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Past Research Day Awardees

The Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship Awards for Excellence in the Liberal Arts are presented each year starting in 2016. Each year, the members of the University of Wyoming Chapter are honored to be able to recognize undergraduate researchers who expertly weave together physical, intellectual, ethical and social issues in their research.

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2016

Birdsong, Music, and Value Judgments
Catherine Cloetta, Zoology and Physiology

Understanding the Human-Elephant Conflict in India: A First-hand Perspective
Anne N. Reed, Zoology & Physiology

Pip's Spatial Education in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations
Roslyn Fleming, English
 


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2017

How Telling is Author Voice? Further Associations Between Personality and Writing
Jasper E. Hunt, Psychology

Magic Use in Roman Sexual Performance
Anne Chenchar Classics

The Blue French Horn: Intertwining Origin Stories in How I Met Your Mother
Sydney Stein, Communication and Journalism

 


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2018

CWC’s Interdisciplinary Climate Change Expedition (ICCE): Measuring Black Carbon, Water Quantity, and Water Quality in the Dinwoody Cirque
Grace Hartman & Marten Baur, Environment and Natural Resources

“I’d Strike the Son if He Insulted Me”: Milton and Melville’s Radical Individuals
Benjamin Platt, English


Spring 2019 GEOL 2220 Communicating Earth Science class, authors of “A Geologic Companion to John McPhee’s Rising from the Plains.” Back row: Prof. Carol Frost, Lou Mallon, Blaire Voss, Patrick Megown, Henry Hoes. Front row: Logan Fox, Hollis Marriott, Jiwei Kang, and Alex Sivitskis.

2019

Ethical Understandings and Approaches to Autonomous Vehicles
Kathryn McVicker, Political Science

A Geologic Companion to John McPhee’s Rising from the Plains
Logan Fox, Henry Hoes, Jiwei Kang, Lou Mallon, Hollis Marriott, Patrick Megown, Alex Sivitskis, Blaire Voss, Geology

Abigail Blesi

2022

The Final Blackout
Abigail Blesi, Secondary Education

Detecting Cars in Bad Weather Using Thermal Imagery
Oreoluwa Babatunde, Christian Bitzas, Brady Wagstaff, Computer Engineering

Maeve Knepper

2023

Equilibria
Ema Kurbos-Cooper, Environmental Systems Science

Evaluating the Impacts of Water Scarcity on the People of Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Maeve Knepper, Economics and International Studies





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