College Honors
Location
Smith Hall, Rehm Library, 310
Start Date
22-4-2026 9:00 AM
End Date
22-4-2026 4:00 PM
First Advisor
Timothy Joseph
Second Advisor
Mary Ebbott
Third Advisor
Katherine Lu Hsu
Fourth Advisor
Lyz Renshaw
Department
College Honors Program and College Scholars/Fenwick
Description
9 - 9:45 A.M. | Isabel Sullivan ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Timothy Joseph) Grammatical Gender in Virgil’s Bucolics
Tess Patti ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Mary Ebbott) Discovered a Woman: Experiences of Lament in Greek Tragedy
Caroline Boardman ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Katherine Lu Hsu) The Gorgon and the Goddesses: Constructing Sacred Identity through Apotropaic Imagery
9:50 - 10:35 A.M. | Beck Schutte ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Lyz Renshaw) Challenges for Legally Blind Long-Distance Runners
Claudia Ericson ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Carmen Jarrin) Fiction, Fieldnotes, and Filipina Beauty: An Analysis of Aesthetics Through a Narrative, Ethnographic, and Nostalgic Lens
Tyler Hall ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Michael Creane) Conscientiousness and Collegiate Athletes: An Item Response Theory Analysis
10:40 - 11:25 A.M. | Leo Bubb ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Patrick Whitmarsh)
Abigail Clark ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Elliott Visconsi) Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Black Experience of Jim Crow in Nonfiction and Fiction
Anna Howie ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Fr. John Gavin, S.J.) Shoreless, Indefinite as God: Apocalypse, Eschatology, and America in Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick"
11:30 A.M. - 12:05 P.M. | Kara Battaglia ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Jula Paxson) Regulation of Quiescence and Proliferative Capacity in Canine Lung Mesenchymal Stromal Cells by Extracellular Matrix Stiffness
John Zimmerman ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Dan Tortorice) The Honduran Bono 10,000 Program: A Triple Difference Review
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12:05 - 12:45 P.M. | Break
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12:45 - 1:30 P.M. | Eileen Ledesma ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Maria Rodrigues) Identity and Intervention: Constructivism and U.S. Foreign Policy toward the Dominican Republic
Audrey McConnell ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Carmen Jarrin) La Mob in Motion: An Ethnography of Contemporary Leftist Organizing in Massachusetts
Harry Courts ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Özge Savaş) Strategic Silence: The Greek Left's Avoidance of the 1922 Smyrna Catastrophe During the Refugee Crisis, 2015-2019
1:35 - 2:20 P.M. | Isabelle van der Spuy ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Todd Lewis) The Force of Multivariate Thinking
Julianna Stratton ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Chris Arrell) Consonance, Dissonance, and the Brain: Directions in Modern Concert Music
Samuel Reed ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Dominic Machado) The Postcolonial Lens in New England Museums
2:25 - 3:10 P.M. | Jaden Kirkwood ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Victor Matheson) Economic Impact of the Las Vegas Formula 1 Grand Prix
Danielle Soriano ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Donna Demanarig) A Study of Anti-Colonial Parenting Styles and Asian American Mental Health
Ana Lucia Fernåndez del Castillo ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Fr. Peter Nguyen, S.J.) Educational Formation in a Fragmented Age
College Honors
Smith Hall, Rehm Library, 310
9 - 9:45 A.M. | Isabel Sullivan ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Timothy Joseph) Grammatical Gender in Virgil’s Bucolics
Tess Patti ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Mary Ebbott) Discovered a Woman: Experiences of Lament in Greek Tragedy
Caroline Boardman ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Katherine Lu Hsu) The Gorgon and the Goddesses: Constructing Sacred Identity through Apotropaic Imagery
9:50 - 10:35 A.M. | Beck Schutte ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Lyz Renshaw) Challenges for Legally Blind Long-Distance Runners
Claudia Ericson ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Carmen Jarrin) Fiction, Fieldnotes, and Filipina Beauty: An Analysis of Aesthetics Through a Narrative, Ethnographic, and Nostalgic Lens
Tyler Hall ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Michael Creane) Conscientiousness and Collegiate Athletes: An Item Response Theory Analysis
10:40 - 11:25 A.M. | Leo Bubb ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Patrick Whitmarsh)
Abigail Clark ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Elliott Visconsi) Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Black Experience of Jim Crow in Nonfiction and Fiction
Anna Howie ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Fr. John Gavin, S.J.) Shoreless, Indefinite as God: Apocalypse, Eschatology, and America in Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick"
11:30 A.M. - 12:05 P.M. | Kara Battaglia ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Jula Paxson) Regulation of Quiescence and Proliferative Capacity in Canine Lung Mesenchymal Stromal Cells by Extracellular Matrix Stiffness
John Zimmerman ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Dan Tortorice) The Honduran Bono 10,000 Program: A Triple Difference Review
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12:05 - 12:45 P.M. | Break
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12:45 - 1:30 P.M. | Eileen Ledesma ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Maria Rodrigues) Identity and Intervention: Constructivism and U.S. Foreign Policy toward the Dominican Republic
Audrey McConnell ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Carmen Jarrin) La Mob in Motion: An Ethnography of Contemporary Leftist Organizing in Massachusetts
Harry Courts ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Özge Savaş) Strategic Silence: The Greek Left's Avoidance of the 1922 Smyrna Catastrophe During the Refugee Crisis, 2015-2019
1:35 - 2:20 P.M. | Isabelle van der Spuy ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Todd Lewis) The Force of Multivariate Thinking
Julianna Stratton ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Chris Arrell) Consonance, Dissonance, and the Brain: Directions in Modern Concert Music
Samuel Reed ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Dominic Machado) The Postcolonial Lens in New England Museums
2:25 - 3:10 P.M. | Jaden Kirkwood ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Victor Matheson) Economic Impact of the Las Vegas Formula 1 Grand Prix
Danielle Soriano ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Donna Demanarig) A Study of Anti-Colonial Parenting Styles and Asian American Mental Health
Ana Lucia Fernåndez del Castillo ’26 (Faculty Mentor: Fr. Peter Nguyen, S.J.) Educational Formation in a Fragmented Age
Comments
Additional Faculty Mentors: Carmen Jarrin, Michael Creane, Patrick Whitmarsh, Elliott Visconsi, Fr. John Gavin, S.J., Jula Paxson, Dan Tortorice, Maria Rodrigues, Carmen Jarrin, Özge Savaș, Todd Lewis Chris Arrell, Dominic Machado, Victor Matheson, Donna Demanarig, Fr. Peter Nguyen, S.J.