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
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