Student Research from 2024
Unwanted Pursuit Behaviors & Emotional Reactivity to Former Romantic Partners: An EEG Study, Ameer Abdel-Muhsin
Old Wives’ Tales: Collections from Beneath the Floorboards, Layla Barnes
Asian American Represenation in Sitcoms, Anna Blake
Programas de ELL dentro del área de Fredericksburg, VA: Una Descripción y Justificación para su Defensa, Natalie Buchanan
The Metaphor of Ekphrasis: or Why does your Ekphrasis look different from mine?, William Butler
Truth anti-smoking campaign: Messaging characteristics and the use of fear, Erin Caine
Unveiling the Threat- AI and Deepfakes' Impact on Women, Emily Chapman
“4, 24”, and 4c”: The Shared Knowledge of Hair Terminology and Cultural Pride Among Black Women., Aliya J. Claiborne
From Never Enough to Nothing at All: An Investigation of Political Commentary in Euripides' Medea, Eleanor Clark
Image Repair Strategies and Theories and the Lost Apology in Crisis Communication, Bridget Crowley
More than a Punchline: A Comparative Analysis of Diversity in Dropout.tv & CollegeHumor, Alexander Gluchowski
Establishment Support in Primary Elections: How Much Does It Matter?, Edward Haggerty
Boolean Group Structure in Class Groups of Positive Definite Quadratic Forms of Primitive Discriminant, Christopher Albert Hudert Jr.
From Goths to Romans? Changing Conceptions of Visigothic Kingship in the Reigns of Leovigild and Reccared, Lance Hungar
Tools of Oppression: The Virginia School System and the School to Prison Pipeline, Natalie Johnson-Abbott
Trump's 2016 Election Win: Why He Owes it to Jesus, Margaret Jones
The Prevalence of Anti-Feminist Content on TikTok and YouTube Shorts, Naomi Jones
Simulating Information and Communication Applications in Employee Interaction Network Models, Matthew Kanter
A Trump-Shaped Shadow: Demonstrating Competing Republican Identities to Gain Party Support, Amede Karina-Plun
Secrets, Soviets, and Sverdlovsk: Critiques of the Biological Weapons Convention and Biosecurity in the 1970s and 1980s, Morgan Kelley
"The Service of Bleakest Realism": Authorship, Guilt, and Forgiveness in Ian McEwan's Atonement, Emily Kile
Exploring Fragmentation in Ali Smith’s Autumn, Emily Koberlein
The Effect of Social Isolation on Orexin Production and Hedonic Drive in Female Mice, Hudson J. McNerney and R. Parrish Waters
Electing Generational Immigrants: Campaign Messaging Strategies of Asian American Candidates in Virginia, Jane Michael
Analytical and Numerical Analysis of the SIRS Model, Catherine Nguyen
Attachment to Diagnostic Labels: Social Media, Over Identification, and Self-Efficacy for Personal Recovery, Robert Oehler
The Impact of Heterogeneous Voting Strategies and Candidate Issue Adaptation on Elections: An Agent-Based Model, Harmony Peura
Is No News Good News?: Exploring the Impact of Social Media Use on Misinformation Beliefs, Corbin Poyer
“This is Not a Game:” Exploring QAnon Conspiracy as an ARG Through the Lens of Theodor Adorno, Corbin Poyer
Diaspora and Identity in Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth, Riley Prater
Who’s Laughing Now? Comedy as Coping Mechanism and Critique in Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, Mihaughany Redd
Presidential Influence on the Bureaucracy: The Curious Case of Lina Khan, Nickolas Remish
State Antitrust Enforcement: Politics or Economics?, Nickolas Remish
Fallen Creator and Failed Christ: An Exploration of Religious Imagery and Metafiction in Ian McEwan’s Atonement, Tabitha Robinson
Unraveling the Threads: Memory and Narrative in Ian McEwan's Atonement, Emily Rooksby
CLASSIFICATION OF TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS IN COSMOLOGICAL MODELS, Abigail Swanson
Democracy and Organized Crime: The Case of Brazil, Abigail Tank
Christian Nationalism’s Effect on Women's Socioeconomic Status in the United States, Chloe Vanderhoof
The Effect of Gender Bias on the Confirmation Hearings of Federal District and Circuit Court Appointees, Hannah Walker
Companionship, Romance, and Self-Perception with Conversational Chatbots, Jonathan Windsor
Student Research from 2023
Pupil Dilation is Not Associated with Memory for Prior Remembering, Sana Aftab
Stories in Motion: Integrating Creative Dance in a Language Arts Classroom, Amira Akam
Gender and Political Candidacy in Hampton Roads, Virginia, Mary-Elise Alworth
What Makes a Radical?: An exploration of sexism, social dominance orientation, and political violence., Cassandra Atkinson
Culture as Capital: Slavery as an Instrument of Cultural Exchange in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Ottoman Empire, Laura Baldwin
The Curia Julia: Its History, Materials, Use, and Preservation through the Centuries, Katharine Bogen
Redefining Unnatural: A Modern Understanding of Paul’s Homophobia, Emma Bradley
Using Machine Learning to Measure Political Polarization on Social Media, Veronica Cagle
COVID-19's Effects on Students' Educational Growth, Anna Chavez Maples
goddess of., Megan Childs
Mental Health in M*A*S*H: An Analysis of the Changing Portrayal of Mental Health Topics in the 1970s and Early 1980s, Lyndsey Clark
HSP90 and Triglyceride Levels in Partially Migratory Canada Geese (Branta canadensis) Populations, Audra Cote
“Every Nation Except Our Own”: The Social Gospel, Anti-Immigrant Sentiments, and U.S. Foreign Policy, Andrea Darmawan
"Like a Shadow or Even a Dream": Memory and Haptic Motifs on Classical Attic Funerary Stelai, Vonne Daszkilewicz
Characterization of Toxoplasma gondii Calcium regulator proteins TGGT1_253640 and TGGT1_222060 for Toxoplasma gondii growth and invasion, Abigail Delapenha
From Enslaver to White Savior: The Blackford Family and the Memory of the American Colonization Society, Helen Dhue
Using GIS to estimate the Solar Power potential for rooftops within the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C., Cole Farnsworth
From Daimones to Demons: Exorcisms and Cultural Constructions of the Demonic in Late Antique Egypt, Madeleine Gulbransen
Testing of Indazole Inhibitors of KasA, a Vital Enzyme of M. tuberculosis, Karissa Highlander
Caron's Japan: Tokugawa State and Society through a European Lens, Cegan Hinson
Women and Authority during the Protestant Reformation, Andrew Hudgins
Lady Winters, Madeline Ice
The Creation of Political Survival Strategies by Black Collegiate Women on Virginia’s Predominantly White Campuses, Maya Jenkins
Heilbronn im Jahr 1945: Warum Hier, Alexander Keuerleber
Resolver un problema por medio del método científico en el siglo XVIII: La Junta de Damas y la Inclusa, Madeline Clare Killian
Using a Distributive Approach to Model Insurance Loss, Kayla Kippes
A Rhetorical Criticism of “Bothsidesism” in Journalism, Jess Kirby
Playing George et al. in Nickel and Dimed, Oscar León
Save the Dragon, Emily Malone
Llevando lo público a lo privado: El papel de las mujeres en las tertulias en la España dieciochesca, Julia May
A Critical Review of Animal and Fetus Rights in Utilitarianism or “How Come When It’s Us, It’s an Abortion, and When It’s a Chicken, It’s an Omelette?”, Katharine McDaid
Sex in the Cities: A Comparative Analysis of Vienna and The United States’ Efforts in Gender Mainstreaming Transportation, Sarah Miller
Apoptosis Induction in Jurkat T-Lymphocytes by Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs), Shreya Murali and Randall Reif
The Effect of Fluorouracil on Pathogenic and Non-pathogenic Oral Microorganisms and Microbial Interactions with Preventative Measures: A Preliminary Study, Valeria Ortiz Jimenez and Lynn Lewis
How Does Tik-Tok Present the Mid-Size Community?, Evelyn Ovando-Flores
Tourism Marketing to Southeast Asian Countries via Social Media and its Ethical Implications, Emma Parker
The Curious Incident of the Senior with a Project, Ethan Pearson
Beyond Romanization: An Indigenous Study of Cultural Change in Classical Britain, Brooke Prevedel
Demythologizing Homer: Investigating Religion in Minoan Crete, Elizabeth Rybarczyk
Down The Great Unknown: My discovery of Seneca Howland and Just Jim in UMW Theatres' production of Men On Boats, Mina Sollars
The Potential of Polysemy in Video Games: A Case Study of Elden Ring, Ryan Vanderhoof
Engaging Drama: Does Drama Increase Student Engagement in a Second-Grade History Class?, Jasmine Villanueva
Localization of CTG-Repeat-Containing Transgenes in Drosophila melanogaster Myotonic Dystrophy Models, Andrea Waltrip
Dorian and the Double: Repressed Homosexual Desire in The Picture of Dorian Gray, Alexandra Wohlford
Student Research from 2022
Beware the Ides of March: A Digital Journal on the Acting Process in Julius Caesar, Sterling Barbett
The Ethics of Care and the U.S. Covid-19 Pandemic Response, Samantha Treveline Barrett
Borderline Personality Symptoms and Relationship Threat: The Moderating Role of Perceived Parental Rejection, Elsa Baumgartner
A Content Analysis of Queer Slang on Tik Tok, Kuri Benitez
Social Media, Humor, and Crisis Health Communication: Humor Used to Inform Over Social Media During COVID-19, Sally Burkley
The Relationship Between Late Night, Twitter, and Political Literacy in 2020, Sally Burkley
Reforming the United States’ Currency Production, William Cather
Theatre Senior Project - Columbia in The Rocky Horror Show, Hannah Chester
Rank versus Romance: The Relationship of Class and Courtship in Burney's Evelina, Lucy Clark