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The Dirty Old Man Complex: Finding Charles Bukowski's Place in the Literary Canon by Abbey Flower

The goal of my project was to highlight a relatively unknown poet, Charles Bukowski, and bring him in conversation with the literary canon. While…

Framing in the Media: How Labeling Affects Perception by Alexa Beck and Mollie Carlson

The media is often framed to purposefully influence their consumers’ perception and opinion, and in some cases empathy can be swayed by the frame and…

Subverting the Male Gaze: Empowering Women through Art by Ally Wilber

This essay analyzes the harmful effects of the male gaze in art and advertising throughout history, and highlights contemporary feminist artists who…

The Social Hell of William Blake: the Impact of the Industrial Revolution on Blake's Illustrations of Dante's Inferno by Myat Aung

In 1824 CE, William Blake was commissioned to illustrate the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. Amongst 102 illustrations, Blake devoted two thirds to…

Small Worlds: Display of Inwardness in Pompeiian Houses during the Late Republic and the Early Roman Empire by Myat Aung

Comprehension of the Roman experience is conceived through the exploration of antiquity: close examination of artifacts and ideas that the Romans…

Black Heroes Matter by Juan Baez

The world of comics has many black superheroes who mostly added as a sidekick for the main hero such as Falcon to Captain America, Storm to Cyclops…

Fairy Tales in Picture Books by Kayla Beck

This exhibit explores the history and presentation of fairy tales through the medium of children's picture books. Specifically focusing on the fairy…

Activity budgets and exhibit use of captive grey wolves related to exhibit familiarity by Morgan Beisbier

Wild and captive grey wolves (Canis lupus) not only live in different habitats, but they also have different necessary survival activities. These…

The Evolution of the Republican Party from 1854-Present: What Changed and What Stayed the Same by Benjamin J. Wozniczka

The Republican Party, also known as the Grand Old Party (GOP), has evolved substantially since the party's formation in 1854. Its ideological…

Direct interactions between Escherichia coli transcription proteins Rho and NusA by Taryn Bosquez

Transcription termination is an important regulatory component within the Escherichia coli (E. coli) genome. Two proteins are known to influence…

Determination of Potential 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal Covalent Binding Sites on Electron Transfer Flavoprotein using Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry by Margaret Breen-Lyles

Oxygen radicals and the reactive by-products they create have long been indicated in the disease pathways of metabolic disorders, given that they have…

Redefining Gender Roles: The Defense of All Things Feminine by Shelbi Buettner

This paper uses gender criticism to analyze Jerramy Fine’s book, In Defense of the Princess: How Plastic Tiaras and Fairytale Dreams Can Inspire…

Substituent and Solvent Effects: Examining Acidity via Infrared Spectroscopy by Jordan Buhle

There is a large collection of substituent constant data measured in polar protic and polar aprotic solvents, but a lack of information on substituent…

Evolutionary Origins of Mental Disorders: Overlooked Advantageous Survival Mechanisms by Samuel Cares

The stigma that accompanies mental disorders in the modern age contributes to the widely held belief that they are completely negative. However,…

Androgen metabolite measurement in droppings from adult male Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis) by Colleen Elzinga

This study was undertaken to validate the use of noninvasive techniques for measuring androgen hormone metabolites in the Eastern Bluebird (Sialia…