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SESSION : WILD CARD
CARA Project Blitz--research by first-year presidential scholars |
Diamond Ostrove
Session Sponsor: Martha Arterberry |
| 9:00 am - 9:55 am |
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9:00 - Sethares, Lileana A. ('21) |
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The Symbolism and Use of Water in Japanese Anime |
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9:04 - Marchant, Sam W. ('21) |
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With Intent to Kill: Apoptotic Response to Anti-cancer Drugs in Human Leukemia Cells |
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9:08 - Anderson, Aliza M. ('21) |
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DrinkingCulture@colby.edu |
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9:12 - Hartnett, Hannah O. ('21) |
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Transforming Rural Educational Experience: Understanding School Success in Children |
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9:20 - Guo, Moshan ('21) and Heisler, Alexandra R. ('21) |
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Buzzed Flies: The Effect of Caffeine on the Ethanol Sedation Rate of Fruit Flies |
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9:24 - Neumiller, Grace C. ('21) |
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Fact or Fraud: Memory for Real and Fake News |
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9:32 - Lermond, Jacklyn A. ('21) and Broadwater, Macey R. ('21) |
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Making an Impact: The Youth Concussion Project |
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9:36 - Allen, Meredith H. ('21) |
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Where in the World are Women in Art? |
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9:40 - Oh-Willeke, Grace ('21) |
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The Enlightenment Origins of Data |
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9:44 - Bassman-Lyons, Alli ('21) and Gould, Samantha ('21) |
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GIS and Large Landscape Conservation in the High Peaks of Maine |
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SESSION : ART
Capstone Projects: Art Historians at Work |
Bixler 154
Session Sponsor: Ankeney Weitz |
| 9:00 am - 11:25 am |
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9:00 - Coakley, Signy C. ('18) |
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Joseph Wright of Derby and His Experimentation of Light |
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9:13 - Ding, Ling ('18) |
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The Mysterious Long-Lost Kingdom in Tibet: Murals from the White Temple of Tholing Monastery |
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9:26 - Egner, John E. ('18) |
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Abstracting Reality and Redefining Aesthetics: The Socially Conscious Work of Mark Bradford and Theaster Gates |
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9:39 - Wei, Gillian ('18) |
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The Intersection of Class and Art: Reading Manet's Olympia Through Bourdieu |
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9:52 - Martin, Emily M. ('18) |
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Disability Studies in Art History: Encountering Disability |
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10:05 - Nuckols, Clara R. ('18) |
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Viewing Rothko |
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10:18 - Oleynik, Nina K. ('18) |
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Identity, Hybridity and Change: Animal Forms in the Work of Female Surrealist Artists |
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10:31 - Restrepo, Katherine P. ('18) |
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Subversive and Satirical: How Laurie Simmons and Cindy Sherman Challenged Outdated Representations of Women through their Photography |
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10:44 - Ryan, Katherine E. ('18) |
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"Women's Work": Contemporary Embroidery in the Western World |
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10:57 - Stanfill, Jina ('18) |
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The New Woman: Fashion Photography in American Vogue During the 1970 |
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11:10 - Hill, Nora M. ('18) |
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Nazi Imagery and Collective Memory in the Posters of the Atelier Populaire |
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SESSION : BIOLOGY
Honors Projects |
Diamond 145
Session Sponsor: Lynn Hannum |
| 9:00 am - 11:55 am |
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9:00 - Desrochers, Stephanie S. ('18) |
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Longitudinal evaluation of DISC1 knockout rats reveals sexually dimorphic patterns of impairment across development |
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9:25 - Kim, Brian Seung_Taek ('18) |
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Spatial and temporal variation of lake metabolism in New England lakes |
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9:50 - Miranda-Katz, Margot R. ('18) |
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A transcriptomic analysis of Haloferax volcanii under osmotic stress |
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10:15 - Park, Julia M. ('18) |
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The effects of nutrient limitation on toxin production for the harmful algal bloom species, Pseudo-nitzschia, in the Gulf of Maine |
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10:40 - Swart, Jane S. ('18) |
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The role of ERK and insulin pathway cross-talk in wing development in Jadera haematoloma |
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11:05 - Wilson, Caroline M. ('18) |
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Variant of human CHMP2B gene responsible for frontotemporal dementia can disrupt sensory organ de velopment in Drosophila |
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11:30 - Ye, Jiayu ('18) |
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DNA replication of templates modified by anti-cancer drugs |
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SESSION : COMPUTER SCIENCE
Honors Projects, Independent Study Projects |
Davis 117
Session Sponsor: Bruce Maxwell |
| 9:00 am - 10:25 am |
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9:00 - Chance, Graham T. ('18) |
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Functional Programming and its Modern Implications |
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9:20 - Chistolini, Victoria A. ('18) |
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Species Distribution Model Development and Validation |
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9:40 - Ali, Fatimah ('19) and Abulhab, Zena ('19) |
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Understanding the Effects of Interaction on Trust in Artificial Bots |
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10:00 - McDonell, Kyle ('18) |
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Learning to Communicate and Cooperate with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning |
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SESSION : EAST ASIAN STUDIES
Honors Projects, Senior Capstone Projects |
Diamond 221
Session Sponsor: Kim Besio |
| 9:00 am - 10:25 am |
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9:00 - MacLean, A. C._Ling ('18) |
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Model Mules? A History of Asian Students at Colby College, 1954-2014 |
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9:40 - Das Gupta, Gayatri ('18) |
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After the 2008 Tainted Formula Scandal: Infant Formula Preferences in China |
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10:00 - Settele, Kristen H. ('18) |
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China and Angola: Oil Relationship in Crisis |
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SESSION : ECONOMICS
Senior Theses |
Diamond 141
Session Sponsor: Michael Donihue |
| 9:00 am - 11:55 am |
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9:00 - Al-Shakhshir, Daliah ('18) |
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Governance and Corruption in the Middle East and North Africa: A Neoclassical Analysis |
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9:15 - Barnatchez, Keith ('18) |
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Employer Mandates and Firm Dynamics |
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9:30 - Beland, Jason T. ('18) |
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An Analysis of the Demand Functions Faced by New England Region Alpine Ski Resorts |
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9:45 - Dinelli, Mirco ('18) |
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Sacrifice, Benefit, and Reciprocity: Evidence from a Trust Game |
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10:00 - Do, Chi Y. ('18) |
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Stock Price Reaction to Cash Dividend Changes: Comparison Between the US and European Market |
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10:15 - Mohanty, Yashaswi ('18) |
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Mechanism Design, Matching Theory and the College Housing Allocation Process |
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10:30 - Murray, Clare F. ('18) |
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Arts Education: A Philanthropic Priority? |
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10:45 - Ng, Stephanie ('18) |
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The impact of MTR stations on Housing Price in Hong Kong: An Empirical Study based on Hedonic Pricing Model |
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11:00 - Young, Joshua A. ('18) |
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What Effects Did United Airlines' De-Hubbing of Cleveland Hopkins International Airport Have on Cleveland Passengers? |
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11:15 - Choephel, Tenzin C. ('18) |
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Environmental Regulation: Effects on Economic Growth |
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11:30 - Decker, Michael W. ('18) |
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Building Ecolabeling's Effect on Boston's Commercial Office Markets |
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SESSION : ENGLISH
Honors Projects |
Diamond 342
Session Sponsor: Megan Cook |
| 9:00 am - 10:55 am |
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9:00 - Alenson, Grant E. ('18) |
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Beckett and Joyce: Influenced to Be an Other |
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9:25 - Desjardins, Ryanne M. ('18) |
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Talking About Race: The Influence of Transatlantic 17th and 18th Century British Literature on Colonial Racial |
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9:50 - Jones, Natalie K. ('18) |
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Beyond Normativity: Queerness and Perversity in the Works of Gertrude Stein and Juliana Spahr |
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10:15 - Macdonald, Tyler H. ('18) |
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African-American Poetry, Music, and Politics |
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SESSION : ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Honors Projects, Independent Study Projects |
Diamond 122
Session Sponsor: Philip Nyhus |
| 9:00 am - 11:55 am |
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9:00 - Zebrowski, Wesley ('18) |
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Biodiversity Conservation as an Adaptation Strategy in Response to Climatic and Economic Shifts: Species Stewardship in Sacred Forests and Smallholder Crop Fields in Eastern Africa |
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9:25 - Wang, Chengyang ('18) |
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Stable Bromine Isotopic Signature of Bromoform from Enzymatic and Abiotic Formation Pathways and its Application in Identifying Sources of Environmental Bromoform in Damariscotta River |
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9:50 - Kullberg, Alyssa T. ('18) |
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Presence and Potential Sources of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Product Chemicals in Messalonskee Lake |
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10:25 - Hawkinson, Vivian F. ('18) |
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Developing generalizable spatial patterns of human-wildlife conflict |
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10:50 - Ravenelle, Jeremy P. ('18) |
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Waste Reduction in Public School Cafeterias through Sorting and Diversion: An Analysis of Three Southern Maine Schools |
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11:15 - Dodge, Henry A. ('18) |
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Breaking down barriers: using Brownian bridge movement models and point pattern analysis to analyze a seasonal migration of zebra (Equus quagga) in the Makgadikgadi-Nxai Pans conservation area |
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SESSION : FRENCH
Senior Seminar: Wrting of Place: Migration, Nationalism, and Memory |
Diamond 344
Session Sponsor: Mouhamedoul Niang |
| 9:00 am - 10:25 am |
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9:00 - Hirano, Asami ('18) |
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L'aîné des orphelins -- la problématique de la mémoire pendant le génocide rwandais |
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9:20 - Rhodes, Nicholas B. ('18) |
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À la porte l'entre-deux: la construction et la revendication de l'identité de l'émigré dans Le Ventre de l'Atlantique de Fatou Diome |
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9:40 - Seck, Adji Astou ('20) |
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La représentation du personnage de l'immigré: son rôle dans l'argumentation de Fatou Diome |
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10:00 - Shoer, Sarah A. ('18) |
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Feminism and Post-colonial criticism in Fatou Diome's Le Ventre de l'Atlantique |
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SESSION : GERMAN
Senior Seminar: Ideologies and Identities |
Diamond 242
Session Sponsor: Alicia Ellis |
| 9:00 am - 9:55 am |
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9:00 - Caughron, Anna M. ('18) |
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Literary Analysis of W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants |
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9:12 - Hale, Christopher H. ('18) |
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Franz Kafka's Animal Stories: Examining the Other to Deconstruct the Self |
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9:24 - Lyons, Alexa S. ('18) |
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Time and Memory Examined Through Narrative Structure in Anna Seghers: Transformation Rather Than Transcendence |
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9:36 - Walters, Kylie R. ('18) |
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"You Must Change Your Life": Reverence for the Object in Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo" |
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SESSION : GLOBAL STUDIES
Honors Projects |
Diamond 343
Session Sponsor: Maple Razsa |
| 9:00 am - 9:55 am |
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9:00 - Endicott, Julia C. ('18) |
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Welcome To Europe: Consequences of the E.U.-Turkey Deal on Refugee Health and Well-Being on Lesvos |
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9:25 - Hill, Nora M. ('18) |
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Drawing Borders: Images and Representation of Migrant Mobility on the Balkan Route |
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SESSION : HISTORY
Senior Seminar: The American Civil War |
Diamond 223
Session Sponsor: Elizabeth Leonard |
| 9:00 am - 10:25 am |
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9:00 - Alden, John R. ('18) |
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The Louisiana Native Guard and the Civil War as a "Social Good" |
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9:07 - Byrnes, Annie R. ('19) |
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Divided State: Maryland Soldiers During the Civil War |
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9:14 - Entwistle, Molly O. ('18) |
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The Moral Fabric of the North |
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9:21 - Fressilli, Mathias F. ('18) |
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Nice Dream: Forty Acres and a Mule |
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9:28 - Glynn-Ferrarone, Luke ('18) |
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The Impact of the Crimean War on the American Civil War |
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9:35 - Krumholz, Samuel L. ('18) |
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The Role of Religion in the Fight over Emancipation |
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9:42 - Pappas, John D. ('18) |
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What Really Happened at Antietam: Eyewitnesses versus Historians |
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9:49 - Robertson, Samantha F. ('18) |
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Civil War Soldiers and Mental Health |
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9:56 - Sparacio, Christian R. ('18) |
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The 22nd United States Colored Infanry: Unsung Heroes of the Union Army |
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10:03 - Walkey, William C. ('18) |
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Teaching about the Civil War in Different Times and Places |
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10:10 - Watson, Andrew D. ('18) |
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The Influence of Sherman's Capture of Atlanta on Northern Views of Grant's Overland Campaign |
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SESSION : ITALIAN
Italian Student Research |
Diamond 241
Session Sponsor: Gianluca Rizzo |
| 9:00 am - 10:25 am |
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9:00 - Eber, Iliana S. ('20) |
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Sweet Hypocrisy: A Journey from the Streets of Brooklyn to the Hallways of Lovejoy |
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9:25 - Schiller, Benjamin R. ('18) |
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A Four-Star Stoic in Dante's Purgatorio |
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9:50 - Singh, Haransh ('18) |
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Nature: Leopardi and Calvino |
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SESSION : WOMEN'S, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES
Senior seminar: Gender and Violence |
Diamond 243
Session Sponsor: Lisa Arellano |
| 9:00 am - 10:55 am |
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9:00 - Plunkett, Molly H. ('18) |
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Constitution of Naturopathic Medicine in Central Maine |
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9:18 - Burgos, Margaret X. ('18) |
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9:36 - Dorsey, Greta L. ('18) |
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Women, Agency, and Birth |
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9:54 - Snyder, Abigail L. ('18) |
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Queer Eye & Queer Politics: How the Fab 5 Assimilated |
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10:12 - Carmack, Adrienne ('18) |
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Baby Mamas: Reproduction in Lesbian Families |
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SESSION : GENERAL SESSION
Social Science Presentations |
Diamond 323
Session Sponsor: Laine Thielstrom |
| 9:00 am - 10:25 am |
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9:00 - Dixon, Nile E. ('20) |
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The Influence of High Profile Incidents of Police Violence on Calls for Service |
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9:15 - Vaitkeviciute, Aiste ('18) |
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From USSR to the European Union: Transforming Gender Equality in Lithuania. |
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9:30 - Kaplan, Zoe Ellen ('18) |
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Hitting close to home: The Opioid Epidemic in Maine and the Bullshit Hindering its Abatement |
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SESSION : WILD CARD
Universal Experiences: Designing Your Future - Davis Connects |
Diamond Ostrove
Session Sponsor: Alisa Johnson |
| 10:00 am - 10:55 am |
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LaMarre, Lily F. ('18), Lopez, Graciela ('18) and Brown, Tahj ('20) |
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SESSION : GERMAN
ConTexts in German Culture |
Diamond 242
Session Sponsor: Rory Bradley |
| 10:00 am - 10:25 am |
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10:00 - Bruce, Amy E. ('19) |
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Personal Responses to Vergangenheitsbewältigung |
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10:05 - Holland, Elizabeth M. ('19) |
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Dealing with the Past Through Post WWII Literature |
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10:12 - Skodock, Myriam ('21) |
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10:18 - Winkelman, Cassandra J. ('21) |
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The Evolution of Vergangenheitsbewältigung |
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SESSION : PSYCHOLOGY
Honors Projects |
Diamond 153
Session Sponsor: Chris Soto |
| 10:00 am - 11:25 am |
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10:00 - Adams, Elizabeth H. ('18) |
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Examining Coping and Resilience Development During Emerging Adulthood. |
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10:25 - Tice, Chiara L. ('18) |
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Using the Power of Imagination to Decrease Stigma towards Depression |
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10:50 - Yu, Zhichun ('18) |
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Metacognition and False Memory |
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SESSION : FRENCH
Creolization and Social Change in Francophone America |
Diamond 344
Session Sponsor: Benedicte Mauguiere |
| 10:30 am - 11:55 am |
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10:30 - Cheff, Victoria A. ('18) |
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Oral traditions of the indigenous peaople of Quebec |
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11:00 - Kirkwood, Kailey S. ('20) |
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Créolisation et routes migratoires en Guyane |
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11:15 - Hirano, Asami ('18) and Horwood, Bridget E. ('19) |
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Migratory routes and creolization in Acadia |
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11:30 - Shoer, Sarah A. ('18) |
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Between Lapin and Bouki: French and African Influences in Louisiana's oral tradition |
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SESSION : HISTORY
Europe and the Second World War |
Diamond 223
Session Sponsor: Raffael Scheck |
| 10:30 am - 11:55 am |
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10:30 - Bao, Yilei ('20) |
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The Ardennes: The Achilles' Heel of France |
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10:42 - Byrnes, Annie R. ('19) |
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The Collective Memory of the Italian Partisan Resistance |
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10:54 - Holland, Elizabeth Mabel ('20) |
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Saving the Children: A Comprehensive Study of Government-Implemented Evacuation Programs for Children in Britain, France, and Germany in World War II |
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11:06 - Kim, Harris K. ('20) |
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German Defeat or Soviet Victory? |
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11:18 - White, Margaret S. ('20) |
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Wonder Drug: The Role of Penicillin in World War II |
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11:30 - Hanson, Eleanor A. ('18) |
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History Honors Thesis Defense |
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SESSION : EAST ASIAN STUDIES
Second Language Pedagogy |
Diamond 221
Session Sponsor: Andie Wang |
| 10:30 am - 10:55 am |
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10:30 - Au, Jamie H. ('18), Hirano, Asami ('18) and Beach, Alexander I. ('18) |
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Why does everyone need to know about second language acquisition? And what do we need to know? |
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10:38 - Gonzalez Martinez, Stephanie N. ('20), Marcus, Jessica E. ('21) and Lee, Crystal P. ('20) |
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Why does everyone need to know about second language acquisition? And what do we need to know? |
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10:46 - Chen, Wen-Hui, Taylor, Jonathan B. ('21), Winkelman, Cassandra J. ('21) and Yang, Ruyu ('21) |
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Why does everyone need to know about second language acquisition? And what do we need to know? |
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SESSION : WILD CARD
Visual Storytelling |
Diamond Ostrove
Session Sponsor: Erin Murphy |
| 11:00 am - 11:55 am |
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Ashley, Ethan T. ('19) |
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A Good Life Ever Since |
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Benjamin, Connor J. ('18) |
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The College Vs. The City |
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Brashich, Elizabeth A. ('21) |
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A Shadow of the Past |
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Cao, Michelle ('21) |
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Women's Health at Colby |
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Crisp, Thomas ('19) |
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SPACE, or Meditations on Four Sides |
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Dangui, Saduo ('20) |
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"IT's" in Maine |
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Jutras, Jacqueline V. ('21) |
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Lost Ski Areas of Maine |
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Lee, Annie H. ('20) |
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Wabanahkik |
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Martell, Annika L. ('20) |
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Rise Up |
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Robinson, Carter W. ('21) |
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Colby Frats |
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Russell, Paige H. ('20) |
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Swish |
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Southwick, Hannah S. ('21) |
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Shadows of the Past |
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Vaitkeviciute, Aiste ('18) |
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Just Lobster |
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SESSION : PHILOSOPHY
Honors Projects |
Diamond 241
Session Sponsor: Keith Peterson |
| 11:00 am - 11:55 am |
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11:00 - Lam, Ryan C. ('18) |
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Political Philosophy of the 'Impossible': Domination, Anarchism, and Social Movements |
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SESSION : PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
Honors Projects |
Davis 301
Session Sponsor: Charlie Conover |
| 11:00 am - 11:55 am |
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11:00 - Bossi, Hannah J. ('18) |
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Lorentz Symmetry Breaking in Horava Gravity |
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11:25 - Wen, Yuewei ('18) |
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Investigating Lorentz Symmetry Breaking in Massive Gravity Theories and Potential Signatures in Matter Interactions |
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SESSION : THEATER AND DANCE
Senior Seminar |
Diamond 123
Session Sponsor: Jim Thurston |
| 11:00 am - 11:55 am |
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11:00 - Book, Kelsey R. ('18) |
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The Theater Industry and Mental Health Issues |
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11:00 - Borges, Julia ('18) |
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Reimagining Movement Practices Through Childhood Games |
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11:00 - Mariani, Joseph R.,, III ('18) |
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The Arts and Psychotherapy: How Theater Can Affect People With Autism |
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11:00 - Monteleone, Katelyn J. ('18) |
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Audience Identity and Agency in Immersive Theater |
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11:00 - Morrissette, Kyah A. ('18) |
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How Your Theater and Dance Major Uniquely Prepares You For Any Job |
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11:00 - Pattison, Nicholas M. ('18) |
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Staging Age in Contemporary American Theater |
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11:00 - Soucek, Lucy E. ('18) |
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The Changing Face of Ballet Today |
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SESSION : PHI BETA KAPPA
David H. Mills Memorial Speech Contest |
Page Commons
Session Sponsor: Travis Reynolds |
| 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm |
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Carmack, Adrienne ('18) |
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Snyder, Mark W. ('18) |
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Dangui, Saduo ('20) |
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Paulino, Elizabeth ('18) |
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Zebrowski, Wesley ('18) |
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Vu Thanh Vy, Radhika ('18) |
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SESSION : WILD CARD
Transdisciplinary Humanities |
Diamond Ostrove
Session Sponsor: Adrianna Paliyenko |
| 1:00 pm - 1:55 pm |
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1:00 - Gallagher, Natasha N. ('20) |
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I Always Write of You: Muse and Writing Style with Shakespeare |
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1:06 - Alvarado, Josephina E. ('20) and Grant, Maya P. ('21) |
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Hope and Hopelessness in 19th-Century French Art Forms |
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1:16 - Beaulieu, Charlotte A. ('20) |
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The Origins of Zola's Experimental/Naturalist Novel La bête humaine |
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1:22 - Cheff, Victoria A. ('18) |
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Images of the Home: A Creative Nonfiction Reading |
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1:28 - Monteleone, Katelyn J. ('18) |
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Immersive Theater and the Creative Process |
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1:34 - Soucek, Lucy E. ('18) |
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Inter-Religious and Inter-Cultural Bonds in the Language of Colors |
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SESSION : AMERICAN STUDIES
Honors Projects |
Diamond 123
Session Sponsor: Laura Saltz |
| 1:00 pm - 1:55 pm |
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1:00 - Friedman, Isabel P. ('18) |
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Rusticators, Resorts, and Road Trips: The Construction of Maine as Vacationland from 1845 to the Present |
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1:25 - Restrepo, Katherine P. ('18) |
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Humor and Feminism in the Visual Culture of the 1970s: Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Maude, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and SNL |
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SESSION : ANTHROPOLOGY
Honors Projects |
Diamond 323
Session Sponsor: Catherine Besteman |
| 1:00 pm - 2:55 pm |
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1:00 - Bird, Rachel R. ('18) |
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What the Walls Say: Exploring Value and Meaning in Tel Aviv's Street Art |
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1:40 - Gauvin, Charles F.,, Jr. ('18) |
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Diasporic placemaking: Forging Somali community and identity in Lewiston, Maine |
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2:20 - Lang, Alyssa M. ('18) |
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un-landed
remembering, family stories, and Chinese-American immigrations |
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SESSION : CHEMISTRY
Honors projects |
Diamond 145
Session Sponsor: Kevin Rice |
| 1:00 pm - 2:25 pm |
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1:00 - Smith, Danielle M. ('18) |
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Examining molecular markers of fertility in the male germline of the soapberry bug, Jadera haematoloma |
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1:20 - Wen, Yuewei ('18) |
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Generating Strained Heterocyclicalkynes |
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1:40 - Srour, Noura ('18) |
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Silicon and tin substituted halocyclopropanes: approaches to strained cyclic allenes and new carbenes |
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2:00 - Smith, Erika ('18) |
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Haloferax volcanii for carotenoid production |
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SESSION : CINEMA STUDIES
Cinema Studies Across the Curriculum |
Bixler 154
Session Sponsor: Steve Wurtzler |
| 1:00 pm - 3:55 pm |
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1:00 - Crisp, Thomas ('19) |
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3 Films |
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1:30 - Frederick, Austin E. ('18) |
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Mapping MIFF: 20 Years of the Maine International Film Festival |
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2:00 - O'Donnell, James F. ('18) |
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A Historical Analysis of Colby College Film Consumption Through the Echo Archives |
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2:15 - Peters, Benjamin J. ('19) |
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The Forks |
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2:30 - Pitter, Marissa S. ('19) |
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A Work In-Progress: "A Cultural Tool" |
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2:45 - Shaw, Dylan N. ('19), DeFrancisco, Jenna P. ('19) and Lindberg, James A. ('19) |
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Whiting Farm |
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3:00 - Von Ehr, Julia M. ('19) |
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A Summer with Kesho Wazo |
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3:15 - Yu, Long Yung ('19) |
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A Work In-Progress: "In Search of the Invisible Hands" |
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SESSION : EDUCATION
Honors Projects, Senior Seminars, Independent Study Projects |
Diamond 141
Session Sponsor: Adam Howard |
| 1:00 pm - 3:55 pm |
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1:00 - Martin, Emily M. ('18) |
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Gender and Physical Capital in Elite Schooling Environments |
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1:20 - Carmack, Adrienne ('18) |
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Talking Back: Youth Participatory Action Researchers Discuss Stereotypes and Their Implications at School |
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1:40 - Burgos, Margaret X. ('18), Patodia, Aanavi ('19), Petherbridge, A. Nicole ('20) and Ray-Smith, Bayley E. ('18) |
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Facilitating Student Voice Through Microadventures |
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2:00 - Friedman, Isabel P. ('18), Taylor, Emily L. ('18), Wrean, Katherine C. ('18) and Zolper, Natalie B. ('18) |
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False Hopes: Exploring the Role of Marketing on Colby Students' Expectations and Experiences |
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2:20 - Carmack, Adrienne ('18) |
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The Impact and Radical Queer Possibility of Youth Participatory Action Research with Small-Town Youth |
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2:50 - Furusho, Amy K. ('18), Giles, Margaret E. ('18), Larock, Zoe C. ('18) and Robertson, Samantha F. ('18) |
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Sexuality and Social Belonging: Examining the Differences between Heterosexual and LGBQ+ Students' Experiences with Social Life at Colby College |
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3:10 - Desjardins, Ryanne M. ('18) and Ray-Smith, Bayley E. ('18) |
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Student Leaders Influence on First-year's Transition Into College and Beyond |
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3:30 - Scammell, Christopher K. ('18) |
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eXXXcess? : Findings from a Qualitative Study on Masculinity and Pornography |
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SESSION : ENGLISH AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Global Change Ecology and Environmental Humanities: Stories of Crisis and Resilience |
Diamond 242
Session Sponsor: Chris Walker, Denise Bruesewitz |
| 1:00 pm - 2:25 pm |
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1:00 - Backstrand, Sarah W. ('18) |
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Kudzu: A Reflection on Interconnectedness and Love |
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1:14 - Donchik, Katherine A. ('18) |
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The COtune |
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1:28 - Hurley, Meghan A. ('20) |
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Growth and Decay of Nature, Humans, and Human Nature |
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1:42 - Kullberg, Alyssa T. ('18) |
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Catfish bleed crude |
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1:56 - Plante, Tucker B. ('18) |
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Bees in the Anthropocene |
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2:10 - Theyerl, Benjamin T. ('20) |
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Becoming With the Season; Becoming With Home |
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SESSION : GOVERNMENT
Honors Projects |
Diamond 122
Session Sponsor: Jen Yoder |
| 1:00 pm - 3:25 pm |
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1:00 - Erwin, William N. ('18) |
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Political Decisions, Practical Consequences: An Examination of State Implementation Decisions Under the Affordable Care Act |
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1:25 - Harris, Timothy M. ('18) |
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The Dark Side of Cartography: Evaluating Potential Solutions to Partisan Gerrymandering |
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1:50 - Keenan, Meredith F. ('18) |
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Gendered Approach to Waterville Community Power Structure |
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2:15 - LaValle, Nellie S. ('18) |
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Emerging care regimes: An analysis of the domestic labor market of Shanghai |
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2:40 - Levesque, William M. ('18) |
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Strategic Nationalism: Deciphering Chinese Maritime Strategy in the South China Sea |
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SESSION : INDEPENDENT MAJORS
Capstone Research |
Diamond 344
Session Sponsor: Natalie Zelensky |
| 1:00 pm - 1:55 pm |
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1:00 - Bullock, Adelaide C. ('18) |
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Examining the Socio Political Impact of President Trump's Foreign Policy Agenda in Sub Sarahan Africa |
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1:15 - Chandler, Thomas H. ('18) |
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Subsidized Housing in the Neoliberal Era: HOPE VI Implementation for Chicago's Cabrini-Green Public Housing Project |
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1:30 - Smith, Chandler D. ('18) |
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Education at Colby: a strategic response to the global challenges we will face in 2052 |
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SESSION : MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
Honors Projects |
Davis 301
Session Sponsor: Liam O'Brien |
| 1:00 pm - 3:25 pm |
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1:00 - Huang, Weiyan ('18) |
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Parametric Polynomials for Small Galois Groups |
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1:50 - Yang, Jianing ('18) |
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Algebraic Number Theory and Cyclic Cubic Fields |
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2:40 - Zhang, Muyuan ('18) |
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The spectral radius theorem for matrices |
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SESSION : RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Honors Projects, Independent Study Projects, and Compagna-Sennett Research Fellows |
Diamond 241
Session Sponsor: Nikky Singh |
| 1:00 pm - 3:55 pm |
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1:00 - Gentry, Brooke K. ('18) |
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From Antagonists to Protagonists: Muslims on the Hollywood Screen |
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1:30 - Oakley, Elizabeth R. ('18) |
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The Red Tent: Biblical Women in Contemporary Fiction |
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2:00 - Snyder, Mark W. ('18) |
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Respect or Resist? Contextualizing Evangelical Identity in the Trump Era |
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2:30 - Soucek, Lucy E. ('18) |
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Forging Religious Bonds through the Language of Colors |
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3:00 - Geoghegan, Eleanor M. ('18) |
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Reimagining Sita Through a Feminist Lens |
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3:20 - Labbe, Skylar R. ('18) |
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How MLK Jr. Worked to Reach White Christians |
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3:40 - Trivedi, Shivani B. ('20) |
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Women in the Swaminarayan Temple: Ahmedabad and Houston |
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SESSION : SPANISH
Honors Projects, Research Presentations |
Diamond 153
Session Sponsor: Dean Albritton |
| 1:00 pm - 3:55 pm |
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1:00 - Balla, Jemimah S. ('20) |
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El eterno invierno del exilio cubano en El Super |
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1:20 - Boudreau, Daniel ('18) |
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Gender expression in post-Franco Spain |
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1:40 - Hanson, Eleanor A. ('18) |
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El romanticismo de la narcocultura |
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2:00 - Hochstadt, Olivia G. ('21) |
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La aceptación de la realidad en "La noche boca arriba" |
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2:15 - Lugo Aracena, Vianny C. ('18) |
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Exploración de la identidad de género y sexualidad en La mucama de Omicunlé |
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2:35 - Murray, Clare F. ('18) |
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Reading Between the Lines: El desafío de crear una comunidad en la frontera mexicana |
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2:55 - Plunkett, Molly H. ('18) |
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Marcos: señales representacionales y conductos para labor doméstica en Amador (2010) |
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3:15 - Rhodes, Alexander K. ('20) |
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Heraldry and Religious Symbolism in a Seventeenth-Century Carta Ejecutoria |
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3:35 - Young, Amanda V. ('18) |
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Working with Wikipedia to Increase Access to Information |
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SESSION : GENERAL SESSION
Environment and History |
Diamond 342
Session Sponsor: Kara Kugelmeyer |
| 1:00 pm - 1:55 pm |
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1:25 - Vinh, Madeline ('20) |
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Concrete Footsteps: Exploring Manzanar's History Through Its Land |
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SESSION : WILD CARD
Community-Based Learning: What and How We Learn from Community |
Diamond Ostrove
Session Sponsor: Kurt Nelson |
| 2:00 pm - 2:55 pm |
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2:00 - Martinez, Regina ('20), Vaitkeviciute, Aiste ('18), Barnes, Jeremy B. ('20), Gamedze, Mkhanyisi G. ('19), Charest, Meghan E. ('20), Mateo, Nancy ('19) and Smith-Erb, Hannah ('21) |
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Houston Faith in Action--Alternative Spring Break |
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2:12 - Chesney, Alyssa C. ('20), Ma, Bohan ('20), McFadden, Chasity A. ('20), Munns, Avery C. ('21), Johnson, Hannah L. ('21) and Glassman, Taylor C. ('21) |
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Colby Lives of Purpose |
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2:24 - Fung, Ming Y. ('21) |
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Lewiston Alternative Spring Break |
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2:36 - Ramirez, Anna ('20) and Wessman, William J. ('20) |
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Colby Cares About Kids (CCAK) |
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SESSION : FRENCH
Independent Research Projects |
Diamond 343
Session Sponsor: Adrianna Paliyenko |
| 2:00 pm - 3:55 pm |
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2:00 - Pipernos, Benjamin E. ('18) |
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Portrait du Pied-Norir: Exode et rapatriement |
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2:15 - Shoer, Sarah A. ('18) |
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Sex Work, Scandal, and Syphilis: Representations of Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France. |
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2:30 - David, Jacob ('20) and Powers, Rachel E. ('21) |
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Romanticizing or Romancing Nature? A Comparative Analysis of Selected Works of Théophile Gautier and Alfred Sisley |
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2:45 - Buell, Paige L. ('19) |
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The Discovery of the Ovem: A New Weapon for Feminist Writers in the Nineteenth Century |
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3:00 - Abrams, Douglas ('19) |
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Painting Insanity: From Diagnosis to Degeneration |
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3:15 - Ruiz Chico, Luis Jorge ('20) and Xu, Xiaohui ('18) |
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Against the Grain: Tristan Corbière and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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SESSION : AMERICAN STUDIES
Senior seminar: Space, Culture, and Neoliberalism |
Diamond 123
Session Sponsor: Ben Lisle |
| 2:30 pm - 3:55 pm |
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2:30 - Aplin, Thea ('18) |
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The Revitalization of Grand Central Terminal’s Retail Space: A Neoliberal Project |
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2:35 - Borges, Julia ('18) |
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Combating Neoliberal Structures of Commodification in Contemporary Dance Choreography and Performance |
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2:40 - Chandler, Thomas H. ('18) |
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The State of Public Housing in the Neoliberal Era |
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2:45 - di Galoma, Camilla G. ('18) |
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Individual Gun Ownership: Spreading Neoliberal Ideology through NRA Advertisements |
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2:50 - Friedman, Isabel P. ('18) |
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Thompson's Point and the Rise of Portland's Creative Class |
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2:55 - Gomez, Samuel J. ('18) |
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Casinos and Community |
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3:00 - Holvenstot, Scarlet S. ('18) |
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Etsy vs. H&M: How to fight Neoliberalism and Corporations |
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3:05 - Houston, Marcques A. ('18) |
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Fast Food, Diners, and Urban Development in Neoliberal America |
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3:10 - MacDonald, Cameron J. ('18) |
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Fenway Park: Aesthetics and Capitalism |
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3:15 - Nuckols, Clara R. ('18) |
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Holy Donut and the Creative Class |
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3:20 - Parker, Jordan Marie ('18) |
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Death & Hip Hop: Profiting off Pain in a Neoliberal Society |
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3:25 - Restrepo, Katherine P. ('18) |
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HGTV's Fixer Upper: Selling the American Dream |
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3:30 - Snyder, Mark W. ('18) |
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Neoliberal Impacts on Wrigleyville |
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3:35 - Stanfill, Jina ('18) |
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Man Repelling: Neoliberal Feminism and its Commodification in Fashion |
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3:40 - Sullivan, Slater W. ('18) |
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Hollywood's Critique of the Neoliberal City through Science Fiction |
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SESSION : ECONOMICS
Senior Seminar: Global Production |
Diamond 341
Session Sponsor: Andreas Waldkirch |
| 2:30 pm - 3:55 pm |
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2:30 - Akingba, Omolara A. ('18) |
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The Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on Growth in Africa |
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2:40 - Benicky, Mario ('18) |
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Economic Transition of Post-Communist Countries in Europe and their Assimilation within the European Union |
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2:50 - Dickert, Patrick J. ('18) |
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The Effect of Political Cycles on Foreign Direct Investment into Taiwan |
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3:00 - Gould, Danielle L. ('18) |
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The Effects of the Costs of Doing Business on FDI |
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3:10 - Klitirinos, Philip ('18) |
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The Impact of Greece's Financial Crisis on Inward FDI |
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3:20 - Lin, Vincent ('18) |
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The Changing Nature of FDI in South Korea and Japan |
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3:30 - Papapetros, Isabella P. ('18) |
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U.S. Outward FDI and Host Country Employment |
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3:40 - Seymour, Jacqueline ('18) |
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Pharmaceutical Foreign Investment in India: Evolution and Recent Changes |
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SESSION : GLOBAL STUDIES
Senior Seminar: Insurgent Mobilities Lab |
Diamond 223
Session Sponsor: Maple Razsa |
| 2:30 pm - 3:55 pm |
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2:30 - Bah, Mariama ('18), Bhalla, Amya ('19), Powers, Chloe M. ('19), Hill, Nora M. ('18), Kopp, Miriam E. ('18), Ledue, Catherine L. ('19), McCarthy, Shona B. ('18) and Endicott, Julia C. ('18) |
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Insurgent Migration: Ethnographies of Resistance and Solidarity on the Balkan Route |
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SESSION : SOCIOLOGY
Honors Project, Independent Study Projects, Research Projects |
Diamond 221
Session Sponsor: Neil Gross |
| 2:30 pm - 3:55 pm |
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2:30 - Carter, Samantha M. ('18) |
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Colby Women in Economics: The Influence of Gender on Self-selection of Academic Majors |
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2:45 - Dixon, Nile E. ('20) |
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The Influence of Race and Crime on Police Staffing Across the US |
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3:00 - Guerrero, Marlen ('18) |
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In Search of Higher Ground: How Hurricane Harey Affected Houston's Undocumented Immigrants |
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3:15 - Lee, Jongwon ('19) |
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Migration and Identity among Korean Students |
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3:30 - Wei, Gillian ('18) |
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The Art of Privilege: A Bourdieusian Reading of Manet and Degas |
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SESSION : GENERAL SESSION
Global Histories of Food |
Diamond 342
Session Sponsor: Sarah Duff |
| 2:30 pm - 3:25 pm |
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2:30 - Pattison, Nicholas M. ('18) |
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Jewish Food and Theology |
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2:45 - Patterson, Caleb R. ('20) |
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The Dissemination and Sanitary Effects of Colonial Foods |
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3:00 - Haut, Catherine E. ('18) |
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The History of Kombucha: Medical Miracle, Yucky Yeast, or Trendy Tea? |
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SESSION : BIOLOGY
Development, Genes, and Evolution |
Diamond 145
Session Sponsor: Dave Angelini |
| 3:00 pm - 3:55 pm |
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3:00 - Feeney, Noel J. ('18) |
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Gene editing applications to HIV resistance and treatment |
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3:00 - Hilton, Michael C. ('18) |
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The evolution of malaria resistance |
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3:00 - Moore, Jay A. ('18) |
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Investigating critical genes in the evolution of cavefish morphology |
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3:00 - Smith, Danielle M. ('18) |
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Investigating the protein glycosylation across animals and plants |
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3:00 - Tiemann, Sydney F. ('18) |
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Genetic parallelism across 794 million years? The role of shavenbaby in wildy divergent taxa |
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3:00 - Wardwell, Ben A. ('18) |
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Development and evolution of olfaction in social insects |
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SESSION : CLAS HIGHLIGHTS
CLAS Highlights |
Page Commons
Session Sponsor: Philip Nyhus |
| 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
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Soucek, Lucy E. ('18) |
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Inter-Religious and Inter-Cultural Bonds in the Language of Colors |
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Hill, Nora M. ('18) |
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Drawing Borders: Images and Representation of Migrant Mobility on the Balkan Route |
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Wilson, Caroline M. ('18) |
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Does Dementia Disrupt Cell Fates? |
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Adams, Elizabeth H. ('18) |
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Examining coping and resilience development in emerging adulthood |