Submissions from 2024
“With a little artifice, therefore!” The Ethics of Aestheticization in Holocaust Documentary, Marguerite Adolf
Representation in Healthcare Matters: Perspectives on Inadequate Physician Diversity and Its Potential Impact on Minority Patients, Madison Andrews
Simulation Studies of Topological Defect Behavior in Rank-2 Anti-Symmetric Tensor Fields, Wyatt Carbonell
Enduring Memories from the Covid Pandemic, Matthew Fajfer
Using Repeat Photography to Document the Effects of Climate Change on Glaciers in Iceland Change on Glaciers in Iceland, Madeleine Gassin
“Comrade Mrs. Johnson”: A Biography of Socialist Politician Olive M. Johnson, Sydney Marenburg
Numerical Black Hole Solutions For A Timelike Bumblebee Field, Azadé Modaressi
Access and Equity in Higher Education: The Social Significance of Mentoring BIPOC and FGLI Students, Wendy Olivares
Watching Together and Watching Alone: An Examination of Audience Aesthetic and Affective Reception of a Short Film, Madalena Rathgeber
Income Source Effect of Expectations and Seriousness on Spending Behavior, Ethan Sweeney
Submissions from 2023
Physical Activity, Stress, & Sexual Behavior: The Role of Exercise in Sexual Health of Undergraduate Students, Emily Berkeley
Aloha Japan: Staging Hawaiian Culture, A. Anuheaokalani Noriko Breeden
Hiring Discrimination in Denmark, Sweden, and Iceland: A Comparative Study of Ukrainian and Afghan Job Applicants, Annika Brown
Design, Construction, and Stabilization of an Adjustable Repetition Rate Frequency Comb for Precision Spectroscopy, Matthew Carter
A Study of Attention-Free and Attentional Methods for LiDAR and 4D Radar Object Detection in Self-Driving Applications, King Wah Gabriel Chan
Examining the Role of Chronic Stress in Cancer Progression and Metastasis: p53 as a Potential Mechanism, Jillian R. Dean
Cognitive and Neural Development in a Rodent Model of PTSD from Maternal Maltreatment, Nhi Doan
Fostering Communist Elites: Cold War Czechoslovakia's Foreign Student Program, Emily Hackett
The Portrayal of Women in Opera: An Analytical Study of the Music in Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Sophie Hage
Un-writing American History: Reimaging What Constitutes Evidence in the Historical Method, May Kotsen
From Solidarity to Shock Therapy: Examining the Role of Neoliberalism in the Transition from Socialism to Capitalism in Poland, Benjamin Murphy
The YUCCA Auxin Biosynthetic Genes and Drought: How Does Gene Expression Change in Water Stressed Leaves?, Samantha Pelletier
Disability Justice in Motion: Exploring DJ Principles through Contact Improvisation, Susanna Procario-Foley
The Other Side of the Coin: Russification Practices and Perestroika Policies (1985-1991), Lev Pushel
Mapping the Political Shifts and Impacts of the Climate Movement in the United States, Kevin Rissmiller
Figures, Jess Rush
Bonded by Class, Divided by Race: Labor Radicalism and the Origins of the Freedom Struggle in St. Louis from 1877-1945, Kevin Scannell
Moments with Sitters: A Year Working from Life, Hannah Smith
Effects of Color on Sustained Attention and Recall, Harry Steinharter
Genetic Capitalism: The Anthropological Evolution of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria, Mehin Suleiman
Black October: The Migration of Black Americans to the Soviet Union in the Interwar Period, Alice Volfson
Out of Odesa: Yefim Ladyzhensky and the "Odesa text" of Jewish-Soviet Culture, Beatrice Voorhees
A Computational Analysis of Hybrid Genome Assembly Strategies, Joseph Walewski
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
Unraveling Ancient Lake Conditions through Eunotia Identification, Erik Duffy Oddsund
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
Directed Evolution Studies on a Firefly Luciferase Variant to Improve Signal Intensity for in vivo Bioluminescence Imaging, Allison Racela
Countering Literary Antisemitism: The Figure of the Jew in the Early Twentieth Century American Novel, Amanda Sanders
Investigating Distractor-induced Effects in Visual Search Utilizing Eye-Tracking, Anjum Shaikh
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