2019 President’s Academic Showcase of Undergraduate Research

Tier One

1st Place: Josiah Popp - faculty sponsor Dr. Dr. Caleb Karges

• Constantinople: The Gateway to a New Russian Empire

2nd Place: Noah Kolander - faculty sponsor Dr. Sean Bignami

• Effects of Various Giant Kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) Preservation Treatments on the Growth of Juvenile Red Abalone (Haliotis rufescens)

3rd Place: Kirstie Schierkolk - faculty sponsor Dr. Kerri Tom

• The Reformation Hero of the Faerie Queene

Honorable Mention: Benjamin Lang - faculty sponsor Dr. John Norton

• Violence, Feuding, and the Wergild: Christian and Germanic Metaphysics in Beowulf

Honorable Mention: Jacob Lange - faculty sponsor Dr. Caleb Karges

• British Strategy and Operations in the Mediterranean Theatre in the Second World War (1939-1941)

Tier Two

1st Place: Camden Leptich - faculty sponsor Dr. Bryan Santin

• Universally Offensive: Examining the Continual Controversy Over Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

2nd Place: Kaylee De La Motte - faculty sponsor Dr. Daniel Deen

• Defining Goodness: Philosophical Implications of the Gene Editing Dilemma

3rd Place: Ciaran Aguirre-Stanton - faculty sponsor Dr. Tony Moscati

• Universal Origins: An Analysis of the Anthropic Principle of Physics

Best Poster

Alice Fackler - faculty sponsor Professor Kristen Schmidt

• (In)visible Revisions: Are Students Taking Writing Studio Advice?