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Title: Not credible until proven credible
Author: Manley, Mariah
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Media literacy, Internet literacy
Description: My presentation is an overview of what makes a source credible and what causes it to lose its purpose or credibility. It addresses Authority, Purpose, and Currency while also explaining how this helps individuals find credibility. My poster also t...

Title: Natural phenomena edition
Author: Voigt, Suzanne, Rodrigez, Dominique, Turner, Zoe
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Media literacy, Artificial intelligence, Photography
Description: In the 21st century, it has become increasingly challenging to recognize which images are “real” vs. those that have been created using AI. Experts have estimated that by 2025, over 90% of online content will be created by AI, leading Congress to ...

Title: Empowered insight : navigating an informed approach to news and information consumption
Author: Murugan, Meenu, Obied, Jana
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Media literacy, Information literacy
Description: Providing an overview of six fundamental subsections of media literacy, this poster offers a thorough introduction to media literacy. It highlights how crucial it is to consume news and information with discernment by encouraging critical thought ...

Title: Comparing volunteer data before and after the COVID-19 pandemic
Author: Stevens, Lawrence, Piatak, Jaclyn
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-), Volunteers
Description: The COVID-19 pandemic affected volunteer management and nonprofit organizations nationwide. In this study, I will examine volunteering before and after the pandemic to offer several solutions to manage the growing need for volunteers better. This ...

Title: Mohawk Industries Inc. comprehensive analysis honors case
Author: Beale, Zach
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Business enterprises, Manufacturing industries
Description: This comprehensive analysis of Mohawk Industries Inc. provides a detailed overview of the company, including its history, mission, and values. The report analyzes the flooring industry in which Mohawk operates, including market size, growth prospe...

Title: Commercializing craft : Native American artistry at residential schools within the United States from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century
Author: Schutt, Jaden
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Indigenous peoples, Off-reservation boarding schools, Indigenous arts
Description: My thesis specifically focused on federally instructed and federally implemented Native American art at residential boarding schools from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. Specifically, I analyzed the evolution of the Native art cu...

Title: Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) as a lens of participatory learning and exposure to environmental racism in the United States
Author: Alabi, Mora, Fotiushang, Nikol
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Alternate reality games, Environmental racism
Description: Contemporary educational models emphasize educators employ tools to increase engagement and collaborative thinking in student learning. Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) have recently been found to have great potential for language immersion and cult...

Title: The politics of pollution in America's most vulnerable communities
Author: Clark, Caylea
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Pollution, Poverty
Description: Throughout the history of the United States, corporate facility polluters have been targeting low socioeconomic status and high minority communities across the country. This has been displayed through countless studies including this thesis and ac...

Title: “Why so serious?” : antisocial trolling behavior and its relationship with everyday psychopathy and sadism
Author: Siegel, AJ, Peach, Hannah D.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Online trolling, Antisocial personality disorders
Description: Trolling is an antisocial form of online communication in which users, known as trolls, initiate negative and taunting interactions to disrupt digital communication. While trolling is a common online practice ranging from innocent to potentially d...

Title: Second line to front line
Author: Cagle, Lily, Skillen, Joseph
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Jazz, Tuba music
Description: From the early 1960’s to the 1970’s/80’s, there was a period of innovation, experimentation, and musical growth for tubists. The tuba, a bass voice, in music has held the bass foundational role in musical literature ranging from the romantic perio...

Title: Incels and The Red Pill : preventing the growth of online misogyny
Author: Starr, Evie
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Misogyny, Incels
Description: In an increasingly digital world, the problem of radicalization and online extremism has become more relevant than ever before. One such example is the networked misogyny of the manosphere and its associated subgroups. One of these groups is made ...

Title: La casa de las flores : a case study of Queer Mexican representation in millennial telenovelas
Author: Eric Phann
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Television soap operas, Queer studies
Description: Telenovelas are a TV genre unique to Latin America and are often colloquially referred to as "Spanish soap operas'' since, like US soap operas, they feature a storyline that evolves from episode to episode and airs every weekday. A key difference,...

Title: Auditory processing difficulties influence on perceptual learning
Author: Fiallo, Katherine M., Galati, Alexia
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Auditory perception, Perceptual learning
Description: Understanding spoken speech is a complex process that comes to most people easily, yet past research demonstrates that some people face difficulties with auditory processing. Listeners adjust to variations in speech by integrating auditory, visual...

Title: Windows and mirrors : a content analysis of diversity in the Common Core Text Exemplars
Author: Romney, Kelsey M.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Children's literature, Multiculturalism
Description: As diversity in the United States student population increases, children’s literature should be reflective of that growing diversity. A descriptive content analysis was conducted to analyze the gender and racial diversity of the main characters/pe...

Title: Submicroscopic infection and G6PD deficiency in malaria patients
Author: Witherspoon, Logan, Witherspoon, Logan, Kepple, Daniel, Lo, Eugenia, Abagero, Beka
Date Created: 2022, 2022, 2022
Subjects--Topical: Malaria, Public health
Description: Plasmodium vivax malaria is a neglected tropical disease, despite being more geographically widespread than any other form of malaria. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) is a cytosolic enzyme with a vital role for the integrity and functioni...

Title: Alternative grading strategies for an anti-Black institution of higher learning
Author: Stevens, Lawrence, Paquette, Elisabeth
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Grading and marking (Students), Education, Higher, Anti-racism
Description: Racist grading practices and policies in higher education have existed to perpetuate white supremacy and privilege while at a disservice to minority students. Minority students in higher education often face discrimination for being of a lower soc...

Title: Hedda Grab-Kernmayer in Theresienstadt
Author: Sheffield, Emily, Grymes, Jay
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Music, Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945), Nazi concentration camps, Gender identity, History
Description: During the Holocaust, mezzo-soprano Hedda Grab-Kernmayer (1899-1990) was one of the most prominent musicians in the Nazi ghetto of Theresienstadt (Terezín). During the earliest days of the ghetto, she organized and starred in various unaccompanied...

Title: Image dilution using Harris corner detection and geometric kernels
Author: James, Aiden, Li, Xingjie Helen
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Sparse matrices, Matrices
Description: Image files contain large amounts of data. An image is essentially a matrix of values, often represented as RGBA (red, green, blue, alpha) arrays. A large three dimensional matrix with a height and width likely in the hundreds can take long for a ...

Title: Beyond the PCA : a comprehensive review of dimension reduction techniques
Author: Kenjale, Tanmay
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Statistics, Dimension reduction (Statistics), Regression analysis
Description: Regression analysis is a key tool in modeling the relationship between predictor variables and the conditional mean of the response variable. However, as the number of predictors increases, existing estimation methods become challenging. Dimension...

Title: ModuleLog : module based approach to anomaly detection in parallel file system logs
Author: Egersdoerfer, Chris, Dai, Dong, Zhang, Di
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer networks, Anomaly detection (Computer security), Computer science
Description: With the increasing prevalence of Parallel File Systems (PFSes) in the context of vast and complex server networks, the importance of accurate anomaly detection on runtime logs of parallel file systems is increasing. But as it currently stands, ma...