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Department of Business and Nonprofit Studies
The Use of Artificial Intelligence to Recruit Employees
Author: Josh Tullier
Faculty Mentor: Cindi Bearden, BS, MAc, CPA
Program: Accountancy
Financial Analysis: Marriott International
Author: Maurie White
Faculty Mentor: Cindi Bearden, BS, MAc, CPA
Program: Accountancy
Advancing Conflict Transformation Concept Proposal
Author: Kyle Hildebrand
Faculty Mentors: Linda H. McMullen, PhD; David Oki Ahearn, PhD, MDiv; Kim Barber Knoll, MFA, AEA; Bobby Jo Otto, PhD
Program: Nonprofit Leadership
Department of History and Social Sciences
Theodore Roosevelt’s Role in the Evolution of American Football
Author: Trenton Cook
Faculty Mentors: Kevin Shirley, PhD; Richard Soash, PhD
Program: History
“Everlasting Meddling and Muddling”: Isolationism and the Harding Administration’s Misguidance of American Public
Author: Austin Harper
Faculty Mentors: Kevin Shirley, PhD; Richard Soash, PhD
Program: History
Pakistani-conomy: Did the Eisenhower Doctrine Truly Help?
Author: Ben Hays
Faculty Mentors: Kevin Shirley, PhD; Richard Soash, PhD
Program: History
Transformative Justice and Racial Reconciliation
Author: Tia Braxton
Faculty Mentor: John A. Tures, PhD
Program: Political Science
COVID-19 Pandemic Politics, Economics, & Policies on Death Rates in 2020
Authors: Tia Braxton, Thomas Bird, Kristina Calixto, Andrue Davis, Madison Demkowski, Jacob
Jeffords, Nia Johnson, Jalen Morgan, Jake Thrailkill, and Olivia Hanners
Faculty Mentor: John A. Tures, PhD
Program: Political Science
What Drives Policy on Morality: Consensus of the Governed or Governing Consent?
Author: Damir Rosencrants
Faculty Mentor: John A. Tures, PhD
Program: Political Science
America’s Election System and the Fall of Duverger’s Law
Author: Caleb Tyler
Faculty Mentor: John A. Tures, PhD
Program: Political Science
Factors that Influence Detention Officers’ Perceptions of Jail Populations
Author: Madison Murphy
Faculty Mentor: Bobby Jo Otto, PhD
Program: Sociology
Department of Humanities
“A Direct Consequence of a Political Purpose”: The Nature of Language and Audience in Slave Narratives
Author: Cary Burton
Faculty Mentor: Anthony Wilson, PhD
Program: English
Grief, Exploitation, Blame: An Echo of Rhetoric in the Influenza and Coronavirus Pandemics
Author: Miranda Cox
Faculty Mentor: Anthony Wilson, PhD
Program: English
Absurdism: The Catalyst of Self-Dissolution in Samuel Beckett and T. S. Eliot
Author: Evan Johnson
Faculty Mentor: Anthony Wilson, PhD
Program: English
Depression in Literature: Weapons Against Oppression
Author: Jayme Middleton
Faculty Mentor: Anthony Wilson, PhD
Program: English
Invisible Characters as the Personification of Mid-Twentieth Century Existential Anxiety
Author: Alexis Westrick
Faculty Mentor: Anthony Wilson, PhD
Program: English
Linking Jairus’ Daughter, the Hemorrhaging Woman, and Jesus in the Gospel of Mark
Author: Lauren Braswell
Faculty Mentor: John G. Cook, PhD
Program: Religion
Department of Mathematics
Reducing the Risk of COVID-19 Throughout College Residential Communities
Authors: Austin Harper, Alyssa G. Lord, Holston Sebaugh, Carlos Valdez
Faculty Mentor: Carol Yin, PhD
Program: Mathematics
Modeling COVID-19 Data Using an SIR Model
Author: Alyssa G. Lord
Faculty Mentor: Stacey L. Ernstberger, PhD
Program: Mathematics
Traveling Salesman in LaGrange, Georgia
Author: Holston Sebaugh
Faculty Mentor: Stacey L. Ernstberger, PhD
Program: Mathematics
Department of Sciences
The Effect of Water Quality on Bat Activity Over Streams in the Middle Chattahoochee River Watershed in Western Georgia
Author: Katarina de Castro
Faculty Mentor: Mark Yates, PhD
Program: Biology
The Effect of Chlorpyrifos Exposure on NFH Concentration in Dopamine-Producing Cells
Authors: Lilly DeGennaro and Melinda Pomeroy-Black, MS, PhD
Faculty Mentor: Melinda Pomeroy-Black, MS, PhD
Program: Biology
Exploring the Relationship Among Social Media Use, Body Image, and Gender
Author: Abbigail Arrington
Faculty Mentor: Stephanie Thomas, PhD
Program: Psychological Science
The Relationship Between Substance Use, Self-Esteem, Academic Performance, and
Parental Divorce
Author: Kennedy Conner
Faculty Mentor: Stephanie Thomas, PhD
Program: Psychological Science
Student Perceptions of Potential Child Abuse
Author: Kiara Tookes-Williams
Faculty Mentor: Stephanie Thomas, PhD
Program: Psychological Science
