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10:00am EDT

Textual & Investigative Oral Presentations JFL From Theses to Podcasts: A Digital Humanities Analysis of Religious Communication from the Reformation to the Digital Age JFL 261B - Group Study Room Landscape in Early 20th Century Canadian Literature JFL 380 - Scholars Lounge Past His Prime: Polonius and the Language of Advice JFL 362 - Scholars Conference Room The Cold War's Impact on ABBA--The USSR's Temporary Acceptance of ABBA JFL 261A - Group Study Room

10:30am EDT

A Parlamente of Liberté, Égalité, and Fraternité: Gender Inequality in the Heptameron JFL 001B - Terrace Conference Room Amplifying the Issues of Colorism: How Literature Challenges Colorist Beauty Standards JFL 362 - Scholars Conference Room Just One More Thing, S'il Vous Plaît: The Use of Affective Presentation in Fictional Detectives Hercule Poirot and Lt. Columbo JFL 380 - Scholars Lounge The Assessment of Women: A Study of the Recruitment, Assessment, and Training of Female Personnel in the OSS JFL 261B - Group Study Room To Loot or Not to Loot: The Rise and Fall of the Louvre (1793-1815) JFL 001A - Terrace Conference Room Women in the Early Church: Developing a Documentary JFL 261A - Group Study Room

11:00am EDT

Decoding Christianese: Analyzing the Double-Edged Sword of Evangelical Jargon JFL 380 - Scholars Lounge Enduring Legacies: The Constitutional and Policy Impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 JFL 001B - Terrace Conference Room Moving Toward Unworthy Life: German Eugenical Views Before 1933 JFL 261B - Group Study Room Myth in Service of Sin: Theology and Mythology in Dante's Inferno JFL 261A - Group Study Room Spirit-Enabled Sonship in Paul: Adoption and the Cry "Abba" JFL 362 - Scholars Conference Room Ulysses S. Grant: How an Author and a Memoir Saved a President JFL 001A - Terrace Conference Room

11:30am EDT

"I Guess It Was My Turn": German Public Perception of the Sterilization Program from 1933 - 1939 JFL 261B - Group Study Room A Pass From the Field to the Couch: The Story of How Television Spurred the Embedding of Professional Football in American Popular Culture JFL 001A - Terrace Conference Room Recovering Children's Choirs: Bonhoeffer's Musical Pneumatology and the Formation of Polyphonic Fellowship JFL 362 - Scholars Conference Room Taming the Spirits: How Late Antiquity Domesticated the Bible's Supernatural World JFL 380 - Scholars Lounge The Influence of Pre-War Cruiser Design and Doctrine on the Guadalcanal Campaign of World War II JFL 261A - Group Study Room When Faith Becomes a House of Cards: C.S. Lewis’ Lament JFL 001B - Terrace Conference Room

12:00pm EDT

A Created Longing: A Textual Analysis of Sehnsucht JFL 001A - Terrace Conference Room Mother-Daughter Ties Across Borders: Identity and Connection in Dreaming in Cuban JFL 001B - Terrace Conference Room Purposes for Sacred Song in Eighteenth-Century British Colonial America JFL 380 - Scholars Lounge The Lakota Sioux and the U.S.: What Went Wrong? JFL 261B - Group Study Room Theater of the Fright JFL 261A - Group Study Room Transnational Beings: Corner Store Entrepreneurship of MENA Immigrants of The Third Wave JFL 362 - Scholars Conference Room

12:30pm EDT

Beyond the Homefront: The Transformation of Women’s Military and Support Roles, 1941–1953 JFL 001B - Terrace Conference Room Euripides’ Medea as an Existential Protagonist: Comparing Conceptualizations of Fate in the 400s BC and the 1800s AD JFL 261A - Group Study Room Examining Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There: A Christian Calling to Spiritual Childhood JFL 380 - Scholars Lounge The Mentality of Women: The Accuracy of Mental Illness Treatment in Dreaming in Cuban JFL 261B - Group Study Room

1:00pm EDT

Basic Posters Montview Alumni Ballroom Authentic vs. Artificial Intelligence: The Effect of Generative AI on Users’ Brains JFL 261A - Group Study Room Influential Factors and Prospective Causes to the Development of Alzheimer’s Disease JFL 362 - Scholars Conference Room M.E. Bradford and American Conservatism JFL 261B - Group Study Room Not Allowed To Say Goodbye: The German Civilian's Perception of Aktion T4, 1939 - 1941 JFL 001A - Terrace Conference Room Playing the Past: Girls, Dolls, and Entrepreneurs JFL 380 - Scholars Lounge “Slaves to Sin:” Harnessing Neuroplasticity to Defeat Habitual Behaviors JFL 001B - Terrace Conference Room A Bloody Window to the Past: STR Analysis of DNA from a Bloodstained Civil War Surgical Table Montview Alumni Ballroom Allosteric Modulation of FAAH by Tocopherols Montview Alumni Ballroom An Evaluation of White-Spotted Bamboo Shark (Chiloscyllium Plagiosum) Development Montview Alumni Ballroom Analysis of the Effects of Phytocannabinoids Cannabichromene (CBC), Cannabidiol (CBD), and Cannabigerol (CBG) on the Enzyme FAAH Montview Alumni Ballroom Bacterial Purification of HAT Enzymes from Cryptococcus Neoformans: ESA1 and GCN5 Purification Montview Alumni Ballroom Characterization of Peroxidase from Butternut Squash Skin: Potential Use in Bioremediation Montview Alumni Ballroom Characterization of the Aspergillus Flavus rdiA Gene with a rdi1∆ Mutant of C. Neoformans Montview Alumni Ballroom Characterizing B1 B-Cells in Zebrafish (Danio Rerio) Montview Alumni Ballroom Characterizing Novel Peroxidase Activity Through Enzyme Kinetics and Equilibrium Binding Montview Alumni Ballroom Comparison of Hypothalamic and Hippocampal Neurogenesis Across Sexes and Ages of Mice Montview Alumni Ballroom Cyclical Relationships and Attachment Theory Montview Alumni Ballroom Differential Effects of Curcumin and C646 on Mitogenic and Metabolic Signaling in Insulin-Stimulated HepG2 Cells Montview Alumni Ballroom Disability Studies in Historical Context: The Research Behind the Creative Writing Process Montview Alumni Ballroom Effect of In-Utero Exposure to a Western-Style Diet on Testis Development Montview Alumni Ballroom Effects of Environmental Xenoestrogens on Immune System Development in Mus Musculus Montview Alumni Ballroom Elephant's Toothpaste: A Statistical Investigation of the Yeast-Catalyzed Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide Montview Alumni Ballroom Enzyme Kinetics of FAAH Montview Alumni Ballroom Evaluating Sexual Dimorphism in an Urban Neonate Regina Septemvittata Population Montview Alumni Ballroom Evaluation of Cadaver Tissue Antigenicity as a Practical Teaching Tool for Immunohistochemistry Montview Alumni Ballroom Forensic Differentiation of Canine Hair Montview Alumni Ballroom Forensic Differentiation of Feline Hair Montview Alumni Ballroom Formation of Rosette-Like Hierarchical Structures on Cylindrical Titanium Surfaces Montview Alumni Ballroom Histological Quality of Fresh and Pre-fixed Tissue Montview Alumni Ballroom How Did Maternal Influenza and Tdap Vaccination Coverage Among Pregnant Women in Mississippi Change from 2018–2021, and How Do Coverage Rates Differ by Race/Ethnicity? Montview Alumni Ballroom Impacts of Interspecific Competition on Stress and Body Condition in a Montane Salamander (Plethodon Hubrichti) Montview Alumni Ballroom Impacts of Maternal Diet on Offspring Affective Behavior and Brain Morphology Montview Alumni Ballroom Increasing Fatigue Life: Position and Energy Controlled Surface Mechanical Attrition Treatment Montview Alumni Ballroom Investigating Nutritionally Derived Treatments for Metabolic Disease: Enterolactone and Its Effect on GLP-1 and PYY Secretion Montview Alumni Ballroom Investigating the Natural Communities and Flora of Candler’s Mountain Montview Alumni Ballroom Investigating the Role of the Active-Site Metal in Plant Peroxidase Catalysis Montview Alumni Ballroom Kinetic Analysis of Degradation and Maximum Catalytic Capacity for Plant Peroxidase Enzymes Montview Alumni Ballroom Mechanistic Insights of Enterolactone Within 3T3-L1 Adipocyte Cells Montview Alumni Ballroom Morphological Evaluation of Cadaveric Tissues Integrity Using Histology Staining Montview Alumni Ballroom Music Enhances Theta Brainwave Activity Regardless of Tuning Frequency Montview Alumni Ballroom Offspring Cognitive and Neurobiological Outcomes Influenced by Maternal Dietary Patterns Montview Alumni Ballroom Personality Correlations Montview Alumni Ballroom Pilot Study: Black Tea Extract and Theaflavin Polyphenols Effects on L6 Myotubes Montview Alumni Ballroom Production, Isolation and Characterization of Novel Peroxidases from Cucurbita Family Montview Alumni Ballroom Quantifying Biogenic Amines in Anaerobic Porcine Liver Decomposition for Improved PMI Estimation Using GC/MS Montview Alumni Ballroom Quantifying Neuropathy with Von Frey Filaments in Mice: Novel Neuropathic Pain Animal Model Montview Alumni Ballroom Regulation of Glut5 Expression and Fructose Uptake by Heat Stress and Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines in Enterocytes Montview Alumni Ballroom SEM-EDX Analysis of Animal Hairs for the Presence of Metals Montview Alumni Ballroom Single Step Cyanoacrylate Fumigation with Common Dyes Montview Alumni Ballroom Spectroscopic Characterization of PFAS Ligands Binding to Novel Plant Peroxidases Montview Alumni Ballroom Synthesis and Characterization of Group 7 Tricarbonyl Fluoromethyl Substituted Aromatics Montview Alumni Ballroom The 3-D Apparatus of Local Ticks: A New Insight into the Mechanism of Sensing Hosts and Their Storage of Pathogens Montview Alumni Ballroom The Impact of Maternal Western-style Diet on Ovarian Anti-Müllerian Hormone Expression and Localization in Mouse Offspring Montview Alumni Ballroom Vaccines Containing Mouse and Human Endogenous Retroviruses Demonstrate Opposite Effects on Lung Metastasis in a Murine Mammary Cancer Model Montview Alumni Ballroom Various Animal Species Microscopic Hair Analysis Montview Alumni Ballroom When the Music Stops: How Removing the Musical Score Changes the Message of the Film Montview Alumni Ballroom

1:30pm EDT

An Unfaltering Step to the End: An Analysis of Virginia Governor James L. Kemper's Veto of the 1874 Petersburg Charter JFL 261A - Group Study Room GUPPY: From Fleet Boat to Modern Submarine JFL 001B - Terrace Conference Room Inclusion May Affect Marching Band Members of Black Universities Differently than Members of White Universities: Narrative Inquiry JFL 362 - Scholars Conference Room Over the Garden Wall and The Divine Comedy: McHale's Modern Vision of Purgatory JFL 001A - Terrace Conference Room The Mythopoeic Translator in Peter Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring JFL 261B - Group Study Room

2:00pm EDT

American Phoenix: The Rise of J.D. Vance JFL 001B - Terrace Conference Room Choreographed Confession: Plath’s Engineered Extremity and Technical Voice JFL 261B - Group Study Room Winston Churchill's Crucial Role in Developing the Tank JFL 261A - Group Study Room “The Inspiration of Woman’s Genius:” The 1893 Columbian Exposition and Its Recognition of Women JFL 001A - Terrace Conference Room

2:30pm EDT

Epistemological Skepticism, Certainty, and How Knowledge Is Still Possible JFL 001A - Terrace Conference Room The Alarming Rise of Constitutional Illiteracy In America JFL 261B - Group Study Room The Secret Society of British Prisoners of War at the Albemarle Barracks JFL 261A - Group Study Room