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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:
- Coming soon