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2025 Undergraduate Research Symposium

Posted by Katrina Maggiulli on April 17, 2025

Come visit all the fantastic CCS students at the 2025 Undergraduate Research Symposium! The event is on Friday, April 25th at the High Country Conference Center. This year we have 14 students presenting in poster sessions and 1 student in the oral presentations!! The full schedule of presentations and their locations are below. Don’t miss the chance to learn about the amazing research of CCS undergrads at the Symposium this year!

Presentations:

  • Gracie Price (Advisor:  Dr. Jason BeDuhn): “Soteriology & Christhood Endowed in the ‘Gospel of Truth'”; In the Kendrick room, 12:50-1:10 PM

Posters:

Session 1: 8:30-10am

  • Michelle Tang (Advisor: Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulacsi): “MIND, MACHINE, CANVAS:  Technology Driven Painting Reflecting Intersections of Insomnia between Humans and Machine in Contemporary Chinese Art”; Location: 48
  • Alex Williams (Advisor: Dr. Katrina Maggiulli): “A Product of Place: Arts & Crafts Architecture on the Colorado Plateau”; Location: 39

Session 2: 10:30am-12:00pm

  • Bear Bennion (Advisor: Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulacsi): “Reidentifying a Curious Bronze Statue from Han Dynasty China”; Location: 46
  • Kailey Cooper (Advisor: Dr. Diana Coleman): “Mapping Religious and Spiritual Communities in Flagstaff and Bringing it into the Classroom”; Location: 39
  • Chenyue Deng (Advisor: Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulacsi): “Mid-20th Century Innovation of Chinese Art: Xu Beihong (1895-1953) and His Eastern-Western Perspectives”; Location: 45
  • Henry Magill (Advisor: Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulacsi): “EARLY EXPEDITIONARY PHOTOGRAPHY: The Building of the Lo Archive of the Dunhuang Caves”; Location: 47
  • Grace Roberts (Advisor: Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulacsi): “Recovering the Iconographic Context of an Early Chinese Buddhist Statue (8th – 13th centuries CE)”; Location: 45
  • Rogelio Apodaca Zenil, Helen Louise Smith, & Alexandria Amari Ponce (Advisors: Björn Krondorfer & Pedro Gonzalez Corona): “Power of Blood: Mexico’s Casta Painting Exhibition”; Location: 44

Session 3: 12:30-2:00pm

  • Laura Barclay (Advisor: Dr. Becky Pratt-Sturges): “Through the Lens: Repeat Photography of the Southwest”; Location: 34
  • Ronit Patel and Miles McCoy (Advisor: Dr. Gioia Woods): “1966’s Star Trek and American Counterculture”; Location 24

Session 4: 2:30-4:00pm

  • Shaelyn Fett (Advisor: Dr. Becky Pratt-Sturges): “The Divided City of Walls and Bridges: Mapping Identity in Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland”; Location: 12

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