15th Annual President’s Academic Showcase of Undergraduate Research
Tier One:
1st place: Adam Dougherty - faculty member Dr. Tom Mueller
- Down the Rabbit Hole: Determining Alternative Harmonic Cadences in Bill Evans’ Alice in Wonderland Using Negative Harmony
2nd place: Daniel Welchons – faculty mentor Dr. Melinda Schulteis
- Easier Said than Done: The Collatz Conjecture
3rd place: Emily Wood – faculty mentor Dr. Herbert Geisler
- Debussy and Mélodie: Analyzing the Literary-Musical Dialogue in Selected Songs of Claude Debussy
Honorable Mention: Derek Deming – faculty mentors Dr. John Kenney and Dr. Inga Kenney
- Synthesis and Spectroscopic Characterization of Chromium Acetylacetonato Complexes
Honorable Mention: Manoah Marton & Caleb Speakman – faculty mentor Dr. Adam Francisco
- “From Denmark to Hungary: Exploring the Importance of Oral History through Personal Narratives”
Tier Two:
1st Place: Denise Sprimont & David Vasquez - faculty mentor Dr. Russell Dawn
- The Han Dynasty: A Democratic China
2nd Place: Josiah Popp - faculty mentor Dr. Caleb Karges
- Clearing Clouds in War and Weaponry: A Disciplined Approach to Deploying Land-Based Phalanx Weapons Systems to South Korea
3rd Place: Savannah Neu - faculty mentor Dr. Sean Bignami
- Evaluation of Tagging and Tracking Methods of Pismo Clams (Tivela Stultorum) in Southern California
Best Posters:
Benjamin Lange - faculty mentor Dr. Jack Schultz
- Dynamic Race Perceptions: The Invalidity and Unreliability of Census Racial Categories
Abigail Large - faculty mentor Dr. Bret Taylor
- Mathematics Anxiety and Inquiry-based Learning in Core Math Classrooms
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