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

 

Design Considerations:

• 1^st Place: Ladan Khalvati
  Designing for Inclusion: Improving Learning Experiences for Children with Learning Disabilities
  
  
• 2^nd Place: Emily Krueger
  Co-Presenters: Anna Batalova & Alexandra Marine 
  Ode to Midland: An Outdoor Learning Environment for the Midland Community Theater

Visual & Performing Arts:

• 1^st Place: Troy Scarborough 
  The Necessity for a Possible Dream:  The Creation of the First Master of Fine Arts Terminal Degree Program in Professional Theatre Practice at a Historically Black College or University.
  
  
• 2^nd Place: Kirsten Hoogstraten
  Putting the "Ooo" in Oompah: Teaching Musicality to Low Brass Players

Literary Analysis:

• 1^st Place: Kristina Lewis
  Medieval Human-Making: Human Encountering, Interpreting, and Defining the Nonhuman in Early and Middle English Literature 
  
  
• 2^nd Place: Maeve Kirk
  An Ethical Reordering: Boundary Collapse in Natalie Diaz's Postcolonial Love Poem

History, Political, Global Issues:

• 1^st Place: Rachel Chovan
  Ensuring Usefulness and Accessibility in Legacy Collections: Updating the 1932 Saddleback Ruin Collection
  
  
• 2^nd Place: Oluwaseun Okajare
  Repression, Regime (In)stability and Foreign Direct Investment in Autocratic Developing Countries

Financial Concerns:

• 1^st Place: Yan Lu
  The Predictors of Credit Card Mismanagement

Human Behavior, Social Systems, and Issues:

• 1^st Place: Meghalee Das
  Breaking Barriers in Synchronous Online Instruction: Insights from International Student User Experiences
  
  
• 2^nd Place: Elizabeth Goldberg
  The Philosophical Bermuda Triangle: The Muddled State of Pre-Service Science Teacher Philosophical Stances and Practices

Media & Communication:

• 1^st Place: MD Ashraful Goni
  ChatGPT is Here to Help Me or Replace Me? A Case Study on Bangladeshi Journalists
  
  
• 2^nd Place: Aubree Herman
  ‘It's Like Flipping a Switch': Understanding the Challenges, Expectations, and Identity of High School Wrestlers

One-Act Play:

• 1^st Place: Benjamin Stanford | Director: Benjamin Smith
  Play Title: "The View"
  
  
• 2^nd Place: Tamar Neumann | Director: Rengim Melis Kose | Assistant Director: David Priebe
  Play Title: "A Sacred Exchange"

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