2025 President’s Academic Showcase of Undergraduate Research

Tier One

1st Place: Britton Cheney

• The effect of a six-month ballroom dance intervention on physical function and quality of life in individuals with Parkinson's disease

2nd Place: Greta Jones

• Wrapped in Beads, Dancing for God; An Ethnographic Account of Maasai Widow's Conversion to Christianity

3rd Place: Eliana Harris

• Letters from America: A British Perspective on Anglo-American Relations During the Civil War

Honorable Mention: Amberley Bailey & Makenna Messing

• The Relationship Between Cognition and Parkinson’s Disease Symptoms: A Cross-Sectional Analysis

Honorable Mention: Jillian Endicott

• “Written On Our Hearts”: Science Fiction and Fantasy as Law and Gospel

Poster Winner: Cordelia Loyola

 

 

Tier Two

1st Place: Paul Schulteis

• Evaluation of DNA K-mer Content Expected Value Algorithms

2nd Place: Patrick Mercier

• Purity And Entrance Liturgy In The Psalms

3rd Place: Audrey Kaufman

• Complex Simplicity: Beauty in Mathematics & Art

Poster Winner: Madelynn Chatwin