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Winners of the 14th Annual Arts & Humanities Graduate Student Research Conference

Arts & Humanities 14th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference

 

Design Considerations

  • 1st Place: Ladan Khalvati
    Sustainable Hotel Design: Integrating Biomimicry and Voronoi Patterns with Solar Energy Generation
  • (Tie) 2nd Place:
    • Fatemeh Dianat
      Designing for Health: Transforming Shiraz Dormitory into a Healthy Living Space
    • Daphne Chilaka
      Qavah: A Design Approach to Enhancing Health and Productivity in the Corporate Workforce

 

Film Studies

  • 1st Place: Baylie Jett Mills
    Learning to Let Go: An Uncanny Analysis of Love and Separation in Five Feet Apart and Portrait of a Lady on Fire

 

Financial Concerns

  • 1st Place: Morgen Nations
    Likes, Shares, and Financial Fears: Exploring the Link Between Social Media Use and Financial Anxiety

 

History, Political, & Global Issues

  • 1st Place: Hoan La
    Women in Parliaments and the Termination of International Sanctions
  • 2nd Place: Tristin Swisher
    Post-Irony, Memetic Propaganda and Alt-Right Appropriation of Turbofolk: Orientalism and the Militarization of Balkan Identity in Digital Spaces

 

Human Behavior, Social Systems, & Issues

  • 1st Place: Elizabeth Goldberg
    The Right Answer for the Wrong Reason: Preservice STEM Teachers Preferences and Explanations of Inquiry-Based Teaching
  • 2nd Place: Abigail Kiesling
    Book and Content Ban Effects on Texas Educators

 

Literary Analysis

  • 1st Place: Emma Aylor
    Glass Basket: Art-Writing, Notional Ekphrasis, and the Expression of Chronic Pain
  • 2nd Place: Michael Troncale
    “In the Afterlife of the Apocalypse”: Queer Literature’s Resistance to the End Times

 

Media & Communications

  • 1st Place: MD Ashraful Goni
    Bangla AI: Introduction to an AI-based Solution for Bridging the Gap between Ethnic and Host Communities
  • 2nd Place: Koherin Farhanaz
    News Framing in The Daily Star: A Content Analysis on General Elections of Bangladesh Under 
    Caretaker Government and Party Government.

 

Visual & Performing Arts

  • 1st Place: Seolae Hwang
    Reorchestration of Brahms’ Symphony No. 1, 1st movement
  • 2nd Place: Morgan Myers
    Assessing a Seated Pair from West Mexico

 

One-Act Play

  • 1st Place: T'Keyah Crystal Keymah (Playwright & Director)
    Play Title: "Throughline" 
  • 2nd Place: Victoria Denike (Playwright) | Rengim Melis Kosa (Director)
    Play Title: "Seeing Red"

 

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