare Lewis, Julia May, and Liliana Ramirez Faculty advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Lewis 9:00-9:50am, HCC 328 The English Wikipedia page for the Junta de Damas, a century women’s civic group in Spain founded in 1787, was lacking a sufficient amount of information when compared to the Spanish Wikipedia page for the group. The…
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URES 197: Disability and Art History for Undergraduate Research and Fellow Students
By Maya Kirkpatrick, and Mario Martinez Faculty mentor: Dr. Julia DeLancey 9:00-9:50am HCC 327 The aim of this project was to develop a chapter in the style of Anne D’Alleva’s Methods and Theories of Art History, a seminal text in the ARTH 303: Methods of Art History course. D’Alleva’s text provides an introduction and overview…
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Youth protest in East Germany on and off the streets
By Charles Walsh Faculty mentor: Dr. Marcel Rotter 9:00-9:50am HCC 327 This talk will present a website that was created as final project for the course German 485 “The Wall – a Concrete History.” It discusses the different ways in which young people in East Germany protested the government. The motivation for protest arose not…
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The East-German apartment construction project
By Katelyn Abbott Faculty mentor: Dr. Marcel Rotter 9:00-9:50am HCC 327 This talk will present a website that was created as final project for the course German 485 “The Wall – a Concrete History.” It discusses the East German communist party’s apartment construction project that had profound influence on the cityscapes of numerous towns. Announced…
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Reception of Classical Material in the Argument of Charles Loyseau’s Traité des Ordres et Simples Dignités
By Matthew Nelson Faculty mentor: Dr. Joe Romero 9:00-9:50am HCC 329 Charles Loyseau (1564-1627) was a French jurist who wrote during the reigns of Henry IV and Louis XIII – the first two kings of the Bourbon dynasty. Throughout his career, Loyseau wrote several argumentative treatises either contesting royal edicts or supporting royal law against…
