Undergraduate Research Week is next week!
Please let your students and coworkers know about this exciting event that they can attend:
ORAL PRESENTATION SYMPOSIUM
Wednesday, April 18, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
And
Thursday, April 19, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Gebauer (GEB) 3.312
Please drop in any time throughout the day to view ongoing short presentations given by Liberal Arts Undergraduate Researchers. Below is the schedule for the department clusters and presenter’s name:
Wednesday, April 18
Psychology, 10 – 10:45 a.m.
Courtney Lewis
Love/Hate
Keela Thomson
The Effects of Decision-Making Strategies on Financial Choices
Economics, 10:45 – 11:30 a.m.
Shuoyu Li
How Important Exchange Rate is in International Bonds Investing
Hamid Poorsafar
Transit Economics: A Caspian Approach
English, 11:30 – 1 p.m.
Chris Graves
“For a Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing”: A Comparative Reading of Karl Marx’s and Paul K. Feyerabend’s Methodology
Zachary Garber
History and Nation-Building in the Novels of Sir Walter Scott
Laurel Richards
Dysfunctional Families and Reconstructive Dynamics in Diana Wynne Jones’ Chrestomanci Novels
Travis Alexander
Politics, Literary Ambitions, and Counterculture Critiques of H.S. Thompson
Christopher Barton
Expanding Original Practices
Government, 1 – 3 p.m.
Andres Eaton
The Cost of Apathy: Obama and the Black Vote
Joshua Tang
Mexican American Clemency from 1923-1972
Ainee Athar
The Politics of Dream Activism
Julieta Cuellar
In the Wake of the “October Revolution”: Otpor! Post-October 5, 2000
Joshua Fjelstul
Accession Conditionality in the European Union
American Studies, 3 – 4 p.m.
Natalie San Luis
Represent the Realness: Black Authenticity and Contemporary Rap
Lauren White
Don’t Blame the Grease, Blame the TV: Soul Food and the Media
Jillian Owens
A Wide Net of Hope: Understanding the Success of the Lakewood Church
Thursday, April 19
Classics, 11 a.m. – noon
Tu-Uyen Nguyen
Human and Virgin Sacrifice in Ancient Greece and Rome
Blagoje Djordjevic
Perceptions of Science in Late Byzantine Theology
Elizabeth Morgan de Marigny
Occupational Imagery in the Age of Augustus
Linguistics, 1 – 2 p.m.
Delwin Campbell
The Future of Folklore: Internet Memes
Victoria Heckenlaible
Arabic-English Code-Switching: Negotiating Social Networks in Jordan
Nancy Yuan
The Einsteinian Religion
Anthropology/Urban Studies, 2 – 3 p.m.
Jonathan Carrillo
Cost Benefit Analysis of Adding Real-Time Global Positioning System
Jandy Gu
Color Me Weird: Street Art in Austin
Jenna Stewart
Research on Celtic Symbolism in Europe
Cultural Studies, 3 – 4 p.m.
Lynn Romero
The Silencing of Mexico’s Journalists
Courtney Lee
El Grano de Oro: A Recent History of Bolivian Identity and Quinoa
Jose Luis Rodriguez Aquino
Order and Progress: Brazilian Leadership in South America
Our researchers have worked very hard on their presentations, so let’s support them and take a minute out of our day to learn about what they’ve been doing!
Thanks for your help!