Browsing Carroll College Student Undergraduate Research Festival 2021 by Title
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Nadine Gordimer’s Once upon a Time: the Effective Irony of Counter Fairy Tales
(2021)Nadine Gordimer’s short story Once upon a Time is a brilliant, poignant critique of South African Apartheid couched in deep symbolism. In order to enhance the effectiveness of her message, Gordimer uses tropes and motifs ... -
Neurofeedback Training as an Intervention for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, a Systematic Review
(2020-11)Objective: To review relevant literature analyzing the effectiveness of neurofeedback training (NFT) as an intervention for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Methods: Studies were gathered through PubMed and ... -
Noughts and Crosses: Designing a Robot to Play Tic-tac-toe
(2021)For years, tic-tac-toe has served as a test-piece for robotic systems. While the game requires complex functions such as multidimensional movement and computer vision, its constrained environment serves as a great way to ... -
Observation of Hammett Analysis via Cyclic Voltammetry for Solar Energy Storage
(2021-04-16)Herein we report our attempt at electrochemical analysis of thiophene compounds, as well as ferrocene, via cyclic voltammetry (CV). More specifically, we report our attempt to quantify oxidative homocoupling dimerization ... -
Palladium Catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura Synthesis of 2-(4-nitrophenyl)-thiophene and 2-(4-methylphenyl)-thiophene Monomer and Dimer
(2021)Thiophene dimerization reactions have become of interest in the growing fields of Green and Energy Chemistry, due to the ability of thiophene dimers to store energy in the carbon-carbon dimer bond. Intermittent renewable ... -
Patient Satisfaction Rates Between Nurse Practitioners and Physicians
(2021-04-14)There are numerous stigmas that surround the field of healthcare especially related to the providers within them. These stigmas are typically directed towards a patient PCP (Primary Care Provider) and their specific level ... -
A Pilot Study: The effect of microgravity on chondrocyte metabolism
(2021-04-16)Space sojourns are crucial for understanding aeronautics, physics, the solar system, and evaluating the possibility of interplanetary travel. However, there are many potential health risks associated with space travel such ... -
Quantifying the Oxidation Kinetics of Chromium (II) Dimer Complex
(2021-04-16)Redox flow batteries work by converting chemical energy, from oxidation of one species and reduction of another species, into electrical energy. Chromium (II) was one of the species that was first researched for redox ... -
Radicalization: The Appealing Path to Extremism
(2021-04-15)This project will delve deep into counterterrorism, straight to the very heart of the problem: the process by which new members are radicalized. Together we will explore how people are indoctrinated as well as the factors ... -
Reading In Between Gender Lines
(2021)Reading is an important stepping stone to learning. Early on, children are taught the basics in reading and how it can apply to future academic success. Beyond simple academics, however, lies the important aspect of reading ... -
Rebels or Racists? A Study of Pro-Confederate Flag Ideologies and Racial Discrimination
(2021)Research indicates that support of the Confederate Flag is related to racist beliefs and actions. The current study attempted to address what beliefs and behaviors are related to specific attitudes toward the Confederate ... -
The Relationship Between Disney Princess Roles and Unemployment During World War II and The Great Recession (2008)
(2020)There has been a trend of polarizing differences between female and male lead roles in the film industry. More specifically, this trend is seen in Disney Princess Films, in the World War II and The Great Recession (2008) ... -
Residential Deck Design
(2021-04-14)In this project, our team, Squared A-Way Engineering, is redesigning a residential deck for a house located within the City of Helena near the base of Mt. Helena. The current deck structure has exceeded its design life and ... -
Shoreline Erosion and Geomorphology of Canyon Ferry Lake
(2021)Canyon Ferry Lake, east of Helena, Montana, in Broadwater County, was formed in 1954 when Canyon Ferry Dam was constructed. Lakeshore residents have reported excessive erosion during recent years. Montana Power produced a ... -
Should I Not Scream?: Performative Anger in Rafeef Ziadah's Spoken Word Poetry
(2021)In this paper, I examine Palestinian Rafeef Ziadah’s spoken word poetry, focusing on how her performative anger turns her poems into acts of decolonial resistance. Specifically, Ziadah's performance mobilizes the painful ... -
Societal flourishing- a Nietzschean worldview or St. Benedict’s abbey?
(2021-04)Between Friedrich Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals and Benedict of Nursia’s Rule, one can see a way of thinking differently about virtue stemming from asceticism. Coming from different time periods and backgrounds, ... -
Stigma and Sickness: Homophobia and Anti-Sex Work Discrimination in African HIV/AIDS Infected Nations
(2020-11)Limiting the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa is impossible without specific investment and attention in the LGBTQ+, men who have sex with men (MSM), and female sex worker (FSW) populations. They have the highest HIV/AIDS ... -
Studies Towards the Synthesis of Novel Oxadiazole Derivatives for Antibiotic Screening Against Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
(2021-04-16)Bacterial antibiotic resistance continues to render current pharmaceutical drugs ineffective at preventing the growth of hard-to-treat bacterial strains. Persistent under current treatments, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus ... -
Suppressing the Black Male Vote: Ronald Reagan and the War on Drugs
(2021-04-16)The purpose of this study is to examine the ways in which the War on Drugs was wielded as a tool for political suppression, more specifically, how Ronald Reagan used the War on Drugs to suppress the African American male ... -
Synthesis of Renewable Surfactants
(2021)Herbicides have been widely used for decades to kill off weeds and help crops thrive. The active ingredient in most commercially available herbicides is glyphosate, which works to eliminate plants by preventing protein ...