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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 -  Hill, Nora M. ('18) |
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Nazi Imagery and Collective Memory in the Posters of the Atelier Populaire |
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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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Bitches Get Stitches: 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 -  Wei, Gillian ('18) |
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The Intersection of Class and Art: Reading Manet's Olympia Through Bourdieu |
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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 development 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 -  Abulhab, Zena and Ali, Fatimah |
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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 -  Das Gupta, Gayatri ('18) |
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After the 2008 Tainted Formula Scandal: Infant Formula Preferences in China |
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9:20 -  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 -  Mo, Douglas L. ('18) |
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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. |
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11:30 -  Decker, Michael W. |
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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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10:15 -  Hawkinson, Vivian F. ('18) |
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Developing generalizable spatial patterns of human-wildlife conflict |
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10:40 -  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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11:05 -  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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The Importance of Place in Anna Segher's "Excursion of the Dead Girls" |
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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 - 11:25 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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11:12 -  Carmack, Adrienne ('18) |
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Baby Mamas: Reproduction in Lesbian Families |
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SESSION : GENERAL SESSION TBD |
Diamond 323 Session Sponsor: TBD |
9:00 am - 10:25 am |
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Pattison, Nicholas M. ('18) |
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Jewish Food and Theology |
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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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DiFrancesco, Peter M. ('20), Heck, Henry F. ('21), Blair, Catherine A. ('21) and McEnroe, Ciaran J. ('21) |
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The Real Affect of Regulation on Atlantic Salmon Population |
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Vaitkeviciute, Aiste ('18) |
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From USSR to the European Union: Transforming Gender Equality in Lithuania. |
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Kim, Harris K. ('20) |
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German Defeat or Soviet Victory? |
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Hanson, Eleanor A. ('18) |
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History Honors Thesis Defense |
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Vinh, Madeline ('20) |
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Concrete Footsteps: Exploring Manzanar's History Through Its Land |
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Choephel, Tenzin C. ('18) |
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Environmental Regulation: Effects on Economic Growth |
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Patterson, Caleb R. ('20) |
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The Dissemination and Sanitary Effects of Colonial Foods |
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Haut, Catherine E. ('18) |
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The History of Kombucha: Medical Miracle, Yucky Yeast, or Trendy Tea? |
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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) |
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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 - 11:55 am |
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10:00 -  Adams, Elizabeth H. ('18) |
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Mechanisms Underlying Increased Resilience and Use of Effective Coping Strategies in College Students |
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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 -  Hirano, Asami ('18) and Horwood, Bridget E. ('19) |
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Migratory routes and creolization in Acadia |
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11:15 -  Kirkwood, Kailey S. ('20) |
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Créolisation et routes migratoires en Guyane |
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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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10:45 -  Byrnes, Annie R. ('19) |
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The Collective Memory of the Italian Partisan Resistance |
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11:00 -  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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11:15 -  Kim, Harris K. ('20) |
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German Defeat or Soviet Victory? |
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11:30 -  White, Margaret S. ('20) |
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Wonder Drug: The Role of Penicillin in World War II |
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SESSION : GENERAL SESSION TBD |
Diamond 323 Session Sponsor: TBD |
10:30 am - 11:55 am |
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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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11:02 -  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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11:18 -  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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11:42 -  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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Remembrance of the Past |
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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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Its Always Sunny in Maine |
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Dewey, Jesse B. ('18) |
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Vacationland |
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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 Student Speech Contest |
Page Commons Session Sponsor: Travis Reynolds |
12:00 pm - 12:55 pm |
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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 -  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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1:11 -  Beaulieu, Charlotte A. ('20) |
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1:19 -  Cheff, Victoria A. ('18) |
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1:27 -  Gallagher, Natasha N. ('20) |
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1:35 -  Monteleone, Katelyn J. ('18) |
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1:43 -  Soucek, Lucy E. ('18) |
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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 - 3:25 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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1:25 -  Gauvin, Charles F.,, Jr. ('18) |
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Diasporic placemaking: Forging Somali community and identity in Lewiston, Maine |
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1:50 -  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 - 2:55 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 -  Smith, Erika ('18) |
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Haloferax volcanii for carotenoid production |
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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 -  Uwase, Grace ('18) |
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Investigating Phosphorylation Patterns and their Effect on the Activity of Transcription Factor TaABF1 in Imbibing Cereal Grains. |
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2:20 -  Wen, Yuewei ('18) |
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Generating Strained Heterocyclicalkynes |
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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 -  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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1:20 -  Carmack, Adrienne ('18) |
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Talking Back: Stereotypes in our School and Community |
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1:40 -  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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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 -  Martin, Emily M. ('18) |
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Gender and Physical Capital in Elite Schooling Environments |
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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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1:20 -  Donchik, Katherine A. ('18) |
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The COtune |
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1:40 -  Hurley, Meghan A. ('20) |
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Growth and Decay of Nature, Humans, and Human Nature |
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2:00 -  Kullberg, Alyssa T. ('18) |
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Catfish bleed crude |
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2:20 -  Plante, Tucker B. ('18) |
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Bees in the Anthropocene |
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2:40 -  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 - 2:55 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 -  Soucek, Lucy E. ('18) |
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Forging Religious Bonds through the Language of Colors |
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2:40 -  Geoghegan, Eleanor M. ('18) |
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Reimagining Sita Through a Feminist Lens |
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3:00 -  Snyder, Mark W. ('18) |
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Respect or Resist? Contextualizing Evangelical Identity in the Trump Era |
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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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1:19 -  Boudreau, Daniel ('18) |
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Gender expression in post-Franco Spain |
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1:38 -  Hanson, Eleanor A. ('18) |
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El romanticismo de la narcocultura |
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1:57 -  Hochstadt, Olivia G. ('21) |
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La aceptación de la realidad en La noche boca arriba |
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2:16 -  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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2:54 -  Plunkett, Molly H. ('18) |
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Marcos: señales representacionales y conductos para labor doméstica en Amador (2010) |
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3:13 -  Rhodes, Alexander K. ('20) |
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Heraldry and Religious Symbolism in a Seventeenth-Century Carta Ejecutoria |
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3:32 -  Young, Amanda V. ('18) |
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Working with Wikipedia to Increase Access to Information |
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SESSION : GENERAL SESSION TBD |
Diamond 342 Session Sponsor: TBD |
1:00 pm - 2:25 pm |
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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) |
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Houston Faith in Action--Alternative Spring Break |
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2:12 -  Chesney, Alyssa C. ('20) |
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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 Study Projects |
Diamond 343 Session Sponsor: Mouhamedoul Niang |
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 -  Hirano, Asami ('18) |
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L’aîné des orphelins – la problématique de la mémoire pendant le génocide rwandais |
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2:45 -  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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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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The Commodification of Neoliberal Feminism 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) |
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The Role of MSF in Meeting Migrants' Health Needs |
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2:40 -  Bhalla, Amya ('19) |
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Migrant Factionalism and War Profits |
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2:50 -  Endicott, Julia C. ('18) and McCarthy, Shona B. ('18) |
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"A Journey of Never Look Back": The Route to Moria |
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3:00 -  Hill, Nora M. ('18) |
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"At least here you are free": A Timeline of the Barracks of Belgrade |
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3:10 -  Kopp, Miriam E. ('18) |
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Noborder Camp 2009: How Sidiqi Became Politically Active |
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3:20 -  Ledue, Catherine L. ('19) |
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[Towards] Decolonizing the Discourse: Gender and Migration |
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3:40 -  Powers, Chloe M. ('19) |
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Queer Mobilites: queer migrant immobility and resistance in Istanbul |
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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 TBD |
Diamond 342 Session Sponsor: TBD |
2:30 pm - 3:55 pm |
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SESSION : WILD CARD Research at Bigelow |
Diamond Ostrove Session Sponsor: Whitney King |
3:00 pm - 3:55 pm |
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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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