2022 President’s Academic Showcase of Undergraduate Research

Tier One

1st Place: Sean Nowlan - faculty sponsor: Dr. Caleb Karges

• Boston as a Fiscal-Military Hub: Debt, Death, and Deals

2nd Place: Parker Hicks - faculty sponsor: Dr. Sarah Karam

• HiCARN: Resolution Enhancement of Hi-C Data Using Cascading Residual Networks

3rd Place: Emily Castro, Alyssa Kawata, & Britney Lam - faculty sponsor: Dr. Nathan Meier

• Family History and Personal History Influence Health Literacy of Chronic Disease

Honorable Mention: Tyler Heggenes - faculty sponsor: Dr. John Kenney

• Spectroscopy and Symmetry Analysis of Dichloro (Mesitylene) Ruthenium(II) as a Practical Catalyst

Honorable Mention: Timothy Stueve - faculty sponsor: Dr. Brian Santin

• Is Existentialism Dead? How Ingmar Bergman Kept Existentialism Alive For the Second Half of the 20th Century

Best Poster

Audrey Plechas - faculty sponsor: Dr. Melinda Schulteis

• How to Pop It? A Mathematical Investigation of the Latest Game Fad

Tier Two

1st Place: Oliver Di Martino - faculty sponsor: Dr. Brian Ballard

• Abortion Axiology: Why it is better if fetuses (and Africans, and Jews) are persons

2nd Place: Andrew Shiroma - faculty sponsor: Prof. Joshua Tallman

• Battleship Bots: Examination of Two-Dimensional Search Algorithms

3rd Place: Adebayo Akinwale, Kailee Dickerson, Andy Kapoor, & Khoi Vu - faculty sponsor: Dr. Lindsay Kane-Barnese

• Investigation into The Copper Chaperone Dependent Activation of The Protein Superoxide Dismutase

Best Poster

Madison Zuniga - faculty sponsor: Dr. Scott Stiegemeyer

• An Exploration of Iconography in the Early Church: Depictions of Christ in Classical and Late Antiquity Art