Undergraduate Virtual Conference
The 2021 Undergraduate Conference is a virtual showcase of the important, high-level research Westminster undergraduate students have done. Students across various academic programs and schools participated with the approval of their faculty sponsor. Take a moment to explore all of the interesting projects students have undertaken this year.
Keynote Address
Dr. Noël M. Voltz
Listen to that Muffled Chord for She Calls: Finding the Voices of Black Women through Undergraduate Research
Student Presentations
Stephanie Anglin
Welsh Nationalism: Identity Politics, Whiteness, and Leek Legends
Anika Anna Angriman
Architecture as a Weapon of Political and Social Control in Dictatorships
Kate Blair
Sacred In-Between
Rebecca Blanton
Reframing Systemic Solutions
Hailey Brookins
Modeling Drought Severity with Meteorological Predictors
Hailey Brookins & Ian Nadel
The long-term impacts of Green Phoenix Farm: Gaps in data collection methodology
Hezro Da Silva
A Computational Study of Protonated Glutamine Decomposition
Teagan Feely
Evaluation of Potential HDV-like Reservoirs
Taylor Fuchs
The Effect of SD
Rebecca Madsen
National Air Quality and Its Effects on Adult Asthma, A Time Series Analysis
Kian J. McInnis
Naivete in Power
Luke Miller
Limnology of Silver Lake
Nia Morton
The Power of Naming as Coloniality: Shaping our Ontologies and Epistemologies
Niklas Nihtila
Impact of regulation changes and interest rates on private company acquisitions
Reece Rhodes
Numerical Approximations of a Computer Chip
Sam Shaver
The Short Squeeze of Gamestop: Retail Investor vs. Hedge Funds
Lucas Vayo
Impact and Prevention of Racial Bias for Medical Providers: A Review
Paula Wang
Portfolio Optimization & Forecast
Blaine Whitford
No Neutral Ground: The Activist Churches Confront Apartheid
Bailey Wymes
Queer Art as a Tool for Activism