March 22

To find speakers listed by department, as well as talk titles and abstracts, visit the speakers pages for graduate and undergraduate honors students. 

9:15-10:15 AM

GRAD 12: A Humanist's Guide to Technology

James Room

Adrienne Resha, American Studies
Jamie Eiseman, GWU, International Affairs
Jay Jolles, American Studies

GRAD 13: Won't You Be My Neighbor

York Room

Vania Blaiklock, American Studies
Ruth Bekele & Aarushi Desai, Public Policy
Rebekah Toussaint, History, *Award winner

GRAD 14: Honey, We Shrunk the Science

Tidewater Room
Hannah Machiorlete, Biology
Christian D'Orgeix, Biology
Darren Kirkendall, Biology


10:30-11:30 AM

Presentations by Award For Excellence Winners

Tidewater Room

Chair: Christopher Carone, Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Studies 

Amanda Mitchell
Chemistry


William & Mary Interdisciplinary Award for Excellence in Research


Jenny Merriman
History


Graduate Studies Advisory Board Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences


Nicolas DeStefano
Physics


Graduate Studies Advisory Board Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Natural and Computational Sciences


11:00 AM -12:00 PM

Honors "Thesis in Three" Presentations 

Chesapeake A
Erin Cearlock, Anthropology

Samuel Gruber, Psychological Sciences
Jessica Horner, Biology
Kendall McKinley, History
Gabrielle Riddlemoser, Neuroscience

12:30-1:30 PM

Honors e-Poster Presentations, Session 1

Tidewater Room

John Babbitts, Linguistics

Katherine Casagrande, Government

Kaitlyn Crowley, Data Science
Cecilia Deasy, Art History

Nicole Eubanks, Linguistics

Dolly Lebow, Anthropology

Olivia Ritchey, Psychological Sciences
Yi Shao, Philosophy

Jungmin Shin, Chemistry

Travis Slocumb, Religious Studies

Anna Wilkinson, Art History

GRAD 15: Across the Lifespan

James Room 

Alicia Mosher, Virginia State University, Social Work
Mutian Li, Psychological Sciences

Honors Panel 7

York Room

Libby Doughty, CAMS

Izabella Martinez, Russian & Post-Soviet Studies

Alyson Reynolds, International Relations

Charlotte Russell, Anthropology

2:00-3:00 PM

Honors e-Poster Presentations, Session 2

Tidewater Room

Nicholas Ayoub, Studio Art

Nicole Ganti, History

Maggie Kettelberger, Neuroscience

Benjamin Lee, Philosophy

Diego Morandi Zerpa, Neuroscience

Daniel Posthumus, Economics

Carina Rosenberg, Psychological Sciences

Calvin Sloan, Anthropology

Caitlin Sughrue, Biology

Sophia Vandevander, Art History

Jonathan Wilkins, Government


Honors Panel 8

James Room

Julia Bowers, Classical Studies

Sarah Lage, Psychological Sciences

Elizabeth Dell, Gender, Sexuality, & Women's Studies

Caleb Fulford, Government

Honors Panel 9

York Room

Julia Mitchell, Chemistry

Cassidy Gersten, Biology

Quanhan Zhou, Psychological Sciences

Phillip Ellison, Economics

Honors Panel 10

Sadler 257

Megan Fleeharty, Biology

Corinne Vanella, Biology

Julia Drennan, Biology

Lin Fang, Biology

3:00-5:00 PM

Poster Presentations & Networking Reception, Chesapeake Room

Graduate Poster Presentations

Zhen An, Psychological Sciences

Ansley Crutchfield, Psychological Sciences

Molly Goldberg, Psychological Sciences

Rosemary Ketron, Public Policy

Adriana Lopez, Psychological Sciences

S M Sarwar, Computer Science

Pravin Sharma, Applied Science

Emma Stephenson, Psychological Sciences

Julia Zhou, Psychological Sciences

Andrea Zourou, Applied Science 


Undergraduate Honors Poster Presenters

Madeline Assaad, Biology

Miranda Bate, Biology

Amber Cantú, Neuroscience/Chemistry

Abigail DeCesare, Biology

Alexander Ferentinos, Biology

Taylor Fischer, History

Hudson Fortney, Anthropology

Madeleine Harris, Neuroscience

Mia Houdek, Biology

Ian Krajna, Biology

Yun Ma, Chemistry

Celeste Phillips, Biology

Julia Rashid, Neuroscience

Jacob Schapiro, History

Claudia Smith, Physics

Emma Smith, Chemistry

Megha Vasudevan, Linguistics

Jinghi Zhao, Neuroscience