Festival of Excellence Distinguished student projects Tuesday, April 3, 2018
C R E AT IVE E X P R E S S I O N AN D ANALYS I S
TH U N D ERG ROU N D: TU R N I N G A C R A Z Y I D E A I NTO A R E ALIT Y BIL LY C LOUSE OR A L PRE SEN TAT ION ED 102, 9 A .M. After resigning from the position of Editor-in-Chief of the University Journal, the current EIC of Thunderground toyed with the idea of starting his own media organization. Through months of planning and a lot of caffeine, he was able to do what he thought was impossible, which included writing 75 articles and designing 162 magazine pages in one semester. ATL A S PA RKER HE S S PERF ORM A NC E THORLEY MUSIC CENTER, 9 A.M. I was interested in creating a work that allowed me to play with the tool of time and duration. I had a great deal of exploration in establishing movement that was slow while inputting quick phrases. As I traveled down this path, I began to think about the continuous flow of time and the realistic observation of people... As everything consistently changes we, as people, may only move forward. The completion of this work echoes these thoughts how we perceived time to last and become faster and faster with moments passing us by until the end.
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C L A S S I F YI N G S C H U R R I N G S OVER TH E I NTEG ER S NIC HOL A S B A S T I A N OR A L PRE SEN TAT ION ED 102, 10 A .M. ...Past research has provided a classification of Schur rings over finite cyclic groups. We will provide an extension of this classification to Schur rings over infinite cyclic groups. C O M M U N IT Y E N GAG E M E N T
A S S ES S I N G TH E QU EER C O M M U N IT Y N EED S FO R S OUTH ER N UTAH U N IVER S IT Y SE T H YORK P OS T ER PRE SEN TAT ION L IB RE A DING RO OM, 9 A .M. The assessment on the LGBTQIA+ community asked questions about the resource needs, infrastructure and community support at SUU. WHY S H OU LD AM ER I C A C AR E AB OUT TH E EFFEC T S O F C LI MATE C HAN G E O N TH E MAR S HALL I S L AN D S? DA MON SWA IN OR A L PRE SEN TAT ION BU 101, 3 P.M. ... Since World War II, the U.S. has had a presence in the Marshall Islands, from orchestrating 67 nuclear tests during the Cold War to the ever-presence of the army base on Kwajalein Atoll... These people will most likely be among the first climate refugees.
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C O N S ERVATI O N G EN E TI C S O F B L AC K B E AR S I N S OUTHWESTER N N EW HAM PS H I R E K A E T LY N RE V EL S P OS T ER PRE SEN TAT ION L IB RE A DING RO OM, 9 A .M. ...The main objectives of our study are to estimate the rate of multiple paternity in black bear litters in southwestern New Hampshire, estimate the relatedness of the male population in the study area, describe the population genetic structure of the black bear population in the study area and provide evidence for twinning in the black bear... S U S PI C I OU S PAT TER N I N G: AESTH E TI C I M PLI C ATI O N S I N MARGAR E T C AVEN D I S H’S NATU R E T E S S A BRUNNENME Y ER OR A L PRE SEN TAT ION ED 215, 10 A .M. The Early Modern Period of Philosophy, though in the thick of the classical Baroque period, is severely lacking in popular aesthetic theory... I think that we can employ the account of nature and causation of Margaret Cavendish in her Observations on Experimental Philosophy to piece together an account of aesthetics in the Early Modern Period...
