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Creative/Reflective Category
First Place: Emily Engelbart, writing for John Schwartz’s class, “Reporting on the Environment”
Gulf Coasters Work to Restore the Bay’s Kidneys
Second Place: Alexis Reyes, writing for Abigail Burns’s class, “Rhetoric of Allyship”
Reimagining Allyship: A Love Letter
Third Place: Catherine Cahn, writing for Peter Lasalle’s class, “Advanced Fiction Workshop”
Where Do All the Jews Go?
Honorable Mention: avery scogins, writing for Krzysztof Piekarski’s class, “Rhetoric of the Essay”
that which remains
Honorable Mention: Ashley Rummel, writing for Deborah Unferth’s class, “Short Story Workshop”
The Artists
Honorable Mention: Leigha Forrest, writing for Matt Valentine’s class, “Writing Narratives”
My Battlefield Skin
Critical/Persuasive Category
First Place: Norah De Zwart, writing for José G. Izaguirre III’s class, “Principles of Rhetoric”
Remembering Barbara Jordan: A Missed Opportunity
Second Place: Cherry Chu, writing for Shetal Vohra’s class, “Students, Policy, and Action”
Title 25 Policy Review: Windowless Housing in West Campus
Third Place: Teresa Brod, writing for Medhi Haghshenass class, “What We See, What We Believe”
Colorism as a Result of Colonization and Global Ramifications
Honorable Mention: Anna Grace Holloway, writing for Daniel Bonevac’s class, “Ethical Theories”
Reality Check: On Bentham’s Preclusion of Reality’s Effect on the Value of Experience
Honorable Mention: Samantha Spencer, writing for Enzo Vasquez Toral’s class, “Performance as Public Practice”
Big Top Risk for Reward: An Argument of Transdisciplinary Injury Prevention for Circus Performers
Honorable Mention: Laura Li, writing for Taylor Johnson Karahan’s class, “Unburied: Ancestral Remains”
Museum of Intolerance: Domestic Unburial and American Influences in the Desecration of Mamilla Cemetery
Research – Humanities Category
First Place: Nina Datz, writing for Bruce Hunt’s class, “Capstone in History”
Galileo’s Brush with Artistry: The Intersection of Art and Science in Seicento Italy
Second Place: Brian Earle, writing for Todd Curtis’s class, “Great Works in Medicine”
Joseph Lister’s Approach to Popularizing Antisepsis and Its Applications to Modern Surgical Advancement
Third Place: Princess Ojo, writing for Robert L. Reece’s class, “Race, Science and Race Science”
Shading Schizophrenia: An Analysis of Schizophrenia Overrepresentation Among Black People in America
Honorable Mention: Makayla Baughman, writing for Teri Fickling’s class, “Women, Gender, Literature, and Culture”
A Gothic Portrayal of Mothering in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Honorable Mention: Yves Santoy, writing for Astrid Runggaldier’s class, “Architecture and Sculpture in the Maya World”
Maya Portals: Mirrors, Divination, and The Underworld in Maya Visual and Material Culture
Research – Lab Category
First Place: Payton Antonacci, writing for Katie Bruner’s class, “Laboratory Experience in Genetics”
Unraveling the Genetic Tapestry of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder: Insights into Immune-Mediated Mechanisms
Second Place: Caroline Whitmarsh, writing for David Gilden’s class, “Experimental Psychology”
Examining Working Memory and Forgetfulness Through Serial Position Curves
Third Place: Sabrina Reyes, writing for Katie Bruner’s class, “Laboratory Experience in Genetics”
Current Analysis of Color Separation of Chiral Enantiomers via Pyrogallol Red Indicator and UV-Vis Spectrophotometry and Future Applications for Chiral Identification
Honorable Mention: Isabel Herrera, writing for Louis Waldman’s class, “Art and Social Justice”
The Paradox of the Mexican-American Border: Being Stuck in the Middle of a Unity Where Coexistence Refuses to Exist
Honorable Mention: Jazhiel Segura-Monroy, Ayan Gupta, and Yash Totlani, writing for Shyamal Mitra’s class, “Geometry of Space – Freshman Research Initiative”
Classifying Emission-Line Galaxies using a Dense Neural Network & Support Vector Machine
Honorable Mention: Lanchi Pham, writing for Katie Bruner’s class, “Laboratory Experience in Genetics”
LDLR, APOB, and PCSK9 Increasing The Risk of Hypercholesterolemia Among Asian Populations