Student Research from 2021
When Admiration Turns to Obsession: A Case Study on Taylor Swift Fan Theories, Kendall Resnick
Crude Measures: Assessing the Success and Failure of Maximum Pressure Campaigns, Dillon Schweers
Two Jews, Three Opinions: An Exploration of Young American Jewish Perspectives on Israel, Kate Seltzer
The Reckoning That Never Happened, Katherine Seltzer
The Pensieve Podcast, Alexandra Slaughter
Black, Gay, and Unapologetic: How Lil Nas X Is Bringing The Out Group In, Julianne Stella Swope
Addressing Digital Technologies Needed for Students in K-12 Schools, Tiffany Tueros
“Yo, is that a gamer girl? I have a boner”; Gendered aggression in competitive video games, Madison Turner
Proton Pump Inhibitors Promote Apoptosis in Jurkat T Lymphocytes, Ashley Utz
How Expansive is Essential? Restriction of Abortion Services in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Eva Katherine Waszak
An Empirical Analysis of Economic Inequality on Economic Growth, Brandon Williams
Parameter Estimation in Nonlinear Regression: Exploring Confidence Intervals for Estimated Coefficients, Brandon Williams
Carpe Diem and Consolation: Horace's Imitation and Manipulation of Greek Lyric Models, Ruth Wilmot
A Critique of Audi's Ethical Intuitionism, Caleb Yarbrough
Student Research from 2020
The Roman Dogma of Animal Breeding: “Bark”aeological Findings Reveal the Effects of Selective Pressures on Roman Dogs, Ariane Akhand
The Mental Health and Social-Emotional Development of Young Children, Teresa Alexander
Japanese Whaling and The International Whaling Commission, Tea Barndt
Markov Chain Model for the Spread of an Epidemic, Abigail Eleanor Bernhardt
Introduction to the Publishing Industry, Krista Beucler
The Effect of Maternal and Paternal Caregivers’ Failure Mindsets and Helicopter Parenting on Emerging Adults’ Intelligence Mindsets, Nichole M. Boigegrain
Zu viel Zukunft!, Grace Brecht
BACTEREMEDIATION: USING NATURALLY-OCCURRING DIESEL-DEGRADING BACTERIA TO CLEAN OIL SPILLS, Fernando Cabezas
An Analysis of Julius Caesar’s Generalship as Compared to Proper Generalship in Vegetius, William Carpenter
Investigating Reproductive Success and Endocrine Regulation of Mating Strategies in Male Japanese Medaka, Lauren Closs
The T, T*, VI, VNI Model for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) Dynamics, Amy Creel
Effective ELL Instruction and the SIOP Model: A Comparative Analysis, Rachel Crow
Feelings of Preparedness in First Career Versus Second Career Teachers, John Deemy
Hair and Power in Ovidian Love Elegy; A Discussion of Feminine Dominance and the Hair Apparent, Lydia Eisenberg
Presidential Power Reconsidered: A Contemporary Look at Neustadtian Bargaining, Jeremy Engel
Faithful Unto Death: The West Point Class of 1861 and the First Manassas Campaign, Jessie Fitzgerald
Latinas in Congress: Lack of Party Support and Disproportionate Underrepresentation, Rebecca Fitzgerald
Environmental stress response genes crosstalk with the floral developmental program in Arabidopsis thaliana, Kelly Flynn
Directing "Time Stands Still" by Donald Margulies in Studio 115, Victoria Fortune
Identifying Music Interventions to Support Students with ADHD in the Classroom, Mandy Frantz
Conjugation by Circulant Matrices in Non-commutative Cryptography, Hannah B. Frederick
The Impact of Adult Social and Emotional Competencies on Student Social and Emotional Learning and Success, Sarah French
A Student Teacher’s Journey through Learning to Plan and Teach Writing: An Autoethnography, Samantha Gill
Giftedness in Young Children: What Do Parents and Teachers Know?, Katie Goodman
Racial Politics and the U.S. Annexation of Hawaii, Joseph Hearl
The Subtle Body: Religious, Spiritual, Health-Related, or All Three?, Kathryn Heislup
"Let Us Look into the Future": Representations of Upward Social Mobility in Soviet Space Culture, Richard Higginbotham
My Failed Fake News Experiment, Jennifer Hill
On Primary Matter & Causality: An Investigation into The Nature of Aristotelian Ontology, Addison Hinton
Assessing the sublethal impacts of sulfoxaflor on the physiology and behavior of Daphnia magna, Mary M. Hoffman
Free Speech and the Internet, John Huebler
Trump’s 2016 Campaign, the Republican Party, and Trade, John Huebler
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