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Meta Warrick Fuller and the Synthesis of Feminist and African American Sculpture
By Maya Kirkpatrick The Black Female image stands as the most politically charged and symbolically powerful subject in American Art. She has once been used as a tool to degrade and control African American women and their bodies, and now represents resilience and empowerment to a community. Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller is the first African…
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Performative Disability: The Objectification of Atypical Physiognomy in the Self-Portraits of Egon Schiele
By Sophia Maldonado By the early-twentieth century, developments in medicine and psychology tremendously influenced the visual arts. From the medical photography of the Salpêtrière to the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud, the cultural attitudes and understandings of illnesses and treatments were available to artists whose work engaged with the medical community during this time. The…
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Refashioning the Classical Body as the Modern Body:The Venus de Milo, Disability Aesthetics, and Disabled Women’s Experiences
By Mario Martinez The Classical body’s grasp on art history has never faded, from antiquity, through the renaissance, to modernity. Excluding the avant-garde movements during the first decade of the twentieth century, a general trend in modern art has been to refashion the Classical body as the modern body. The latter bloomed in post-World War…
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Analyzing Soccer Player Tendencies: Applications to the Goalkeeper and Passing
By Steven Deverteuil Faculty advisor: Prashant Chandrasekar 11:00-11:50am HCC 328 Background Player analysis is an integral aspect of the sports analytics world. Player analysis is useful for coaches, scouts, and players alike for enhancing player and team performance. Notably, analysis of player tendencies may lead to player action modeling — a tool which can provide…
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USING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TO INCREASE REPROCDUCIBILITY IN A PACKED BED COLUMN
By Docia Atanda Faculty advisor: Dr. Sarah Smith Additive manufacturing (3D printing) is a transformative approach to industrial production that uses computer aided design (CAD) software to direct hardware to deposit material layer upon layer to deposit material in precise geometric shapes to yield lighter, more complex, and low-cost designs with increased reproducibility. One area…
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Optimization of Adsorption of Methylene Blue Dye on Activated Charcoal
By Abigail Seputro Faculty mentor: Dr. Leanna Giancarlo Methylene blue and crystal violet are cationic dyes of high intensity that are commonly discharged in wastewater. The colored compounds in wastewater inhibit sunlight penetration in waterways, resulting in the destruction of aquatic ecosystems. Activated carbon offers an attractive option for the efficient removal of dyes from…
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Education Applications Review
By Celia Shively Faculty mentor: Dr. Zach Whalen This project is designed to evaluate educational applications and consider their use in a classroom. Based on earlier projects and research, the best way to evaluate an application is by a rubric that is then generated into a point system. After creating a rubric and selecting apps,…
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Northanger Abbey: A Digital Companion
By Rosemary Pauley Faculty mentor: Dr. Zach Whalen Although there have been a couple of screen adaptations of the Northanger Abbey, the story seems to be largely ignored or forgotten in many discussions of Jane Austen’s brilliance. My individual study aims to partially remedy this lack of recognition by exploring the novel through my own…
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Addressing LGBTQ+ Health Disparities: A Training for Preclinical Medical Students
By Kaylee Deardorff Faculty mentor: Dr. Mindy Erchull The healthcare experience of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) individuals is often fraught with discrimination. While awareness and education surrounding LGBTQ+ identities and social issues have improved within healthcare, discrimination is still an everyday occurrence for many LGBTQ+ individuals, with the lack of LGBTQ+ health…
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Partnership In Preservation, The Creation of a Native American History and Culture Trail in King George County, VA
By Samantha Melvin Faculty mentor: Dr. Laura McMillan Students in the “Preservation in the Community” course at the University of Mary Washington partnered with King George County to create a recreational Native American History and Culture Trail. This trail was developed in collaboration with the Patawomeck and Rappahannock tribes to focus specifically on narratives that…
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A More Sustainable UMW; Our Progress in Eliminating Single-Use Plastic Waste
By Mariam Dames Faculty mentor: Dr. Eric Bonds This research seeks to gain a better understanding of the University of Mary Washington’s progress towards sustainability in the areas of recycling and waste reduction. Specifically, this paper explores Virginia Executive Order 77 as a pathway to reaching the University’s sustainability goals. To gain a better understanding…
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The Gendered Division of Household Labor, Care Work, and Covid-19: Exploring the Vulnerabilities of Mothers in the Labor Force
By Arianna Rodriguez Faculty mentor: Dr. Kristin Marsh 9:00-9:50am, HCC 328 Gendered expectations in the household have impacted women’s choices in the labor market and have rendered them vulnerable to the disruptions in our economy and society. Women’s participation in the labor market has increased significantly, however the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that inequalities for…
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“Chokehold” a short film
By Amber Harvey Faculty mentor: Dr. Jason Robinson This presentation is a short horror film created by Amber Harvey. Amber directed, wrote, and edited this film during her Spring 2022 semester. This film is an independent study completed by Amber as a way of combining her desire to become a filmmaker, her creative writing major,…
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Conservationists of Color Abstract
By Julia Gasink Faculty mentor: Dr. Ranjit Singh Environmentalism has been a field historically dominated by upper- and middle- class White men as a result of racism, sexism, and other inequities. Harmful stereotypes arose from decades of segregation and inaccessibility that environmentalism isn’t something that people of color care about. These misconceptions are not only…
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Identification of Fungi on Spotted Lanternfly
By Kayla Smith Faculty mentor: Dr. Josephine Antwi By using the method of microscopy the identification of three unknown fungal species were determined. Crystal violet staining, lactophenol cotton blue staining, and SEM were used to collect images of unknown fungal species. It was determined that PCR is required to differentiate between the fungal species. Overall…
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The Process of Game Development
By Jane Hill Faculty mentor: Dr. Jennifer Polack For the Research and Creativity Symposium, I will be showing off the game that is a culmination of my time with my individual study. As a computer science major, I wanted to work on a creative project and have always been interested in game development, and thus…
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Case study for understanding MTX resistance in Leishmania
By Bennet Varghese Faculty mentor: Dr. Swati Agrawal 9:00-9:50am, HCC 328 Leishmania is a parasite that causes Leishmaniasis, a neglected tropical disease that has many forms and potentially deadly symptoms. Methotrexate(MTX) is a drug that has been highly effective at treating and stopping Malaria infection by inhibiting the DHFR enzyme in the folate pathway. Since MTX…
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Analyzing Soccer Player Tendencies: Applications to the Goalkeeper and Passing
By Steven DeVerteuil Player analysis is an integral aspect of the sports analytics world. Player analysis is useful for coaches, scouts, and players alike for enhancing player and team performance. Notably, analysis of player tendencies may lead to player action modeling – a tool which can provide any given team an advantage over an opposing…
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Anomaly Detection with IoT using XGBoost
By Jonathan Plutkis I will be explaining and demonstrating one of the highly known anomaly detection software called XGBoost. The demonstration would be through my laptop, and I will show how it is still able to achieve a high percentage of accuracy. I will also be explaining how we are pushing to get XGBoots into…
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USING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TO INCREASE REPROCDUCIBILITY IN A PACKED BED COLUMN
By Docia Atanda Faculty mentor: Dr. Sarah Smith 2:00-2:50pm, HCC 329 Additive manufacturing (3D printing) is a transformative approach to industrial production that uses computer aided design (CAD) software to direct hardware to deposit material layer upon layer to deposit material in precise geometric shapes to yield lighter, more complex, and low-cost designs with increased…
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Humans, Bees, and Gods: How Virgil Explores the Concept of Ars in Georgics IV
by Jessica Thorne Faculty mentor: Dr. Joe Romero 9:00-9:50am HCC 329 One of the main parts of works by Virgil is the contemplation of the four main factors of human life and success, which are conditions surrounding your birth, your work, the work of nature, and divine intervention. The word for your work and skills…
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Math and Movement in the First Grade Classroom
By Emma McElwain
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The Effect of Student Choice on Engagement: Allowing a Student’s Choice in Reading Material as a way to Measure Engagement in the Secondary Classroom
By Claire Vorholt
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The impacts of gender inclusivity on the levels of sexual assault reporting within a military
By Keegan Fredrick Faculty advisor: Jason Davidson 10:00-10:50am, HCC 328 Abstract: This paper and presentation examine how the variance of a country’s level of military sexual assault reporting can be explained by its policies on gender inclusivity. Numerous military institutions in the international community currently face a rampant security crisis: sexual assault and violence against…
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How Education and Religion Shaped Women’s Roles Under Franco’s Dictatorship
By Elizabeth Lopez Faculty advisor: Jose Sainz 10:00-10:50am, HCC 328 This paper will explain the many changes women went through during and after Franco’s dictatorship. Franco wanted to unify Spain, and a way to do that was by oppressing the roles of women. Religion and education played a huge part in the ways women were…
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University of Mary Washington Guide to Dietary Restrictions on Campus
By Mckayla Shaffer Faculty/staff advisors: Kelli Slunt and Chris Porter 10:00-10:50am, HCC 328 Navigating dietary restrictions at a university is a challenge faced by students who have food allergies, celiac disease, dietary intolerances, or food sensitivities. This capstone project aims to reduce confusion around the resources available to students and staff in relation to dietary…
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Mastering English and a Home Language: The Truth Behind English as a Second Language Instruction
By Jasmine Villanueva Faculty advisors: Melissa Wells and Ann Rutt 10:00-10:50am, HCC 328 This paper is a broad description of the English as a Second Language (ESL) program in Luciana Martina County Schools (pseudonym), involving the interviews of both ESL teachers and former students from the same ESL program. These interviews provide insight into the…
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The Relationship Between Late Night, Twitter, and Political Literacy in 2020
By Sally Burkley Faculty advisor: Stephen Farnsworth 11:00-11:50am HCC 328 Political humor has played a role in politics since ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. From plays to newspaper comics to late night comedy, these bits of political criticism and commentary on current events have been there to provide the public with relief, reinforcement of views,…
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“Caring is a Pedagogical Necessity:” Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Foundations for a Seventh Grade Language Arts Persuasive Writing Unit
By Carleigh Rahn Faculty advisor: Janine Davis 11:00-11:50am HCC 328 Social and emotional learning is the process by which students learn important skills beyond the content of their classroom. The non-profit organization CASEL, a leader in SEL instruction, defines five fundamental skills of SEL: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making. The…
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Ethical AI: An Evaluation of AI Laws and Deployment
By Madison Williams Faculty advisor: Christopher Garcia 11:00-11:50am HCC 328 Over the years, the rapid adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms has been met with conflicting views. While discourse surrounding AI is often positive and framed as innovative and forward-moving, there are scholars who contend that actors are hastily adopting algorithms at the expense of ethical…
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Developing Laboratory Experiments for the International Chemistry Olympiad
By Nyah Hizer Faculty advisor: Kelli Slunt 2:00-2:50pm HCC 328 The International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) is a high school competition involving multiple examinations (both written and experimental) of an examinee’s chemistry skills. To select a team of 4 students to represent the United States, students complete a three-part national exam: 60 multiple-choice questions, eight problem-solving…
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Efficacy of Puregreen24 Against the Newcastle Disease Virus
By Jacob Kautzman Faculty advisor: Lynn Lewis 2:00-2:50pm HCC 328 The Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV) is a virulent virus that primarily affects Avian species and is a problem for poultry farms. Infections can be reduced by consistent vaccination and disinfection practices, but many vaccines are rendered ineffective due to virus mutation, and commercial disinfectants are…
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Learning Disabilities and Education in Bolivia and Chile
By Kree Pace Faculty advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Lewis 2:00-2:50pm HCC 328 I will be presenting my findings about disability in the education systems of Bolivia and Chile. Bolivia is one of the poorest countries in Latin America, while Chile is one of a much more stable economy. Two main models of disability are medical and…
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Irish in America: Memory, Cultural, Geography
By Thomas Blackburn Faculty advisor: Farhang Rouhani 2:00-2:50pm HCC 328 I wrote a thesis on a cultural analysis of the urban Irish American landscape. My thesis presentation will consist of a brief overview of this topic and a more in-depth analysis of my findings from my literature review and my primary research. I will provide…
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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…
