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Student Research from 2025

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Numerical Analysis of the SEIR Model, Abigail R. Beckelhimer

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Senior Project: Associate Music Director for Nunsense, Madeline Berger

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When I Thought We Were Timeless - Cello Duet, Madeline Berger

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Dekonstruktion der AfD: Eine Analyse der rechtspopulistischen deutschen Partei der„Alternative für Deutschland”, Elizabeth A. Breckenridge and Elizabeth Breckenridge

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Degradation of Vascular Networks in a HUVEC Model of DM1, Bonnie E. Butler

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Damaging Ramifications to Unprocessed Trauma: Intergenerational Alcoholism in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, Haley Chamer

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“Already My Heart Misgave me”: Doomed Fantasy and Children in James Joyce’s “Araby” and William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning”, Kathleen E. Conner

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Incorporating Scenes of Torture in Literature, Kiera A. Croswait

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Divine Achilles and his Raging Heart: Cannibalism in the Iliad, Lucca Crowe

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Know Thyself: A History of Ancient Neuroscience, Alex Delano

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Advertising to Children: A Content Analysis of Ryan's World, Cora Denny

Reading the Fine Print: Poetry and Community on Campus, Logan Edwards

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A Special Little Guy, Amelia Emory

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The Effects of PFOS Exposure on Zebrafish Dopaminergic Neurodevelopment, Allison G. Fletcher

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Synthesis of Surface Bound Ligands Through Click Chemistry for a Tethered Catalyst System towards the Reduction of Carbon Dioxide, Emma J. Goehner

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“Every Mother a Missionary”?: The Vlogs of Mormon Mothers, Celia Golden

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Examining the Success of QAnon, Zoe Hanrahan

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A Path for a Post-Oil Iraq: A Green Transition Strategy to Prepare Iraq for Climate Change, Jason Edward Harsha

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I Let the Ocean Hear My Song, Zachary Heske

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Comparing Parasitism and Resistance to Flow in Two Populations of Elimia virginica, Morgan G. Hicok, Abbie Tomba, and Kate Green

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IDITAROD’S EFFECT ON MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY TYPE 1 DISEASE PROGRESSION IN A DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER MODEL, Delaney Grace Humphrey

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How External Efficacy Influences Support for Third-Party and Independent Candidates: A Mediational Analysis, Joren (Jordy) Santana

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Exploring Education Policy and Resources in Virginia Secondary Education, Gabrielle Lyon

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Beyond the Didactic: The Morally Edifying Impact of Pure Aesthetic Experience, Hayley A. Madden

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"Nunsense" Promptbook, Peyton H. McCarthy

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Thomas Sutpen, Stephen Dedalus, and the Intersection of Creation and Mortality, Layla A. McGovern

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Are You Really “Just a Girl?”: A Rhetorical Analysis of Female Identity Construction on TikTok, Gabriella R. Molseed

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Nonconformity and Romance: An Analysis of Pride and Prejudice on Film, Gabriella R. Molseed

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Influencer Or Fake, It Is All One In The Same On TikTok, Martina Nicholson

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Investments or Restrictions? China’s Influence on Freedom of Expression in African Countries, Christina A. Oswalt

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Gender Within 20th Century Lesbian Literature, Margaret A. Paulson

Sibelius Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 Movement One, Kelsey E. Payne

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Trans-Pacific Connections: Chinese Porcelain and Aztec Motifs in Colonial Mexico, Natalia Ramirez

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Trans-Pacific Connections: Unveiling Cultural Exchange through Baroque Folding Screens of Japan and Mexico, Natalia Christine Ramirez

Sensory Friendly Performance of Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical, Mary M. Robinson

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Riding the Digital Wave: How Large Enterprises Are Embracing Disability Inclusion in the Digital Era, Amanda K. Sheward

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“Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes”: Singular Female Perspectives in As I Lay Dying and Ulysses, Rowan I. Tully

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I Will Not Accept this Rose: "The Bachelor(ette)," Gender Stereotypes, and Self Perception, Rylie Vann

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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: Exploring Post-War Ethics, Claire Marshall Watkins

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Sesame Street: From Puppets to Pixels, Blaise C. Wingold

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MicroKnight: A Covert Learning Approach for Educational Videogames, Rain A. Wynes

Student Research from 2024

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Unwanted Pursuit Behaviors & Emotional Reactivity to Former Romantic Partners: An EEG Study, Ameer Abdel-Muhsin

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Old Wives’ Tales: Collections from Beneath the Floorboards, Layla Barnes

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Portraying Mrs. Hubbard in Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, Madison Baylor

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Asian American Represenation in Sitcoms, Anna Blake

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Programas de ELL dentro del área de Fredericksburg, VA: Una Descripción y Justificación para su Defensa, Natalie Buchanan

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The Metaphor of Ekphrasis: or Why does your Ekphrasis look different from mine?, William Butler

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Virginia History Standards and Inclusivity, Laura Byers

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Truth anti-smoking campaign: Messaging characteristics and the use of fear, Erin Caine

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Unveiling the Threat- AI and Deepfakes' Impact on Women, Emily Chapman

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Teacher Efficacy in Co-teaching Science Classrooms: Implications for Training, Sabrina Christensen

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“4, 24”, and 4c”: The Shared Knowledge of Hair Terminology and Cultural Pride Among Black Women., Aliya J. Claiborne

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From Never Enough to Nothing at All: An Investigation of Political Commentary in Euripides' Medea, Eleanor Clark

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A Journey on the Orient Express, Mason Clark

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Image Repair Strategies and Theories and the Lost Apology in Crisis Communication, Bridget Crowley

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Women Draw Women Better: How The Hypersexualization Of Women And Reinforcement Of Sexist Tropes In The Comic Book Industry Has Shifted., Aaron Dawson

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More than a Punchline: A Comparative Analysis of Diversity in Dropout.tv & CollegeHumor, Alexander Gluchowski

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Establishment Support in Primary Elections: How Much Does It Matter?, Edward Haggerty

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The Chinese Room and Creating Consciousness: How Recent Strides in AI Technology Revitalize a Classic Debate, Thomas Held

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Boolean Group Structure in Class Groups of Positive Definite Quadratic Forms of Primitive Discriminant, Christopher Albert Hudert Jr.

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From Goths to Romans? Changing Conceptions of Visigothic Kingship in the Reigns of Leovigild and Reccared, Lance Hungar

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Tools of Oppression: The Virginia School System and the School to Prison Pipeline, Natalie Johnson-Abbott

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Trump's 2016 Election Win: Why He Owes it to Jesus, Margaret Jones

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The Prevalence of Anti-Feminist Content on TikTok and YouTube Shorts, Naomi Jones

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Simulating Information and Communication Applications in Employee Interaction Network Models, Matthew Kanter

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A Trump-Shaped Shadow: Demonstrating Competing Republican Identities to Gain Party Support, Amede Karina-Plun

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How Ghosting is Perceived as a Relationship Dissolution Strategy in the Digital Age: A Content Analysis of Everyday Definitions of Ghosting, Dayton Keffer

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Secrets, Soviets, and Sverdlovsk: Critiques of the Biological Weapons Convention and Biosecurity in the 1970s and 1980s, Morgan Kelley

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Incorporating Institutions and Ideology: Why COVID didn't Change Anything, Cullen Kendrick

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Medieval German Christian Women’s Religious Experience, Elliot Knell

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Exploring Fragmentation in Ali Smith’s Autumn, Emily Koberlein

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Learning with Mrs. Phelps, Alex Lagon

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The Dependent Nature of Enlightenment and Capitalism: Discourse on How Civilization Needs Capitalism to Curb the Effects of Enlightenment, Katriel Lee

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Enhancing Second Language Acquisition for University Students with Learning Disabilities: A Mixed-Methods Study, Nelson Leung

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The Effect of Social Isolation on Orexin Production and Hedonic Drive in Female Mice, Hudson J. McNerney and R. Parrish Waters

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Electing Generational Immigrants: Campaign Messaging Strategies of Asian American Candidates in Virginia, Jane Michael

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Analytical and Numerical Analysis of the SIRS Model, Catherine Nguyen

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Attachment to Diagnostic Labels: Social Media, Over Identification, and Self-Efficacy for Personal Recovery, Robert Oehler

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The Impact of Heterogeneous Voting Strategies and Candidate Issue Adaptation on Elections: An Agent-Based Model, Harmony Peura

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Is No News Good News?: Exploring the Impact of Social Media Use on Misinformation Beliefs, Corbin Poyer

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“This is Not a Game:” Exploring QAnon Conspiracy as an ARG Through the Lens of Theodor Adorno, Corbin Poyer

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Diaspora and Identity in Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth, Riley Prater

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Who’s Laughing Now? Comedy as Coping Mechanism and Critique in Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, Mihaughany Redd

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Inaba, Reimagined: An Analysis of Persona 4’s Rural Setting in a Neoliberal Context, Stanley Reid

The Plastic Purge: Life Without Plastic, Katherine Reif

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Presidential Influence on the Bureaucracy: The Curious Case of Lina Khan, Nickolas Remish

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State Antitrust Enforcement: Politics or Economics?, Nickolas Remish

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Fallen Creator and Failed Christ: An Exploration of Religious Imagery and Metafiction in Ian McEwan’s Atonement, Tabitha Robinson

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Unraveling the Threads: Memory and Narrative in Ian McEwan's Atonement, Emily Rooksby

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Perceived Normality of IPV and PTSD Symptoms as Moderators of the Relationship between IPV-Related Injury and Perceptions of Responsibility for IPV, Noel Shenk

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CLASSIFICATION OF TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS IN COSMOLOGICAL MODELS, Abigail Swanson

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Democracy and Organized Crime: The Case of Brazil, Abigail Tank

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Calculation and Statistical Analysis of Wins Above Replacement, Joshua Taylor

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Christian Nationalism’s Effect on Women's Socioeconomic Status in the United States, Chloe Vanderhoof

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The Effect of Gender Bias on the Confirmation Hearings of Federal District and Circuit Court Appointees, Hannah Walker

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5-Fluorouracil Induced Oxidative Stress is Variable Across Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cell Lines, Rachel L. Walker

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Companionship, Romance, and Self-Perception with Conversational Chatbots, Jonathan Windsor

Student Research from 2023

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Pupil Dilation is Not Associated with Memory for Prior Remembering, Sana Aftab

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Stories in Motion: Integrating Creative Dance in a Language Arts Classroom, Amira Akam

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Gender and Political Candidacy in Hampton Roads, Virginia, Mary-Elise Alworth