Oral Presentations

9:00-9:50am

HCC 210

Moderator: Dr. Jackie Gallagher

  1. New Insights from Old Sources: Using Hot Spot Analysis of Fire Insurance Documents to Characterize the c. 1800 Built Environment of Fredericksburg, Va, Grace Hannah Buck
  2. Analyzing Landscapes of Architecture and Society: A Case Study of Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, Grace Gower
  3. The impact of traffic on Red-Tailed Hawks in Shenandoah National Park, Ainsley Lord.

HCC 307

Moderator: Dr. Brad Lamphere

  1. Investigating Methionine Restriction–Induced Pyroptosis as a Mechanism for Enhanced Chemotherapy Response in TNBC, Brooke Martin.
  2. Character Displacement Caused by Closely Related Native and Invasive Species, Daniel Martinez.
  3. Size Dependent Predation on Eastern Oysters (Crassostrea virginica) in the Tidal Rappahannock Estuary, Chessa Lowery.
  4. Myotube and endothelial cell coculture optimization to determine the effect of DM1 on angiogenesis, Emily Boyd.

HCC 328

Moderator: Dr. Jennifer Walker

  1. Disability Representation in Children’s Picture Books, Audrey Howell.
  2. Unpacking the Pink Tax: Global Trends and Local Solutions, Ashlyn Diederich.
  3. In Jesus Name: How evangelism was used against Indigenous Peoples and African Americans, Carolyn Jenkins.
  4. History Rewritten: My Fellowship with the Digital Knowledge Center, Connor O’Brien.

10:00-10:50am

HCC 210

Moderator: Dr. Marisa Martínez-Mira

  1. Exploitation of Lithium in the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia: Literary Analysis of Flor de sal (2019) and Altiplano: Tumbos y tropiezos (2020), Melanie Linares.
  2. Lost in Translation? Examining Language Barriers & Patient Care at Mary Washington Hospital, Edward Villegas.
  3. Loanwords and the Survival of the Basque Language, Wiley Prior.
  4. Genderama, Allon Boettcher.

HCC 307

Moderator: Dr. Andrea Smith

  1. FXBG Beautiful, Natalie Baki, Brianna Miles, Luke Hearsey, Sam Martin, Grace Gower, Marlowe Ryan.
  2. If there is a god, he’ll have to beg for my forgiveness: How Judaism survived World War Two in Poland, Adam Shinberg.
  3. A Harmonious Legal System: True Justice Through Modernized Platonic Marxism, Cian Batarla
  4. Mathematics and the Necessity of Thought: A Defense of Rational Realism, Adelaide Gill.

HCC 328

Moderator: Dr. Randall Reif

  1. Using Hubble Space Telescope Observations to Study Dark Matter Deficient Galaxies, Grace Dulay.
  2. Development of a method to analyze the effect of proton pump inhibitors on cancer cells, Franco Trujillo.
  3. Reinforcement Learning: Does Memory Improve an AI’s Performance?, Olivia Buchanan.
  4. Modeling Bitcoin Dynamics Using Differential Equations, Boone Fleenor.

11:00-11:50am

HCC 210

Moderator: Dr. Jackie Gallagher

  1. Evaluating Accessibility in Public Transit: A Case Study of Fredericksburg’s FREDGO! Bus System, Allison Parrish.
  2. The Persistence of Exclusion: Spatial Analysis of Racial Covenants and Their Distribution, Natalie Lee.
  3. From Restriction to Resilience: Mapping the History of Racial Boundaries in Fredericksburg, Maggie Alt.

HCC 307

Moderator: Dr. Dianne Baker

  1. New antimicrobial agents on the block: Testing synthetic drug compounds on surrogate organism Mycobacterium aurum, Aiddah Rotich.
  2. Sex or Survival: Does Wounding Elicit a Somatic Reproductive Tradeoff in Narnia femorata Males?, Lillian Burbulis .
  3. The Effects of Perfluoroundecanoic Acid on the HPT Axis in Zebrafish, Ashlynn Peszko.

HCC 328

Moderator: Dr. Jared McDonald

  1. U.S. Arctic Policy in the High North, Ayiana Allen.
  2. A comparison of propaganda in Russia and China, Matthew Clark.
  3. “HE SHOULD BE PRIMARIED, and I will lead the charge against him”: An Autopsy on the Decline of Grassroots Organizing and Rhetoric in a Monetized Democracy, Chiara Baez.
  4. Vote16, Cameron Spivy, Alanah Muller, Zoe Rapp.

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