Senior 2020 Capstone Presentations

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Economics

April 20-21, 2021 - 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.

Capstone Course Title: Honors Research Seminar - ECON 420

Capstone Instructor: Linus Nyiwul

Students Presenting:

  • Will Durham
  • Logan Grubb
  • Abby Hauer
  • Chris Jack
  • Mike McHenry
  • Pranaya Rana

Art & Art History

April 26 & 28, 2021 - 3 to 5 p.m.

Capstone Course Title: Art History Senior Capstone

Capstone Instructor: Nicholas Miller

Students Presenting:

April 26 - 3 to 5 p.m. https://gettysburg.zoom.us/j/96988972112

  • Emily Lashendock - "Crossing the Spiritual Divide: Christianity’s Encroachment on Viking Paganism as Shown through the Iconography of 10th Century Standing Stone Monuments"
  • Sidney Caccioppoli - "Cultural Intersections through Architecture in The Great Mosque of Cordoba"
  • Shannon Zeltmann - "Emphasizing Domesticity: Lacemaking in Dutch Baroque Genre Paintings"
  • Diane Brennan - "Representations of the “Nobel Savage”: Charles Bird King’s Portraiture"

April 28 - 3 to 5 p.m. https://gettysburg.zoom.us/j/91363338824

  • Emily Roush - "Contextualizing William Clutz: Placing His Iteration of Figurative Painting within American Art History"
  • Carolyn Hauk - "Bleeding Out: Representations of Black and Black Women in Faith Ringgold’s American People Series"
  • Alyssa Beronilla - "Colonialist Narratives Through the Meta-Works of Elizabeth Colomba"
  • Georgia Benz - "Utilitarian Art: Purposeful Installations Rooted in Activism and Redefining Institutions"

Mathematics

April 29, 2021 - 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Capstone Instructor: Béla Bajnok

Zoom link: https://gettysburg.zoom.us/j/96454507979

Capstone Course Title: Intermediate Research in Mathematics

Student Presenting:

  • Ben Nagle - "Getting the set with no zero"

Capstone Course Title: Advanced Research in Mathematics

Student Presenting:

  • Hoang Anh Just - “On the pursuit of non-existence of perfect basis”

May 6, 2021 - 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Capstone Instructor: Keir Lockridge

Zoom link: https://gettysburg.zoom.us/j/96454507979

Capstone Course Title: Geometry

Students Presenting: 

  • Kayl Murdough - "Using topology to classify musical melodies"
  • Emily Kilcullen - “Classifying Knots Using Gauss Codes”

Capstone Course Title: Independent Study in Fractal Geometry

Student Presenting: 

  • Peter Francis - "The Beautiful Mathematics of IFS Fractals"

Psychology

May 3, 2021 - 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Capstone Course Title: Honors Research Presentation

Capstone Instructor: Psychology Department

Zoom link: TBA

Students Presenting:

  • Gabrielle Dunning- "Distance Perceptions of Names Versus Pictures of Objects"
  • May Lonergan- "Trait Mindfulness and the Halo Effect"
  • Madeline Kiefer- "Empathy and Political Affiliation as Predictors of Care in Multiple Contexts"
  • Galen Tarranova- "Polarizing Statements, Social Media, and Perceptions of Police Use of Force"
  • Sara Zampino- "Factors Contributing to the Attractiveness of Dating Profiles"

German Studies

May 4, 2021 - 4:15 to 5:30 p.m.

Capstone Course Title: Utopia: How to Make a Better World

Capstone Instructor: Tres Lambert

Students Presenting:

  • Ronnie Chico
  • Sophie Gelling
  • Mel Karcher
  • Emma Schilling

Religious Studies

May 5, 2021 - 1:10 to 3:40 p.m.

Capstone Course Title: Religious Studies Capstone Experience - REL 400

Capstone Instructor: David Walsh

Zoom link: http://zoom.us/my/prof.walsh

Students Presenting:

  • Mary Kate Danberg
  • Malachi Dixon-Powell
  • Sydney Dranow
  • Jane Fitzpatrick
  • Roshani Nagarajah
  • Becca Schmidt
  • Drew Warren

Environmental Studies

May 6, 2021 - 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Capstone Course Title: Senior Honors Theses- ES 460

Capstone Instructors: Natasha Gownaris, Salma Monani, Andy Wilson, Randall Wilson

Students Presenting:

  • Kylie Mandeville - "Place Me in Gettysburg: Relating Sexuality to Environment"
  • Megan Keene - "Ecosystem Service Trade-offs within Coral Reefs: A Global Analysis"
  • Jack Lueddeke - "Challenges and Opportunities for Bison Conservation: National Parks and Tribal Lands in the Yellowstone Region"
  • Lauren Sherman - “Estimating depth and range for species of beaked whales found in the Marianas Archipelago region”

Biology

May 7, 2021 - 3 to 5 p.m.

Capstone Course Title: Biology 460/461 Presentations

Capstone Instructor: Biology Faculty

Zoom link: https://gettysburg.zoom.us/j/91260182122?pwd=VlcwT1lZVDAzeWtoTGNOb0w4VzAydz09
Meeting ID: 912 6018 2122
Passcode: 534544

Students Presenting:

  • Samantha Roth (3:00) - "Sharing Genes due to Family or Neighborhood Membership: An Exploration through Bacteriophages of the Phyllosphere"
  • Diamanti Batistas (3:15) -  "Dip-B knockout in Drosophila melanogaster cell line S2R+-MT::Cas9 using CRISPR Cas9"
  • Rouwaida Nitiema (3:30) - "Mutations in two genes relieve defects in a novel fungal microtubule-stabilizing protein"
  • Meredith Brown (4:00) - "Does upregulation of beta-tubulin rescue defects in a novel fungal regulator of microtubule stability?"
  • Aidan Phillips (4:15) - "Eavesdropping Bat Preferences for Novelty in Túngara Frog Mating Calls"
  • Caoilainn McKenna (4:30) - "NAD+ and adenosine’s roles in the treatment of multiple myeloma with daratumumab" 

Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

May 7, 2021 - 4 to 6 p.m.

Capstone Course Title: Senior Seminar - WGS 400

Capstone Instructor: Gina Velasco

Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/WGScapstone2021

Students Presenting:

  • Paris Beddingfield
  • Kimberly Delgado
  • Kate Estell
  • Isabelle Fiore
  • Emily Hoffman
  • Mariam Martinez

Sociology

May 12, 2021

Capstone Course Title: Sociology Seminar - SOC 400

Capstone Instructor: Cassie Hays

Zoom ID: 578 397 2513

Password: wtf_covid

Students Presenting:

Rhetoric & Representation- 10:00am – 11:00am

  • Sydney Fischer - "Childhood Obesity & McDonald’s Advertisements"
  • Lisa Suriel - "Gender Performance in Children’s Fantasy Films"
  • Matt Burns - "Race & Gentrification in Zillow Advertisements"
  • Diana Farina - "Representations of Difference in Brokerage Firm Websites"
  • Timmy Wilson - "Racial Rhetoric in US Presidential Inaugural Speeches"

Social Movements- 11:00am – 12:00pm

  • Tamiyah Miller - "Schools, Twitter & Black Lives Matter"
  • Holly White - "Media Portrayals of the George Floyd Protests"
  • Mark Bethea - "1963 vs 2020: A comparison of protest art"
  • Grace Kellogg - "Diversity in Academy Award-winning films"
  • Jack Curry - "The Effect of #metoo on Gender in Video Games"

Gender & Discourse- 12:00pm – 1:00pm

  • Saige Alpeter - "Representation of Young Women in Disney TV"
  • Gaby Santiago - "Gender Identity & YouTube apology videos"
  • Gab Campanella - "Title IX, Title VI & Inequality in the Workplace"
  • Shaye Barnes - "Media Bias and Women’s Olympic Soccer"
  • John Thorme - "Representation of Gender in College Basketball"

Media & The Written Word- 1:00pm – 2:00pm

  • Andrew Horn - "The Politics of the NFL’s post-Covid ‘Return to Play’’
  • Devyn Heinzerling - "Political Rhetoric and Mask Mandates"
  • Jack Amaral - "Media Portrayals of Vaccine Hesitancy"
  • Megan Kratz - "Gender & Mental Health during the Pandemic"
  • Alex Bagnato - "Psychological Literature & the Framing of Mental Health"

Music Education

May 12, 2021 - 4 to 5 p.m.

Music Education Senior Portfolios

Capstone Instructor: Brent Talbot

Students Presenting:

  • Bridget Haines
  • Patrick Peters
  • Abel Rose

Political Science

Date & Time TBA

Jacober Honors Theses

Instructor(s): TBA

Students Presenting:

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