Student Research from 2020
Home: Recreated in a College Setting, Hannah Huggins
Challenging Bosnian Women’s Identity as Rape Victims: The Fetishization of Sexual Violence in Post-Conflict Discourse, Rebecca Jacobi
Computer Vision For Recycling, Pratima Kandel
Language and Dyslexia: The Influence of Morphological Awareness on the Literacy Development of Children with Dyslexia, Mackenzie King
Menander: A Greco-Buddhist King?, Jacob Kolodny
The Evolution of Hermes His Influences and Appearance from the Archaic to Classical Periods, Haley Lavach
Paradise Under Siege: How the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Understood Spain, 1937 - 1939, Wyatt Lipscomb
The Effects of Language Anxiety on Second Language Learners: A Literature Review, Claire Marsala
Septimus Smith Had to Die: An Examination of Virginia Woolf’s Frustration with the Mental Health System After WWI, Mackenzie K. McCotter
Understanding gender practices and identity in Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse through the theories of Erving Goffman, Meaghan McIntyre
Honors Studio Art Portfolio, Tara Meeks
Body Language: Avatars, Identity Formation, and Communicative Interaction in VRChat, Cristina Montemorano
Leading Lad(y) in Love: Gender and Agency in Two Self-Reflective Romantic Comedies, Cristina Montemorano
Transgenerational Effects of Parental Drought Stress on Germination Time and Gene Expression in Arabidopsis Thaliana, Benjamin Moss
She Kills Monsters: Virtual Realms, Agnes, Madison Neilson
Get Out, Queen & Slim: A Content Analysis of How Race is Portrayed in Two Mainstream Hollywood Films, Ronic Ngambwe
The Megachurch, its Critics and The Prosperity Gospel, Ronic Ngambwe
EFFECTS OF COGNITIVE COACHING ON TEACHER EFFICACY, Stacy Parker
On Reconciling Contemporary Feminism and Marxism, claire parkey
School Climate and Leadership of School Administrators, Pam Perkins
The Deconstruction of Patriarchal Narratives in Ntozake Shange's for colored girls, Caleigh Pope
Herstory: An Analysis of the Representation of Women in Middle Grades U.S. History Textbooks, Crystal Rayle
The Impact of Drawing Post-Reading on Third Grade Reading Comprehension, Emma Rooney
Resiliency and Resources for Students Affected by Adverse Childhood Experiences, Melanie Russ
Linking Irrigation to Landslides in Franklin County, Washington, Eric Savaria
Anticommutative Associative Algebras And The Binomial Theorem, Ashley Scurlock
"On the Verge of Liberty": The Impact of Advocacy and Federal Policy at the Point Lookout Contraband Camp, Madelyn Shiflett
Creating Variety in the Classroom: Using New Ways to Keep Students Engaged in Reading, Amber Snyder
Dimensions of the DSM, Emma Snyder
"The Thereafter", Allison Stanich
Exploration of Solvable Quintic Polynomials, Stephen Tivenan
The Reign of Nero: A Delusional Journey to Suicide, Cayce Walker
The Effects of Inquiry-Based Learning and Student Achievement in the Science Classroom, Celeste Elizabeth Wilson
Representations of Disability in Literature and Elementary Education, Rebecca Young
An Extended View of the Temporal Dynamics of Caspase Activity During the Extrinsic Pathway of Apoptosis in Jurkat T-Lymphocytes, Catherine Zwemer
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
English Teachers’ Perceptions and Opinions on the Use of Instructional Technologies in the Inclusive Classroom, Zachary Caldwell
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
Generosity of Spirit: Faith, Democracy, and Grace in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, Elisabeth DellaRova
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
Neuroqueering Gender, Ren Koloni
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
Small Rural High Schools and College Completion, John Martin
Vincent van Gogh's Self-Portraits, Mary Novitsky
The Crossing of Academic Success and Extracurricular Activities in School Culture: An Educator’s Perspective, Kyle Oltman
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
La sociolinguistique et la poésie du français louisianais, Eleni Riris
Expediting Learning with Interactive Demonstrations, Brandon Rozek
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
Crisis and Confidence: An interviewer’s approach to school crisis management, Ryan Stevenson
Gender and Perspective in Eighteenth-Century Women's Travel Writing, Carolyn Stough
Synthesis and Application of a Magnetic Nanoparticle Based Nano-complex for Targeted Cell Death in Glioblastoma Multiforme Cells, Matthew Tovar
Stage Manager Promptbook for Fun Home, Grace L. Weaver
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
Interpretations of Female Authority in Medieval Literature, Olivia Havlin
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