Student Research from 2019
Improving Bertini 2.0: Classifying Singular Polynomials with Machine Learning, Riley Anderson
Assessing Bias Removal from Word Embeddings, Clare Arrington
Misogyny, Rape Culture, and the Reinforcement of Gender Roles in HBO’s Game of Thrones, Emma Baumgardner
Predicting Parameters for Bertini Using Neural Networks, Makenzie Clower
The 'Will of the Voters': Examining Trends in Legislative Repeal of State Ballot Initiatives, John Cronin
The Seasonality of Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotopes of Rain, Stream and Groundwater in Fredericksburg, VA, Kathleen C. Elliott, Pamela R. Grothe, and Bronwen Konecky
Detained by Data: A Critical Analysis of the Virginia Pretrial Risk Assessment Instrument, Stacey Feindt
“Poor Creature:” Class Subjugation in Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, Rhonda Fowler
Playing Frank in Merrily We Roll Along, Neal Gallini-Burdick
The Education of Women Artists in Northern Europe, 1500-1750, Elayna Gladstone
"Something Worth Being Killed Over": The FBI, Cultural Propaganda, and the Murder of Fred Hampton, Ronan Goforth
Physiological Differences in Stress Reactivity between Morning and Evening Chronotypes, Megan Jacobs
Synthesis of Piperidine-Based Inhibitors of KasA, a Vital Enzyme of M. tuberculosis, Lindsey Jones
Effect of Oxide Layer Thickness on Tunneling-Percolation Threshold in Nanoparticle-Polymer Composites, Hannah Killian
State Innovation Waivers: The Efficacy of Federalist Approaches to the Affordable Care Act, Gabriel Nick Lewis
#nolaeats: Marketing New Orleans' French Quarter Restaurants Using Instagram, Darby Libka
Analysis of Deterministic and Stochastic HIV Models, Emily MacIndoe
Vincent van Gogh's Self-Portraits, Mary Novitsky
Revitalización de las Lenguas Indígenas de Guatemala, Amy Pepkin
Does Everyone Really Change in the End?: Analyzing the Perceived Transformative Powers of Islamic Fundamentalism, Mackenzie R. Poust
Academic Achievement In Flipped Classrooms, Ernest Quintana
Establishing Ethos with Nontraditional Credibility, Anna Rinko
Power, Performativity, and Gender in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Clara Sigmon
Subverting Gendered Language Expectations: A Look at My Mother, Mary Skinner
Hand Me Downs and Other Stories: A Flash Fiction Study, Sarah Stephen
Synthesis and Application of a Magnetic Nanoparticle Based Nano-complex for Targeted Cell Death in Glioblastoma Multiforme Cells, Matthew Tovar
Student Research from 2018
FROM BATTLEGROUNDS TO PHONE SCREENS: The Use of Images During the Syrian Refugee Crisis, Christine Ayad
Saving Nature: Rethinking the Human/Nature Relationship, Katharine Barry
The Library Book, Kylie Bean
The Impact of Morphological Awareness on the Reading Development of Children with Developmental Dyslexia, Christina Bloom
Directing The Children's Hour, Jamie Broadhead
It’s A Match! The Procedural Rhetoric of Gaming and Online Dating in Tinder, Christina Brown
Overcoming Ineffability Through Discourse on Hindu Self and Buddhist Non-Self: Tensions Between the Study of Religion and Religious Experience, Christina Brown
Islamophobie im Modernen Deutschland, Logan Burum
Por Sangre, Emma Cahoon
Reclaiming Independence: Comparing the Daughters in King Lear and A Thousand Acres, Zachary Caldwell
Political Participation, Efficacy, and Community Organizing in Appalachia: How A Marginalized Region Makes Sense of their Circumstances, Christopher Cassingham
The Resilience of Clientelism in Menem's Argentina, Marina Castro-Meirelles
An Analysis of Efficiency Measures of the S/V Zodiac, Henry Darron
Senior Project Journal, Lauren Esprit
The Status of Socialism in Contemporary US Politics, Noah Gardner
Constructions of Adolescence in James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain, Hannah Gautsch
Female Secondary School Stipend Programs in Bangladesh and Pakistan: What can we learn from South Asia’s CCTs?, Julia Gibbons
Understanding the Gender Gap in Computer Science Undergraduate Academics, Mikaela Goldrich
The Paradox of Cracker Barrel: A Case Study on Place and Placelessness, Meredith Gregory
Non-commutative Massey-Omura Encryption with Symmetric Groups, Shannon Haley
Sexual Violence and Women’s Health in Fredericksburg, VA, Esther Hethcox
Adorno and Reconciliation, Jonathan Hollingsworth
Writing for an Audience: The Griselda Translations, Christine Houchins
The Restricted Agency of Women in Arden of Faversham and The Spanish Tragedy, Amanda Howar
Decomposition, Sarah Kinzer
The Sexy Pikachu Effect: Empowerment and Objectification in Women Who Cosplay, Sophia Lamp
The Implementation of Religious Literacy Curricula in American Public Schools, Natalie LeMay
The Role of Music in the Revitalization of Faroese in the Faroe Islands, Rachel Manning
The Progression of Communications: The lifeline between deployed military personnel and their families, Cierra McKinney
The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on the Composition of the Female Labor Force, Liam Missios
Performing Mary Tilford in The Children's Hour, Cynthia Mullins
A Space for Women in the Law, Megan Murphy
When You Have A Postcard For A Father, Abigail Shea Nibblett
Challenging Society in Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist and Bleak House, Adrienne Oliver
The U.S. War on Drugs in Latin America: What is the Method to the Madness?, Kendall Parker
What We Talk About When We Talk About the Ramsays: Gender Politics in To the Lighthouse, Ashley Riggleson
Hashtag: Journey to Me: Self-Fulfillment Via Education, Janice Riley
Virtue Ethics, Deontology, and Consequentialism, Brandon Roby
Non-Commutative Zero-Knowledge Protocols, Bailey Stewart
Synthetic Routes to Bromo-Terminated Phosphonate Films and Alkynyl Pyridine Compounds for Click Coupling, Poornima Sunder
The Renaissance Woman's Guide to Divorce: Exploring Marriage in Arden of Faversham and The Tragedy of Mariam, Briana Tyler
Pragmatic Faith: An Epistemic Link between Religion, Science, Mathematics, and Philosophy, John Benjamin Willis
Narrative Form and Agency in #MeToo, Katherine Wolfe
Representations of Lucrezia Borgia and the Image of the Moral Exemplar in the Late Quattrocento and Early Cinquecento, Nina Wutrich
Student Research from 2017
Samenkörner der Rezession, Nathan Anderson
Effective Note Taking Strategies in the Secondary Mathematics Classroom, Stefannie M. Asselanis
"What do you mean my first draft isn't perfect?" A study of the impact of reflection journaling a peer review on student writing, Lindsey Holladay Aylor
The Mystery of a Senior Project, Mandy Barnes
The Dangers of Living the "Half-Known Life": What Moby-Dick Can Teach Us About Nature, Katherine Barth
The Active Narrator: Fieldian Narration in Strachey and Woolf, Natalie I. Beyer
The Use of Creaky Voice in Mitigating Face Threatening Acts, Erin Butler
An Economic Analysis of What Role Monetary Contributions Play in How a Government Representative Will Vote, Jordan T. Carrier
Religion in the Media: A Study of Student Perception of Media Bias in Georgia, Alexander Clegg
Fighting Ignorance of the Middle East and Islam: A Case Study of Generation Global in a Virginia Classroom, Caitriona Nam Hee Cobb
Finding Sylvia: A Journey to Uncover the Woman within Plath's Confessional Poetry, Emily Daly
Algorithms to Approximate Solutions of Poisson's Equation in Two and Three Dimensions, Rachelle Serena Dambrose
El misticismo como vehículo para el feminismo en la serie La Habana Oculta de Daína Chaviano, Thallya Marie Diaz
Narrating the French National Story: The Role of Discourse in the Production of Frenchness, Sarah Quinn Dickshinski
The Writing Path to Healing: An Individual Study on Written Emotional Disclosure, Sarah Foster
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Senior Project by Lauren Frautschi, Lauren Frautschi
Maxwell's Equations, Gauge Fields, and Yang-Mills Theory, Nicholas Alexander Gabriel
When the Universal Trump is Passed Around, Molly Ann Garthwaite
Stance Taking as a Marker of Identity in Bilingual Hispanic Millennials, Marc Gehlsen
The Effects of Sensory Diet Exercises on the Classroom Behavior of a Student with Autism, Anne M. Glencer
Sound Design Macbeth, Morgan K. Gresham
Climate Change and Conflict: The Relationship Between Government Response to Climate Change and Civil Unrest in the Middle East and North Africa, Lydia Grossman
Grounded Aspirations: The Freedmen's Struggle for Independence from the Planter Land Monopoly, Kristopher L. Hiser
Fundations: A Systematic, Research-Based Program to Support Students with Dyslexia through Tier 1 Instruction, Clarie C. Innocenti
Phoenix in the Iliad, Kati M. Justice
Mortals' Chiefest Enemy, Megan Khaziran
Stage Manager Promptbook for The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Taylor Anne Kiechlin