Winners Announced! Mathias Student Research Conference
This year, the 32nd annual American University Mathias Student Research Conference came back to campus as an in-person event, as College of Arts and Sciences undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students presented their original scholarly and creative works.
The research conference is funded in part by a generous grant from the late Robyn Rafferty Mathias, AU trustee and alumna.
“The Mathias conference is where our students showcase their original research and scholarly and creative work before colleagues, faculty, and friends,” says College of Arts and Sciences Interim Dean Max Paul Friedman. “The late AU trustee and alumna Robyn Rafferty Mathias was committed to giving young people the tools and resources to become educated, contributing, and compassionate citizens. We are pleased that her legacy continues through this memorable annual event. Congratulations to the winners!”
Awards List
Undergraduate Humanities Workshop
Ames Jewart
Senior, Literature: Transcultural Studies
I Have to Tell My Story Properly: Narrative and Comedic Form in Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette
Advisors: Lindsey Green-Simms and Jeffrey Middents
Graduate Humanities Workshop
Hannah Nanette Karkari
MA Candidate, Art History
A Charming Fabrication: Gender Ambivalence and Shojo Aesthetics in the Portraits of Ashihara Kuniko
Advisor: Ying-chen Peng
Undergraduate Social Sciences Workshop
Nitya Aggarwal, Liana Garcia, Hannah Nisonson, and Kayah Ryerson
Nitya: Junior, International Studies and Environmental Science
Hannah: MS Candidate, Environmental Science
Liana: Junior, International Relations and Environmental Science
Kayah: Sophomore, Political Science and Environmental Science
Transforming our Food System Starts With Understanding Wasted Food: Compilation and Interpretation of Existing Wasted Food Data Sources
Advisor: Sauleh Siddiqui
Graduate Social Sciences Workshop
Lindsey Sparrock
Doctoral Candidate, Behavior, Cognition, and Neuroscience
Development of a Decisional Balance Scale for Young Adult E-Cigarette Use
Advisor: Laura Juliano
Undergraduate Natural Sciences Workshop
Kruttika Gopal
Senior, Environmental Studies and Political Science
Disparities in Particulate Matter Monitoring and Pollution Across Washington, DC.
Advisor: Valentina Aquila
Graduate Natural Sciences Workshop
Marissa Marko
Doctoral Candidate, Behavior, Cognition and Neuroscience
Cerebellar modulation of reading accuracy and speed
Advisor: Catherine Stoodley
Undergraduate Physical Sciences Workshop
Caleb Dando-Haenisch
Sophomore, Physics
Unsupervised Machine Learning Method to Identify Solar Coronal Holes on Satellite Images
Advisors: Silvina Guidoni and Jessica Uscinski
Graduate Physical Sciences Workshop
David Dunleavy
MS Candidate, Computer Science
MCTSLib: Reproducible Real-time Statistical Decision Making
Advisor: Mark Nelson
Tate Altman
MS Candidate, Mathematics of Information and Security
Shannon Sampling via Poisson, Cauchy, Jacobi and Levin
Advisor: Stephen Casey
Undergraduate Humanities Final Work
Rebekah Potter
Senior, Communication, Legal Institutions, Economics, and Government (CLEG) and Art History
The Power in the Madonna’s Breasts and Milk: Leonardo da Vinci’s Litta Madonna Through a Proto-Feminist Lens
Advisor: Kim Butler
Graduate Humanities Final Work
Brookes Pennell
MA Candidate, Arts Management
The Palestinian Musician: How an artist makes a living in the West Bank
Advisor: Ximena Varela
Undergraduate Social Sciences Final Work
Sophie C. Hathaway
Senior, Public Health and Health Promotion
Substance Use, Depression, and Health Quality of Life Disparities among Rural and Urban Sexual Minority Adults: A National Probability Sample
Advisor: Ethan Mereish
Graduate Social Sciences Final Work
Eric Turnquist
MA Candidate, Psychology
Episodic future thinking as an intervention for dependent e-cigarette users
Advisor: Laura Juliano
Undergraduate Physical Sciences Final Work
Ashley Bastin
Senior, Biology
Investigating the Interactions Between TPL and AP1 in Arabidopsis thaliana Stem Cell Function
Advisor: Naden Krogan
Graduate Physical Sciences Final Work
Elisa Davey
MS Candidate, Environmental Science
Microplastics and PAHs in Sediment Samples of Nash Run, Urban Tributary to the Anacostia River
Advisor: Barbara Balestra