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Prevalence of Saccharomyces Yeast in the Wheaton Woods

Academic Festival
Academics
Biology

We collected yeast, a single celled fungus, from the Wheaton Woods to determine the prevalence of saccharomyces species in Massachusetts. The data we collected will…

Global Learning: Exploring Puerto Rico and Climate Change through the Lens of Culture

Academic Festival
Hispanic Studies

This how my four years at Wheaton culminated into a project that ultimately changed the way I think about the world.

The Power of Learning a Foreign Language in the Context of a Liberal Arts Education

Academic Festival
Academics
Hispanic Studies

Landing on a capstone project topic wasn’t an easy task for me. There was no obvious choice. I wanted it to be meaningful while connecting…

Power, Sex, and Gender in the Workplace

Academic Festival
Academics
Career Services
Sociology

The “Power, Sex, and Gender in the Workplace,” panel is a space where students can come and learn about the realities of sexual assault and…

Global Honors: The Power in 3: Celia Cruz, Selena and Rosalía and New York City, Miami and Cleveland

Academic Festival
Academics
Hispanic Studies

My global project applies transculturation, musical crossover, bilingualism, and productive frictions to Celia Cruz, Rosalía, and Selena. My reflection portion of the Global Honors focuses…

Unpacking the Food of Food Assistance

Academic Festival
Sociology

There is a gap in knowledge of how food assistance as an institutionalized system shapes what food even makes it to pantry shelves. Using in-depth…

Guatemala’s Gender Norms Seen Through Film

Academic Festival
Academics
Hispanic Studies
Women's and Gender Studies

For my senior capstone project in Hispanic Studies I looked at the relationship between the film of director Jayro Bustamante and gender norms in Guatemala.…

Are COVID-19 and H1N1-09 Covered Differently?

Academic Festival

In this research we set out to do sentiment analysis on news articles about both Covid-19 and H1N1 to see if the pandemics are covered…

Senior Seminar Capstone: Second Language Acquisition

Academic Festival
Hispanic Studies

My senior seminar capstone explores second language acquisition in conjunction with the methodological and pedagogical aspects of bilingual education.

Creating Professional Portfolio Websites

Academic Festival
Business & Management
Education

In my senior year of college, I created two professional portfolio websites using WordPress, a website building platform. The first website features a digital marketing…

Parabens: A Scare Story?

Academic Festival
Chemistry
English
Environmental Science

This PSA was the final project for Writing in Professional Contexts. It explains the environmental hazards of parabens.

Abundance, Morphometrics, and Diet Diversity of Invasive praying Mantises in Southeastern Massachusetts

Academic Festival
Academics
Biology
Environmental Science

An investigation into the size metrics and diet compositions of two species of invasive praying mantises in the Wheaton area.