SUURA 2020 Conference

The 2020 Seattle University Undergraduate Research Association (SUURA) Conference took place in spring 2020 and was held online through Canvas and Zoom.

Presentations by Subject/Discipline

Business, Communications, & Psychology

• Griffin Leemon: Intimacy Differences across Sexual Orientations
• Robert Murray: Can Dynamic Communication Help Us Learn More?

Biology & Mathematics

• Brooke Mathews & Isaac Ortega: Knotris: A New Game
• Kelemua Tesfaye & Alexandra Ionescu: Knotris Gameplay and Probability
• Jarrett Vauthier: Analysis of Methionine Salvage Pathway Mutations in the Yeast, S. cerevisiae

English

• Mark Bautista: The Editing Bay: An Original Screenplay
• Emily Brown: Who's on The Moors Now: How You on the Moors Now Got it Wrong
• Sydney Haas: Shakespeare Echoes Through Westeros: An Examination of Power and Politics in Game of Thrones
• Grace Hoglund: The Wealth of Highbury: Economics in Jane Austen's Emma
• Hana Kirchoff: A Thousand Questions, A Thousand Flowers
• Lauren Louie: Harry Potter and the Order of Society: What Rowling’s Colorblind World Does Wrong
• Annette Maxon: Creating is resisting: Using ekphrasis to understand the role of art in "Never Let Me Go"
• Ryan Thelin: Creativity In Crisis: Imaginings of Other Worlds During Quarantine
• ENGLISH ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION: 2:30-4 pm via Zoom

International Studies

• Lucas Christensen: The Rise of the Spanish Radical Right Wing
• Colleen Cronnelly: Educational Access in King County for Adult Refugees from Africa
• Christian Hinrichsen: The Kurile Cure: Ending World War II
• Mikyla Johnson: The Struggle for Women's Rights in France
• Monica McKeown: Entry Point for Assessing Sustainability in Ecotourism: Insights from Costa Rica
• Emma Nielsen: How the Contemporary Media in Madrid Reports on Domestic Violence against Women
• Michael Ninen: Understanding Approaches to Transforming Hyper Masculinity in Guatemala with the Non-Governmental Organization Nuevos Horizontes
• Andrew Orita: Plucked from History: The Removal of the Japanese Flag, Anthem, and Imperial System from its Wartime Context
• Natalie Ramos: National identity and the right to exist: a case study of “La Sentencia” in the context of Dominican-Haitian relations
• Julia Schwab: Social Media and Activism in the 2019/2020 Chilean Social Uprisings
• Daniella Thomas: Understanding Correlations of Identity and Protest in the Context of the 2019 Chilean Protests
• INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION: 2:30-4 pm via Zoom

Political Science

• Jillian Andreottola: Intentional Voter Suppression and the Removal of Political Agency from Historically Marginalized Groups
• Sophia Annest: Advancing Reproductive Rights in Latin America
• Molly Brown: The Challenge of Being Creative in a Capitalist Framework
• Aidan Courtney: The Philosophy behind Russia's Foreign Policy
• Siena Cross: The Role of Political Parties in the Emergence of New Nationalism: Poland and the Law and Justice Party
• Kelly Curtis: Ignoring Identity: Abstinence Based Sex Education and Queer Youth
• James Donaldson: The Rise of China
• POLITICAL SCIENCE ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION: 2:30-4 pm via Zoom

Public Affairs, History, Religion, & Culture

• Myron Joel Bañez: Urban Bayanihan: The Role of Ethnic Enclaves In The Filipino Diaspora
• Megan Grosse: Colombian Banana Workers and the Fruits of their Labor: The 1928 “Banana Massacre”
• Peter Hoang: Frankenstein: When Knowledge and Discovery are Taken Too Far
• Ricki Lieu: Food and Identity Formation in Asian Young Adults
• Cara Nguyen: Love Letters to Chinatown
• Junsen Ohno: USAID Should Allocate More Funds to Educate South Sudanese Girls and Women
• Jaidev Vella: Exploring Ecocentrism in Polytheistic Religions

• Olivia DiGiorno: We Are the Body of Christ: A Revitalized Theology of the Laity for the Catholic Church in the United States
• Megan Oakes: Queer Marriage in an Anti-Queer System: Is a Queer Theology of Marriage Possible? Page
• THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION: 3:30-4:30 pm via Zoom