Browsing COLS Undergraduate Research Symposium by Title
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Commemoration or Profit? The Truth Behind Belfast’s Titanic
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Comparative Research on American & South Korean Feminism
(College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2024-05-03)As the use of technology changes how we interact with social movements, the 4B Movement of South Korea has spread widely through digital spaces. This recent radical women’s movement utilizes four key tenets to push for ... -
Crafts, Contests, and Control?: An Insider Analysis of Bias and Its Effects Within the Cosplay Community
(College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2025-05-02)When a subculture is built upon the rubble of insecurity, the end product is imbued with the bias and anger of those who laid the first brick. Despite the subculture of cosplay and anime conventions originating from a ... -
Dairy Farms and Disasters: Preparedness and Emergency Management
(College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2025-05-02)Although the number of dairy farms in the United States is shrinking, the risk of tragic disasters is increasing due, in part, to changing climate conditions. The possibility of needing a plan for emergency management on ... -
The Depiction of Myths in The Last of Us and its Meaning for Survivors
(College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2025-05-02)The Depiction of Myths in The Last of Us and its Meaning for Survivors explores how the series of The Last of Us uses myths to construct meaning for survivors navigating a world shaped by an infection of death. Drawing ... -
A Discovery of Witches: Sorcery, Courtly Love, Heresy, and the Divine in the Middle Ages
(College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2024-05-03)The modern recounting of witch trials tend to focus on the implausibility of the supernatural. This disdain for witchcraft as a concept has seeped through the documentation of its history. Whether through the soaring heights ... -
The Effect of Covid-19 on Bat Research in Wisconsin
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The Effects of Fear: Club Disney and the Privatization of Recreation
(College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2024-05-03)This research explores the history of how fear has shaped public and private recreational facilities and how Club Disney is a prime example of this fear in effect. The late 1800s and early 1900s saw a rise in public parks ... -
¡El hambre no espera!: The Role of Radical Food Sovereignty Movements in Reshaping our Food Systems
(College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2023-05-05)Food sovereignty movements have emerged worldwide in response to social, economic, and environmental crises brought on by the dominant corporate food regime. One especially important moment was the 2007-2008 world food ... -
Fire, Flowers, and Franquismo: Self-Commemoration of the Valencian Identity in the Fallas Festival (1939-2023)
(College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2023-05-05)I examine the cultural significance of the Fallas Festival in Valencia, Spain and how Valencians annually deconstruct and reconstruct their collective identity through the festival. Valencian culture and festivities ... -
GAPDH is Determined to be a Useful Control Antibody for Studying Sickle Cell Disease in Livers
(College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2025-05-02)Using the Western blot procedure, a reliable control antibody was determined to be GAPDH when studying Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). Three primary antibodies were tested for their consistency in determining protein concentration ... -
Holodomor Famine Commemoration and the Challenges of Developing a Shared National Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine (1991-2023)
(College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2023-05-05)In this research project, I examine Ukraine’s struggle to develop a shared national identity after the fall of the Soviet Union. This project addresses Holodomor, an artificial famine from 1932-1933 that devastated Soviet ... -
How the Bridgetown Initiative is Changing the Way we Fight Climate Change
(College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2023-05-05)This project examines the Bridgetown Initiative, a policy designed to fight climate change and the debt crisis introduced by Mia Motley, the Prime Minister of Barbados at COP 27 in November 2022 (pictured in Figure 1). ... -
Hydrogen Production with Oxide Semiconductors
(College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2025-05-02)Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting can produce hydrogen gas as a means to store and transport renewable energy. One method of PEC water splitting uses n-type semiconductors made of metal oxides. We created oxide ...