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2023 Mathias Student Research Conference

Excellence in scholarship and creative works awarded

This year, the College of Arts and Sciences hosted its largest-ever Mathias Student Research Conference, with more than 300 participants including students, presenters, judges, moderators, and staff. In all, the conference featured more than 120 panel and poster competitions. Ìý

This was the 33rd annualÌýconference, which isÌýfunded in part by a generous grant from the late Robyn Rafferty Mathias, AU trustee and alumna.ÌýIt was also the first year in which the conference was held in person on AU’s campus, after several years of virtual conferences. Ìý

With so many participants, panels, and poster competitions, competition was fierce. Read on to learn about the well-deserving winners: Ìý

Graduate Student Winners

Christine Bresnahan

Christine Bresnahan

A Spatial Thinking Intervention for Young Adults with Dyslexia

Natural Sciences Final Work

Milton Garcia

Milton Garcia

PocketLegal, Beta 3: Exploring Open-Access API Content & Features to Create a Legal Literacy Dashboard, a rapid deployed Web Application on Heroku.

Physical Sciences Poster

Lauren Huber

Lauren Huber

Revolutionary Expectations: An Analysis of the Women at Valley Forge Encampment During the Â鶹´«Ã½ Revolution

Graduate Arts & Humanities Poster

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Ben Klosky

Police Apprenticeships: Case Study

Graduate Social Sciences Workshop

NathanMoore

Nathan Moore

You Have the Right to Revolt: Anti-Capitalism and Anglo-Â鶹´«Ã½ Trial Culture

Graduate Arts & Humanities Workshop

Jazelle Pilato

Jazelle Pilato

The Impact of SES in Visuospatial Thinking: Neural Correlates and the Impact on Academic Outcomes

Graduate Natural Sciences Poster

Harmain Rafi

Harmain Rafi

SLEAP: Video Analysis for Understanding Animal Behavior

Graduate Natural Sciences Workshop

Katherine Ryan

Katherine Ryan

The Miccosukee Tribe's Path to Federal Recognition

Graduate Arts & Humanities Workshop

Sydney Sachs

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Music as a Memory Enhancer: A Music Therapy Web Application for Dementia Patients

Graduate Physical Sciences Workshop

Madeline Tinsl

Madeline Tinsley

Appealing to Class Audiences and Mass Audiences: The Cultural Perception of Shakespeare in Hollywood from 1929 to 1953

Graduate Arts & Humanities Final Work

Samantha White

Samantha White

Learning to Choose: dynamic processes underlie decision making in rat medial frontal cortex

Graduate Natural Sciences Poster

Joyce Wong

Joyce Wong

Validation of a Developmentally Sensitive Measure of Intolerance of Uncertainty in Children: Youth Intolerance of Uncertainty – Parent Report

Graduate Social Sciences Poster

Undergraduate Winners

James Alvarez

James Alvarez

"Permeable Road Infrastructure Proposal in the Washington, DC,ÌýNavy Yard Area"

Natural Sciences Workshop

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Negar Ghasem (Nina) Ardabili

The Effects of Cocaine, on Hippocampal Dependent Memory in a Mouse Model

Undergraduate Physical Sciences Final Work

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Sydney CervenyÌý

Chronic Morphine Impairs Interoceptive Control: Implications for Dysregulated Drug IntakeÌý

Undergraduate Natural Sciences Poster

Jake Coasby

Jake Coasby

Permeable Road Infrastructure Proposal in the Washington, DC, Navy Yard Area

Undergraduate Natural Sciences Workshop

Lia Dolive

Lia Dolive

Iron Handling in the Tumor Microenvironment

Undergraduate Physical Sciences Poster

Trevaughn Ellis

TreVaughn Ellis

The Devil worm’s efficient mitochondria; Adaptation of H. Mephisto’s electron transport chain in extreme conditions

Undergraduate Natural Sciences Workshop

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Rohin Ghosh

Perspectives of the LAYC Career Academy Students

Undergraduate Social Sciences Final Work

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Grennon Gurney

Distribution and scaling of complexity in Conway's Game of Life, and connections to nonequilibrium dynamics

Undergraduate Physical Sciences Workshop

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Alexia Hyde

The Effects of HIV (Change that to Cocaine), on Hippocampal Dependent Memory in a Mouse Model

Undergraduate Physical Sciences Final Work

Carly Johnson

Carly Johnson

Notes Towards a Theory of Ideological Online Boredom

Undergraduate Arts & Humanities Final Work

Alexandra Kauffman

Alexandra KauffmanÌý

Identification of Denervation Muscle Atrophy Markers in a Mouse Model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 3

Undergraduate Natural Sciences Final Work

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Timothy ManugianÌýÌý

The Staying Power of the Klan: An Investigation of Groton, Massachusetts

Undergraduate Arts & Humanities Poster

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Alan Martinez

Perspectives of the LAYC Career Academy Students

Undergraduate Social Sciences Final Work

Jordyn Pettiford 2

Jordyn A. Pettiford

The Effects of HIV (Change that to Cocaine), on Hippocampal Dependent Memory in a Mouse Model

Undergraduate Physical Sciences Final Work

Emma Pilz

Emma Pilz

Trapped Rats do not Find Restraint Tubes Aversive

Undergraduate Social Sciences Poster

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Eli Pine

Decreasing the Surplus Population: Anti-trans* Legislation as Capitalist Political Economy

Undergraduate Social Sciences Workshop

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María Victoria Suárez Molina

Perspectives of the LAYC Career Academy Students

Undergraduate Social Sciences Final Work

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Ethan Steere

Chronic Morphine Impairs Interoceptive Control: Implications for Dysregulated Drug IntakeÌý

Undergraduate Natural Sciences Poster

Ian Whitehouse

Ian Whitehouse

Gravitational Wave Detection with Novel Machine Learning Models

Undergraduate Physical Sciences Poster

Anushka Valsan

Anushka Valsan

Chronic Morphine Impairs Interoceptive Control: Implications for Dysregulated Drug IntakeÌý

Undergraduate Natural Sciences Poster

Alex Zaky

Alex Zaky

Trans Grief and Identity Formation

Undergraduate Arts & Humanities Workshop