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

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

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

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.…

The Unseen Diversity in Wheaton Woods

The leaf litter that coats the forest floor is full of biodiversity. After research, we find that Wheaton Woods holds new and uncharacterized filamentous fungi.

Are COVID-19 and H1N1-09 Covered Differently?

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

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

Creating Professional Portfolio Websites

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?

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

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

An Idea About Embryonic Development

Cilia are cellular appendages extending from most of our cells. These complex structures serve both motor and sensory functions. This project explores genetic patterns that…

The Effects of COVID-19 Vaccination Rates on States’ Quarterly GDP

Analyzing the effects states’ COVID-19 vaccination rates may have on their overall economic output, measured by GDP.

Representing Arch Structures in Digital Elevation Models

GIS platforms like Google Earth rely on mass amounts of elevation data to render natural terrain. But what happens when a structure can’t be represented…