Winners

Design Considerations

• First Place: Fawzia Bhuiyan
  Rethinking Public Parks : Measuring Park Affordances to Advance Informal Learning by Design
  
  
• Second Place: Patricia  Mensah
  Accessible ≠ Inclusive: Rethinking How We Design For Accessibility And Inclusion In Digital Platforms

Film Studies

• First Place: Payton Conlin
  Grief Immortal: The Role of the Vampire in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners
  
  
• Second Place: Baylie Jett Mills
  “I Saw Everything”: Melancholia, Mourning, and Moving On in Hiroshima, Mon Amour

Financial Concerns

• First Place: Arifa Akter
  Social Media and Household Overspending: Platform Specific and Generational Evidence from the 2021 NFCS Investor Survey
  
  
• Second Place: Ohireime  Ojeomogha
  Who Bounces Back? Racial/Ethnic Differences in Household Financial Resilience

History, Political, & Global Issues

• First Place: Princess Badu
  Economic Contribution of Undocumented Immigrants to State-Level GDP in the US
  
  
• Second Place: Adam Hogan
  Building Nature’s Cathedral?: The National Park Service’s Evolving Relationship with Religious Freedom

Human Behavior, Social Systems, & Issues

• First Place: Oluwafolakemi Ogunkale 
  Racial Disparities in Reproductive Healthcare: Geographic Differences in Accessing Emergency Contraception(EC) at Retail Pharmacies in the United States
  
  
• Second Place: Jalen Meshurle Promesse
  Exploring How Biological Evidence, Notably Latent Prints, Could Trace Ghost Guns to Their Users

Literary Analysis

• First Place: Dinushika Ranasinghe
  The Illusion of Female Autonomy in a Patriarchal World: A Comparative Study of Gervaise in L’Assommoir by Émile Zola and Monique in Combats et métamorphoses d’une femme by Édouard Louis
  
  
• Second Place: Carlos Diaz
  Derrida’s Hauntology in Lone Women: Reconfiguring U.S. Myths Out of the Traces of the Past 

Media & Communications

• First Place: Amadeus Schmidgall
  Shattered Frames: Religious Transnational Framing in News Coverage of 2023 the Israel-Hamas War
  
  
• Second Place: Damilola Adebayo
  Experience Architecture as a Framework for Ethical UX Design

Visual & Performing Arts

• First Place: Seolae Hwang
  Hearing Color: Building a Sound Palette for Orchestration
  
  
• Tie for Second Place:
  Oluwabukunmi Awosusi
  What’s All The Fuss About Blue? Looking Into Three Cultures To Explore How This Color is Working Similarly
  Liz Acosta
  On Edge: Multimodal Expectations for Jump Scares in Horror Films
  

One-Act Play

• First Place: T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  Play Title:The Audition
  
  
• Second Place:
  Victoria  Denike - Playwright
  Play Title: Coping with Oranges
  Tayler Robertson - Director
  Play Title: Coping with Oranges

 

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