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Dual Time Cosmology JFL 362 - Scholars Conference Room

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"Thank God for Michigan": Michigan Troops in the Civil War Montview Alumni Ballroom Analysis of the Contents of Oral Histories from the Voices of 9.11 Archive and the Naval History and Heritage Command Records of 9/11 at the Pentagon Montview Alumni Ballroom Evolving Marxist Criticism of Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath": Theological Tensions, Class Consciousness, and Cultural Relevance Montview Alumni Ballroom Shepherds in the Great War: The Evolution of the U.S. Army Chaplaincy and the Service of Malcolm Taylor in World War I Montview Alumni Ballroom The Mentality of Women: The Accuracy of Mental Illness Treatment in Dreaming in Cuban Montview Alumni Ballroom

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Polite but Simple: Social Perception and Morphosyntactic Variation in Southern American English JFL 261B - Group Study Room

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The Beauty of Uniquity: A Biomechanical and Statistical Analysis of Pitchers with Anomalous Arm Angles JFL 261B - Group Study Room

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Effects of Morphosyntactic and Phonological Environments on Persian Ra-Marking JFL 380 - Scholars Lounge

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Analysis of Instructional ASL Resources for dDeaf Children Montview Alumni Ballroom Assessing Communication Within Education for Students Who Are Deaf with Additional Disabilities (DWD) Montview Alumni Ballroom

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From Theses to Podcasts: A Digital Humanities Analysis of Religious Communication from the Reformation to the Digital Age JFL 261B - Group Study Room 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

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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

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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 Ulysses S. Grant: How an Author and a Memoir Saved a President JFL 001A - Terrace Conference Room

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"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 The Influence of Pre-War Cruiser Design and Doctrine on the Guadalcanal Campaign of World War II JFL 261A - Group Study Room

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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

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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

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Authentic vs. Artificial Intelligence: The Effect of Generative AI on Users’ Brains JFL 261A - Group Study 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 Disability Studies in Historical Context: The Research Behind the Creative Writing Process Montview Alumni Ballroom Investigating the Natural Communities and Flora of Candler’s Mountain Montview Alumni Ballroom Morphological Evaluation of Cadaveric Tissues Integrity Using Histology Staining Montview Alumni Ballroom

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GUPPY: From Fleet Boat to Modern Submarine JFL 001B - Terrace 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

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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

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A Heart's Home JFL 261B - Group Study Room I Liked Your Book ... Now Tell Me What It Means: Intertextual and Postmodern Influences in an Original Narrative JFL 261A - Group Study Room “Welcome to the Next Level:” How Optical Media Revolutionized the Video Game Industry JFL 362 - Scholars Conference Room Exploring the Mandelbrot Set in Real Algebras Montview Alumni Ballroom Quantitative Stewardship of the Great Commission: A Linear Programming Approach to Missionary Allocation in India Montview Alumni Ballroom

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"The Real War": A Story of Civil War Camp Life JFL 001 - Terrace Conference Room M.E. Bradford and American Conservatism JFL 001 - Terrace Conference Room The 1778 Fort Pitt Treaty: U.S. Betrayal of Lenni Lenape Sovereignty and the Start of Broken Promises JFL 001 - Terrace Conference Room The Influence of Pre-War Cruiser Design and Doctrine on the Guadalcanal Campaign JFL 001 - Terrace Conference Room The Intersection of Text and Theory: Drawing Lines Between Derrida, Barthes, Pynchon, and Calvino JFL 001 - Terrace Conference Room U.S. Involvement in Romania During World War II JFL 001 - Terrace Conference Room