Submissions from 2022
Fictional Crime-Based Dramas and the Relationship Between Violence and Mental Illness, Katharine R. Carrión
Why You Should Care: Our Care-Based Obligation to Protect Ecospheric Places for Future People, Katherine Grace Davis
Temperature Trends in the Northeastern United States from 1950-2018, Emanuel Eagle
Germany, but Normal: Radical Right Populism in Eastern Germany, Jordan Groff
Examining Attitudes toward Mental Health in Chinese Americans, Xiao Shan Jiang
Grading with a Self-Evaluation Rubric: Acknowledging the Effect of Moral Luck on a Student’s Learning Process in Higher Education, Leelah Klauber
The Chemical Characterization of Microplastic Polymer Composition from Various Littoral Environments on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Leah Kosovsky
Psychological Factors of Athletes and Preference for Competition Against Opponents Who Differ in Relative Standing, Emily Lorry
Constructing Kurdistan: Cross-Border Kurdish Relations and Ethnic Identity, Benjamin Meyer
The Relationship Between Sleep Quality and Social Media Content, Isaac Moskowitz
A Comparative Analysis of the Andes and the Himalayas: How Climate Change Effects the Health of Glaciers and the Social Impacts This Has on Surrounding Communities, Jacqueline Mountford
Capitalocene Imaginations: Settler Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Environmental Crisis in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Literature, Zoe F. Pellegrino
“Strive for Gains!”: Perceived Fairness of College Tuition Price Increases, Rachel Powell
Countering Literary Antisemitism: The Figure of the Jew in the Early Twentieth Century American Novel, Amanda Sanders
Visual Depictions of Lucretia: Exploring Assault in Art through Myth, Isabella Sorrenti
“Living as Art”: Performance and the Haunting of the Japanese Diaspora, Hana Tanabe
Meeting Unmet Needs: The Evolution of Housing and Aid in New London 1910-1950, Madison Taylor
Genre Fluidity in Black Speculative Fiction as an Exploration of Blackness, Jake Upton
Are Truth and Justice Naturally Stronger than their Opposites?: A Comparative Study of Plato’s Gorgias and Aristotle’s Rhetoric, Jake Verrilli
Submissions from 2021
In the Belly of the Beast: The Legacy of Puerto Rican Women in the Development of Anti- Imperialist Feminism, Grace Amato
Settling In, Audrey Black
Private Kahn and Brother Webb: Islam in the Late 19th-Century United States, Katherine Farr
Invisible Chronic Illness in College: Faculty Perspectives and Student Narratives Surrounding Accommodations, Andra Gurley-Green
Exploring the Relationship of Gender, COVID-19-Related Stress and Autobiographical Memory, Mirelle Kass
Failures to Mobilize and Invest in Youth Voters: The Limitations of Presidential Advertising in Elections from 1996 to 2016, Grace Killian
From Major to Minor Characters: The Fallen Woman and Her Female Friends in the Novels of Wollstonecraft, Hays, and Austen, Anne McLaughlin
The PRC’s War on Terror: The Impact of Historical Events on the Uyghurs Today, Lauren Munster
Discrimination in Modern Labor Markets: A Field Experiment, Taekmin Nam
Why are Glycines 31, 33, and 35 Highly Conserved in all Fluorescent Proteins?, Justin Nwafor
Listening to the Transgender Child’s Voice: Navigating Parent-Child Conflicts Regarding Gender-Affirming Care, Halle Paredes
Why are Gly31, Gly33 and Gly35 highly conserved in all fluorescent proteins?, Christian Salguero
Museum Representations of Contested Spaces: The Kuril Islands, Emily Sandall
Okay but what if we didn’t do that?: Countering White Supremacy and Anti-Blackness through Community Building in the Choreographic Process, Mara Senecal-Albrecht
Destabilizing Shakespeare: Reimagining Character Design in 1 Henry VI, Carly Sponzo
The Presidential Function: An American Public Performed Through the Rhetoric of Catastrophe, Maxwell Whisnant
Submissions from 2020
Love and Loss in Willa Cather’s Novels, Sara Abbazia
The Exo-Phony: Exploring Transnational Identity Through Multigenerational Narrative, Sophia Angele-Kuehn
The Representation of North African Immigrants in French and Spanish Film, Julie Blazar
Psychological and Sociological Effects of Learning German for Adolescent Migrants in Germany, Scott Brauer
Causes of and Barriers Within the Informal Economy: How to Promote Change for Women Domestic Workers in Lima, Peru, Dominique Burrows
The Development of the Tourism Industry in Paris, France, Christian Carr-Locke
Implicit Bias through the Lens of Electroencephalography, Hope Cooper
The Effect of Physical Interaction on Evolving Attention Relating to Advertisements and Visual Information, Margaret S. Davey
Dirty, Bloody, Money: Menstruation Education for Young American Women in the 20th Century, Amelia DeFrancis
A Breathing Body in Ritual Ecology: The Aesthetics and Metaphysics of Black Experimental Film, Julianna Donovan
BrexLit: The Problem of Englishness in Pre- and Post-Brexit Referendum Literature, Dulcie Everitt
Asylum as an Extension of the Biopolitical State: An Analysis of US Sexual Orientation-Based Asylum Cases, Abigail Ferland
The Altar of National Prosperity: Extractivism and Sacrifice Zones in Argentine Patagonia, Jonathan Gomez-Pereira
“What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger:” The Fallacy of Rape Narratives as Paths to Women’s Empowerment in Contemporary Television, Alessia S. Guise
The Effectiveness of Italian Law 104/92: Healthcare for Pediatric Physical Disabilities, Claudia Heim
The Refugee Economy in Jordan, Elizabeth Hensley
Understanding Pharmaceutical Pricing in the United States, Ashley Howe
How Brexit is Affecting the United Kingdom’s Financial Institutions, Amiansu Khanal
Binge-Watching and Its Correlates of Personality and Problematic Internet Use in a South African Sample, Zelal Kilic
Reclaiming the Narrative of a Generation: The Representation of Argentina’s Last Dictatorship Through Cinema, Hana Kristensen
The Representation of the Last Dictatorship in Argentine Cinema, Hana Kristensen
The Colonial Gaze In Aotearoa New Zealand: Origins, Residue, and Means for Mitigation, Juliet Levesque
How Public Transportation Can Combat Social and Economic Inequality, Madeleine Megargee
The Design of Psychotherapy Waiting Rooms, Lilly Noble
A Defense of Pyrrhonian Skepticism, Evan O'Donnell
Social, Economic, and Political Aspects of the Healthcare Systems in Italy and the United States, Conor O'Neil
Narratological Experiments in Cinematic Alternate Reality Games, Christian Parker
The Resurgence of Russia in the International System via Foreign Policy Strategy in the Middle East, Ali Plucinski
Modern Monetary Theory, Tristan Rabbitt
“If Tyranny is Law, Revolution is Order”: An Exploration of Puerto Rican Justice, Ana Reyes-Rosado
The Endangerment and Conservation of Wildlife in Costa Rica, Dana Rodwin
The Role of Community Gardens, Julia Thomas
The Dangerous Rise of Antibiotic Resistance in Contemporary Spain, Isis Torrez
Submissions from 2019
Building an Environmental State: A Comparative Analysis of Environmental State Formation in Germany and China, Russell Adam
Implicit Bias in the Criminal Justice System: An Economic Review, Brianna Duseau
Spring Elegy, Cameron Dyer-Hawes
Anxiety-Like Behavior in Adolescent Rats Following Maternal Separation and Chronic Cocaine Exposure, Jonathan Handy
Embracing Foreignness: Transplanting, Trans-nationalizing, and Translating the Stranger in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Works, Suguru Ikeda
Ultrastructural Analysis of the Digestive Gland Secretory and Absorptive Processes in Nepenthes glandulifera, Shannon Manuel
Suetonius’ Life of Vergil: Text, Commentary, and Analysis of Authorship, Bailey Mertz
Health Disparities and Access in American Children: Addressing Speech and Language Pathology though Education and Healthcare, Ilaria Monteleone
Reducing Racial and Gender Implicit Biases: The Effects of Multicultural Education on a Child’s Preferences and Occupational Aspirations, Bryanna Paskowitz
Whither Rose?: Philosophy, Theology, and the West, Elijah Perry
Investigating the Role of Recreational Trails in Plant Invasion in Southeastern Connecticut, Asa John Peters
The Influence of Negative Mood on Mind Wandering as Observed Through Reach Tracking Techniques, Sydney Tran
The Effects of Mindful Instagram Use on Social Comparison and College Life Satisfaction, Micaela Zebroski
Submissions from 2018
Impact of Severe Drought Conditions on Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacterial Communities in a Connecticut Salt Marsh, Jack Beltz
Lying in Politics and the Rise of Post-Truth: Philosophical Perspectives and Current U.S. Challenges, Cecilia Bole
Under-researched and Underrepresented: Community Members’ Perceptions of International Volunteering and International Volunteers in Swaziland, Laura Anne Henderson
Audible Killings: Capitalist Motivation, Character Construction, and the Effects of Representation in True Crime Podcasts, Maia Hibbett
High-resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of the v23 and v22 Vibrational Bands of Methyl Vinyl Ketone, Michael Iranpour
Y’en a Marre! Hip-Hop Culture and Social Mobilization in Post Colonial Senegal, Lucie Latuner
The Denial of the Right to Choose: Structural Violence and Abortion in Chile, Elizabeth Lewis
Le pardon et la réconciliation dans le Rwanda post-génocide, Jing Liang
Sugar Overload: The Artificiality of the American Dream for Latinx Immigrants, Dovey Martinez
The Effects of Drought on Ammonia-oxidizing Archaea in Salt Marshes, Hayley McMahon
Renaissance Revenge and the Age of Interiority, Riley Meachem
There’s No Place like a Favorite Place: The Role of Place on Donative Behavior, Micaela Nee
Tracing Nostalgia, Micaela Nee
Neoliberalism in Latin America: Challenging Eurocentric Theory in Mexico and Chile, Gabriela Osterling