Georgia Collegiate Honors Conference

On Feb. 21-22, eighteen GCSU Honors students participated in the Georgia Collegiate Honors Conference at Georgia Tech. They all did an excellent job presenting their scholarship! Each student’s presentation and mentor are listed below. Chloe Melton won first place in the Social Sciences category for her paper on the history of the Body Mass Index. Congratulations, Chloe! And a big thank you to Dr. Steve Elliott-Gower and Ms. Anna Whiteside for driving students to the conference. 

• Kassie Arps, “The American Public Square: Who Really Owns It?” Mentor: Dr. Harold Mock.
• Kathryn Brook, “There’re No Roller Coasters Underwater! How Children Reference Generic Counterexamples.” Mentor: Dr. Ashley Taylor.
• Kathryn Cooper, “The Impact of Restrictive Sociopolitical Legislation on Nonwhite Enrollment in Higher Education.” Mentor: Dr. Min Su Kim.
• Tommy Creekmore, “Unsex Me Here: Violence and Femininity in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Leskov’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.” Mentor: Dr. Jenny Flaherty.
• Allison Decker, “Learning to Resist: Rhetoric and Education in Life Among the Piutes.” Mentor: Dr. Katie Simon.
• Sofia Legoff Flores, “Credit Card Use and Financial Literacy among College Students.” Mentor: Dr. Jim Winchester.
• Morgan Gosdin, “Does Locus of Control Influence Risk Preferences in Tasks with Perceived Control?” Mentor: Dr. Diana Young.
• Maryellen Hagberg, “Art Under a Totalitarian Regime: Brazilian Neoconcrete Art Combatting Censorship.” Mentor: Dr. Katy Newman.
• Daniel Hastings, “Complete Genome Sequencing and Annotation of the Gordonia Terrae Bacteriophage MooreStings.” Mentor: Dr. Arnab Sengupta.
• Claire Kosobud, “Études for Election: Interpreting the Sonic Rhetoric of Presidential Nominees Hillary Clinton and Kamal Harris.” Mentor: Dr. Dana Gorzelany-Mostak.
• Jayden Kypri, “Synthesis, Characterization, and Bioactivity of Alloxan Benzylthiosemicarbazone (ALL-BTSC) and its Palladium Complex on Topoisomerase IIa.” Mentor: Dr. Wathsala Medawala.
• Chloe Melton, “The History of BMI: An Analysis of Body Mass Index and its Utility as a Health Indicator.” Mentors: Dr. Brian Newsome and Dr. Helen DuPree.
• Juliann Mackiewicz, “Coffee Substitutions in the Confederacy During the Civil War.” Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Opperman.
• Jack McKinney, “A Rhetoric of Complacency: An Ideographic Analysis of Bernie Sanders’ 2016 DNC Speech.” Dr. Jamie Downing.
• Samantha Paton, “Nuclear Postures and Geopolitical Shifts in the Modern Era.”
• Kayley Owens and Bethany Tapee, “Climate Injustice in the Global South: Taking Action.” Mentor: Dr. Steve Elliott-Gower.
• Shani Thompson, “Building Coping Skills in a 3rd -5th Grade Classroom for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders.” Mentor: Dr. Katie Whipple.