College Honors

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9 - 9:45 A.M. | Isabel Sullivan ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Timothy Joseph) Grammatical Gender in Virgil’s Bucolics Tess Patti ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Mary Ebbott) Discovered a Woman: Experiences of Lament in Greek Tragedy Caroline Boardman ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Katherine Lu Hsu) The Gorgon and the Goddesses: Constructing Sacred Identity through Apotropaic Imagery 9:50 - 10:35 A.M. | Beck Schutte ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Lyz Renshaw) Challenges for Legally Blind Long-Distance Runners Claudia Ericson ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Carmen Jarrin) Fiction, Fieldnotes, and Filipina Beauty: An Analysis of Aesthetics Through a Narrative, Ethnographic, and Nostalgic Lens Tyler Hall ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Michael Creane) Conscientiousness and Collegiate Athletes: An Item Response Theory Analysis 10:40 - 11:25 A.M. | Leo Bubb ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Patrick Whitmarsh) Abigail Clark ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Elliott Visconsi) Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Black Experience of Jim Crow in Nonfiction and Fiction Anna Howie ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Fr. John Gavin, S.J.) Shoreless, Indefinite as God: Apocalypse, Eschatology, and America in Herman Melville\u27s Moby-Dick 11:30 A.M. - 12:05 P.M. | Kara Battaglia ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Jula Paxson) Regulation of Quiescence and Proliferative Capacity in Canine Lung Mesenchymal Stromal Cells by Extracellular Matrix Stiffness John Zimmerman ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Dan Tortorice) The Honduran Bono 10,000 Program: A Triple Difference Review --- 12:05 - 12:45 P.M. | Break --- 12:45 - 1:30 P.M. | Eileen Ledesma ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Maria Rodrigues) Identity and Intervention: Constructivism and U.S. Foreign Policy toward the Dominican Republic Audrey McConnell ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Carmen Jarrin) La Mob in Motion: An Ethnography of Contemporary Leftist Organizing in Massachusetts Harry Courts ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Özge Savaş) Strategic Silence: The Greek Left\u27s Avoidance of the 1922 Smyrna Catastrophe During the Refugee Crisis, 2015-2019 1:35 - 2:20 P.M. | Isabelle van der Spuy ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Todd Lewis) The Force of Multivariate Thinking Julianna Stratton ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Chris Arrell) Consonance, Dissonance, and the Brain: Directions in Modern Concert Music Samuel Reed ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Dominic Machado) The Postcolonial Lens in New England Museums 2:25 - 3:10 P.M. | Jaden Kirkwood ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Victor Matheson) Economic Impact of the Las Vegas Formula 1 Grand Prix Danielle Soriano ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Donna Demanarig) A Study of Anti-Colonial Parenting Styles and Asian American Mental Health Ana Lucia Fernåndez del Castillo ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Fr. Peter Nguyen, S.J.) Educational Formation in a Fragmented Ag