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A Celebration of Historic Female Agency, Caitlin Nuckolls

Actin Filament Binding in Plant Protein Villin-4, Jake Heins

A (mostly) Comprehensive Timeline of Banking in the U.S., Jaden Holt

Analysis of PM10 Levels in Silao, Mexico, Rachael Goodwin

Analyzing Minerals in Lava Flows as an Indicator for Magmatic Architecture Beneath Koma-Kulshan (Mt. Baker), Holly Valgardson

Analyzing the impact of wildfires and light-absorbing aerosol deposition in the Arctic, Sally Vaux

Analyzing the Position and Distribution of Centriolar Satellites, Elizabeth Cameron

Ancients and Moderns and the Public Use of Learning, Rob Hardy

An Experimental Approach to Solving the Aperture Problem with EEG Scans of the V5 and Power Analysis, Kathryn L. Rigberg

“An Incongruous Monster”: Idolatrous Aesthetics in Crusoe’s China, Swetha Regunathan

APOGEE Net: An expanded spectral model of both low mass and high mass stars, Dani Sprague

A recent snapshot of Koma Kulshan's (Mt. Baker's) magma storage system, Brendan Garvey

A Retrospective Look at Covid-19 Testing Performance, Mayla Ward

Assessing Paper Texture Similarity in Matisse Lithographs Using a Triplet Neural Network, Karen Aguilar

Becoming Creatured, Emily Freudenberger

Between the Colors and the Numbers, Allison Buckley

Binding Specificity of Chimeric SH2 Domains, Kevin Alexander Estrada Alamo

Bitter Roots, Caitlin (Caity) Scott

Bones Here, Bones There, Bones Everywhere: Bioarchaeology and Osteology in Action, Julia Epps

Border Legibility with Computer Vision, Trevor Ortega

BPRI Research Assistant, August Kaster

Business Plan for Buety's Floor Cleaning, Chris Buetow

Can (Role-) Playing the French Revolution En Français Also Teach the Eighteenth Century?, Peggy Schaller

Can Visualization Ability Augment Benefits Received from Meditation?, Chrystal Dragonflame

Cell specific ERAD rescue is C. elegans, Heino Hulsey-Vincent

Centering Community Values in Marine Planning, Fiona Beaty

Characteristics and Extent of the North Olympic Fault Zone, Clallam County, Washington, Jenna Chaffeur

Characterization of the migratory distribution, connectivity, philopatry and timing of the western North American Harlequin Duck (Histrionicus histrionicus) population, Andrew Annanie

Characterizing Ciliogenesis in a Stable Cell Line Expressing a Cilia Calcium Sensor, Haven Johansen

Chemical Crosslinking of Factor VIII C Domains Effect on Membrane Binding, Nathan Avery

Classifying TESS Star Data using Neural Networks with Attention Mechanisms, Sally Bass

Climate Change in the Salish Sea, Aquila Flower, Xi Wang, Natalie Furness, and Emily Laura Bradford

Coming Home: How the Nez Perce Tribe Regained Their Cultural Heritage, Trevor James Bond

Computational modeling of opioid-induced respiratory depression, Grant Chou

Computers and Proteins: Using Molecular Dynamics to probe the Catalytic Mechanisms of Streptococcus Pyogenes and Listeria Monocytogenes Class A Sortases, Brandon Vogel

Connections between eruption style and magmatic reservoir evolution: Insights from Augustine Volcano, Alaska, USA, Mahinaokalani Robbins

Covalent Modification as Targets and Means for Research in Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, Derek McCaffery

Cowardice: A one-act play about our modern relationship with war, the draft, and each other, Layne Fry

Cycling of ethanol and acetaldehyde in coastal waters, Jefferson Crosland

Dacite origins during a compositional shift in eruptive products at Middle Sister volcano, Oregon Cascades, Olivia C. Ernst

Daniel Defoe and the Scottish Church, Holly Faith Nelson and Sharon Alker

Daniel Defoe, Bailiffs, and Westminster 1694–1706, Sheldon Rogers

Daniel Defoe, William Hone, and The Right Divine of Kings to Govern Wrong!: A New Electronic Edition, Kyle Grimes

Deep Learning Applications for Huntington's Disease, Caitlin Bannister

Defining the Frontier: the Battle of Ain Jalut and Fifty Years of Mamluk-Mongol Clashes, Kenneth Meyer

Defoe and "the Footprints of Man", Stephen Bertman

Density functional theory analysis of halide double perovskite superstructures for solar energy conversion, Jill Addington

Depletion Force Purification and Silver Overgrowth on Gold Nano-Bipyramids, Griffin Cooper

Designing subject-responsive decision support tools for print collection review, Sidonie Devarenne and Mary Wegmann

Determining sex of Steller and California sea lions utilizing qPCR analysis of scat, Madison Gard

Developing computational models assessing the effect of temperature on abrasion in particle-based concentrated solar power plants, Zoe Hemez

Developing the Geoscience Identity Framework and Survey Tool, Willa Rowan

Diatom-derived ecological facilitation in Salish Sea plankton communities: A species-specific study, Alyssa Tsukada

Diatom-derived polyunsaturated aldehydes’ effects on the fitness of embryonic and larval surf smelt (Hypomesus pretiosus), Joy Cobb

Diet Preferences of Fish in the Olympic Peninsula, Cherise Russo

Digital Privacy Detective, Samantha Murray Tuesta

Distal Locating Pin System, Joshua Danzik

Do parasites track the local environmental adaptation of their hosts?, Amanda Jackson

Effect of partial atomic charges on molecular adsorption to a substrate using Molecular Mechanics, Dylan Henry

Effects of Anthropogenic Noise on Haul-out Numbers of Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina), Kyra Bankhead

Electron Mobility Analysis of Acene-Substituted Covalent Organic Frameworks, Tanner Leo

Emotion and the Body in Twi, Sylvia Cohen

Employing Metal Pyridinediimine Complexes for the Reduction of Prevalent Pollutants, Allison Teigen

Enchantment of the synthetic control over gold silver layered nano cubes and their functionalization as plasmonic sensing tools., Nicolas Hall

Enhancing Student Experience and Promoting Equity and Accessibility by Effectively Transferring Key Knowledge and Information to Mathematics, Statistics, and Related Majors Through the RAW Stats Club, Dylan Way

Entailment in Asante Twi: A Semantic Analysis of Cooking-related Verbs, Lukas Civan

EVANGELINE: AN INQUIRY INTO CULTURAL CONCIOUSNESS AND STORYTELLING, Karissa Wedman

Examining Masculinity 'The Lasso Way', Rylee Tuttle

Expanding on sortase characterization: B4-B5 loop swap chimera and Class B enzymatic activity, Hanna Kodama

Exploring Alternatives for Nonparametric Tests with Ties, Alexander Hutchinson

Falwell and Begin: Shifting Theopolitical Tides, Chris Gilbert

Finding genes with cis-acting mutations in S. cerevisiae, Tara Wirsching

Finding Zeros with Domain Coloring and Winding Numbers, Garrett Dubofsky

First Detection of Polyunsaturated Aldehydes Produced by Benthic Diatoms in the Salish Sea, Jeremy Johnson

Food and Mutualistic Exchange, Alexander D. Miller

Formation of Janus Nanoparticles and Liquid Crystal Interactions, Teagan Hamlett

For the Birds: An Exploration of the Corvid as a Reflection of the Anthropocene, Gwendolyn Pane

Gray Areas: Levels Within Philosophy, Cassandra Roberto

"He Who Holds Alaska Holds The World": Competing International Claims to the Alaskan Territory and North Pacific (1820-1945), Kyley James Canion Brewer

How we Talk About Nature Matters; Invasive Species Rhetoric and it's Harmful Social Connotations, Olivia Taylor-Manning

Imaginary Voyages in Serious Reflections and A Vision of the Angelick World, Maximillian Novak

Implementing a Mass-Loss Model for Cool Stars in python, Zoe Bozich

Improved Functionality of Copper Indium Disulfide Quantum Dots via -OH capped Ligand Exchange, Julia Schexnayder

Improving Emergency Response Outreach, Jennifer Gonzalez

Improving juvenile pinto abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana) outplanting success within the San Juan Archipelago in Washington State, Jaclyn Stapleton

Integration of Climate Change Adaptation into Planning: A Study of Washington state Coastal Communities Exposed to Sea Level Rise, Yashel Kakavand

Investigating Age-Related Loss of Chromatin Silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Aidan Corbin

Investigating Particle Composition and Aquatic Chemistry Impacts on Microplastic Aggregation Behavior Through the Use of Nanopolymer-Nanoparticle Composites, McKenna Haney

Investigating the Effects of Ferulic Acid on Learning and Expression of the Plasticity-Related Glutamate Receptor (GLR-1) with a C. elegans Alzheimer’s Model, Jessica Gauvin

Investigating the potential roles of CCCH zinc finger proteins CH1 and CH51, Morgan Beecroft

Investigations into Mercury’s mantle through the partial melting of Enstatite (EH) Chondrites, Richard M. Gwyn

"I Want to Hunt": Using Netflix's "Good Hunting" from the Series Love, Death, & Robots to Discuss Asian Female Representation in Film, Jade Hedeen

Káma Means Hello, Alexandra Knepp

Klipsun Magazine's "Now What" issue, Luisa Loi

Lake Whatcom Monitoring Project 2023/2024 Report, Angela Strecker, Joan Pickens, Carmen Archambault, Emily Flarry, and Robert Mitchell

Language Attitudes & Language Use: The Case of Joual in Quebec, Madison Peyton

Larval Communities at Hydrothermal Vents After the 2022 Hunga Eruption, Vanessa Jimenez

Learning to use virtual reality for marine science education, Isabel Yueh

Legacy Forest Ground Truthing in Whatcom County, Washington, Finley Bell

Literary and Commercial Exchanges in the Age of Defoe: Legacies of the “Fine Taste of Writing”, Laura Alexander

Local and distant polymorphisms acting on protein expression show gene-by-gene, and gene-by-environment interactions, Nadine Tietz

Love is a Many Splendored Thing, Sadie Fick

Mapping Mastcams Multispectral Rock and Soil Classes Along Gale Crater, Acacia Arielle

MASTCAM SPECTRAL DIVERSITY OF ROCKS THROUGH CURIOSITY’S EXPLORATION OF GLEN TORRIDON, Alivia Eng

Mastcam-Z multispectral database from the Perseverance rover’s traverse through the Jezero crater Margin unit (sols 0-1269), Melissa S. Rice, Alicia Vaughan, Bradley Garczynski, Jeffrey R. Johnson, Sabrina Curtis, Michael St. Clair, Chase C. Million, Alex Hayes, Kjartan B. Kinch, Ernest Cisneros, Kristen Paris, Laura Mehall, Max Gabbert, Kristiana Lapo, Adrian Broz, Samantha Theuer, Athanathios Klidaras, James Haber, Margaret Deahn, Bavani Kathir, Louise Duflot, Katelyn Frizzell, Alivia Eng, Briony N. Horgan, Stephan Devis, Megan Barrington, Eleni Ravanis, and James F. Bell III

Measuring properties of accretion streams from APOGEE spectra, Sabrina Corey

Metallic nanomaterial decorated silk films as flexible, biocompatible SERS substrates, Wynn Wee

Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Innate Immunity in Drosophila melanogaster, Susannah Bloom

Multi-Functional Polymer-Nanoparticle Composites for Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Applications, Sam Patrick

Mushroom Cultivation at The Outback Farm, Gabrielle Diamond

MySpace: A Space for BIPOC Students to Explore Ethnic Identity in Predominantly White Schools, Deja Svastisalee and Sabrina Batingan

MySpace: A Space for BIPOC Students to Explore Ethnic Identity in Predominantly White Schools, Deja Svastisalee and Sabrina Batingan

Nickel Phosphide Photothermal Catalyst Development for CO2-Derived Solar Fuels, Hannah Hennig

One Hundred, Hadley VanLandingham

On Reciting The True Born Englishman, John Richetti

Perceiving Time in Videogames and Virtual Space, Braden Timss

Perfecting the synthesis and characterization of monodisperse selenium nanoparticles., Dillan Carnahan

Photo-identification catalogs and their importance for marine ID confirmation of Pacific harbor seals (Phoca vitulina richardii), Merlot Bingham

Prescribing Dance : An ethnography of participants in a dance class for neurological disorders, Emily Petersen

Pretty Little Nihilists: The Aesthetic Politics of the Sad Girl, Anika Rozich

Proposed Tax Literacy Standards to be Included with Washington State Graduation Requirements, Isabelle Garten

Public Relations Campaign: Animals as Natural Therapy, Kate Yeoman

Quantitative Microscopy Reveals the Ciliary Mechanism of Strobilidium Jumping Behavior, Teagan Ridgway

Randomized Computational Search for Topological Unicorns, Mayla Ward

Reading the Gap: Interpreting Non-Representation through Literature, N. Lake Starr

Reimagining Refugee Resettlement: Collaboration, Endurance, and Temporality in the Displacement Assemblage, Elizabeth Baseman

Re-Imagining The Railroad Road Avenue Corridor, Vivien Coop

Reinforcing mindware or supporting cognitive reflection: Testing two strategies for addressing a persistent learning challenge in the context of air resistance, Beth A. Lindsey, Andrew Boudreaux, Drew J. Rosen, MacKenzie R. Stetzer, and Mila Kryjevskaia

Review of Children’s Literature, Popular Culture, and “Robinson Crusoe,” by Andrew O’Malley, Jackie C. Horne

Review of Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox, and the Creation of a Myth, by Katherine Frank, Manuel Schonhorn

Review of Daniel Defoe: The Novels, by Nicholas Marsh, Aino Mäkikalli

Review of Defoe and the Whig Novel: A Reading of the Major Fiction, Rachel K. Carnell

Review of Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel, by Srinivas Aravamudan, Nicole Horejsi

Review of Historical Literatures: Writing about the Past in England, 1660– 1740, by Noelle Gallagher, Rebecca Bullard

Review of “Matters of Blood”: Defoe and the Cultures of Violence, by Oliver Lindner, Christopher F. Loar

Review of Positioning Defoe’s Non-Fiction: Form, Function, Genre, edited by Aino Mäkikalli and Andreas K. E. Mueller, Jess Edwards

Review of Reading Gossip in Early Eighteenth-Century England, by Nicola Parsons, Nicholas Seager

Review of Robinson Crusoe’s Economic Man: A Construction and Deconstruction, edited by Ulla Grapard and Gillian Hewitson, Dwight Codr

Review of The Female Crusoe: Hybridity, Trade and the Eighteenth-Century Individual, by C. M. Owen, Robert Clark

Review of The Fortress of American Solitude: Robinson Crusoe and Antebellum Culture, by Shawn Thomson, Katie McGettigan

Selective Hydrogenation Using Nickel Phosphides, Alex Bullock

Sex-specific diet of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) in the Salish Sea, Holland Conwell

Shelling dodecanethiol ligand quantum dots with silica to stabilize in water-based reactions, Ariel Hall

“She Never Had Been a Bride in Her Life”: The Marriage of Roxana and Amy, Sarah Rasher

Simulating Multi-Agent Collaboration in a Classroom Environment, Andrew Evans

Solid Lipid Nanoparticles by sonicated”Phase Inversion Temperature” method – featuring alkenones, Charles Garzon

Space Ethics, Margaret Baumgartner

Spectral variability in naturally weathered rock surfaces and implications for Mars, Sabrina Curtis

Spotless Minds and Cultural Memory: Teaching Future Teachers in the United States, Hilary Teynor Donatini

StarCraft AI: Viking Bot, David Kipnis

Student ownership and understanding of multi-week final projects, Ira Che Lassen

Studies Towards Rupestines L and M, Abigail Andersen

Swallows and Hounds: Defoe's Thinking Animals, Stephen H. Gregg

Synthesis and characterization of PLGA capped gold nanoparticles for use in cancer therapeutics, Tara Chin

Synthesis and characterization of PLGA capped gold nanoparticles for use in cancer therapeutics, Tara Chin

Synthesis and Characterization of SERS-active silica-coated Au/Ag core/shell nanocubes, Bailey Klinger

Synthesis and Characterization of Silver Nanocubes, Joseph Almanza

Synthesis and Characterization of Silver Nanocubes, Meghan Burke

Synthesis and Characterization of Silver Nanocubes, Anika Guo

Synthesis of (+)-cananodine, Haley Holliday

Synthesis of CuAlS2/ZnS Quantum Dots for Photocatalysis, Catherine Bodinger

Synthesis of Reducible Oxide-Supported Nickel Phosphide Catalysts, Jake Schare

T3 Watershed Experiment’s riparian study, Emma Royce

The 2018 Woolsey Fire: San Fernando Valley Impact Report and Lessons in Future Resilience, Aidan O. Jones

The Business of Research, Lydia Tibbott

The Classroom as Salon: A Collaborative Project on Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Susan Alteri

The Distribution of the Copular Verb in Asante Twi, Navor Tercero

The effect of Targeted Acoustic Startle Technology on the foraging success of individual harbor seals, Kate Clayton

The effect of wildfire ash on the population numbers and physiology of a snow algae community from the North Cascades, Sophie Paradis

The effects of fluctuating temperature and pH on the shell and radula morphology of the pinto abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana), Elizabeth Diehl

The Effects of Mitochondrial DNA Depletion on Mitochondrial and Immune Function in Aging, Angshita Dutta

The Ethics of Reporting on Transgender Issues, Sol Vandeman

The Great Escape, Tristan Parzuchowski

The Heart of the Matter: Unveiling Whether Communication Styles, Personality Traits, and Attachment Styles Shape Romantic Relationship Satisfaction, Blake Walters

The Heritability, Developmental Determination, and Evolutionary Significance of Mandible Length in the Zebrafish (Danio rerio) and other Danionine Fishes, Danielle Ringo

The impacts of PCB exposure on skeletal development, survivorship, and feeding ability in zebrafish, Abi Lee

The Intervention Worked, But Did It Help? An Examination of the Pros and Cons of Applied Behavior Analysis for Autism Spectrum Disorder, Sydnee Bossen

The life cycle of a master’s thesis: Assessing the impacts of projected climate warming on stream temperatures in the Stillaguamish River, Emily Smoot

The Life of Maud Miner Biglow, Isabella Accetturo

The Lingering Impact of COVID-19 on Grief and Bereavement, Practices Among College Students in the Pacific Northwest, Kiersten Shjerven

The Political Economy of the Climate Pledge Arena, Na'Kita Zylstra

The Politics of Choice: Key Predictors of Abortion Attitudes, 1972-2020, Bella Wiseman

The Power of Spaces: Creating Spaces that Empower Learning, Chloe Boland

The Puppet Show Conundrum: Haywood and the “Fittest Entertainment for the Present Age”, Johathan Sadow

The Reduction of pervasive pollutants utilizing iron pyridinediimine complexes., April Trausch

The Rescue Potential of Cannabidiol and β-Caryophyllene Against the Molecular Changes Induced by Early Life Stress in Mice, Taylor M. McGillis

“There’s some whores in this house:” Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP” as an anthem of Black female empowerment, Emma Wansley

The Rise of Homelessness in Canada, Evarosa Perry

Thermodynamic, Kinetic, and Mechanistic Studies of the Thermal Guanidine Metathesis Reaction, Venecia Ramirez

The Social Negotiation of Confusion for Physics Learning, Victoria Pollock

"The Soldier, the Woman, and the Fence" - Animated Short Story, Juliana McKeehan

The T.I.N.A. Timeline: This Is Not Accessible, Isabel X. Hyde

Tide Pooling for Klipsun, Linnea Hoover

Timescale Disentanglement, Joshua Kovac

To Be In or To Be On: Adposition Variation in Twi, Meghan Lopez

To Find a Dragon, Sarah Feltman

Toxicity of Tire Tread Leachate on Mysid Shrimp Over a Series of Leach Times, Brook Ashcraft

Toxins in Coastal Waters: Will Surf Smelt and Other Forage Fish Survive?, Joy Cobb

Transing History: Examining the Use of Androgynos in Ancient and Modern Jewish Texts, Kaye Kulp

“Two broad shining eyes”: Optic Impressions and Landscape in Robinson Crusoe, Emmanuelle Peraldo

United States of RoN, Rachel Youngberg

Using Chemical Zoning in Plagioclase to Understand Changes in Eruption Behavior at Augustine Volcano, Alaska, Sloane Kennedy

Using crystals in lava flows to understand the pre-eruptive processes at the Three Sisters Volcanoes, Central Oregon, Sean Halstead

Using videos to teach K-12 CS pre-service teachers, Erick Mora Olmedo

Verb Movement: Evidence from Verb Subject Object Languages, Emma Wheaton

Virtual Worlds as a Platform for Remote Collaboration, Griffin Hartz

Visualizing the Passage of Time with Video Temporal Pyramids, Sophie Pallanck

Wait, You Can Recycle Carbon Fiber Composites?! Subtitle: A study in the chemical recycling of cured composites and manufacturing processes for reclaimed carbon fiber., Juliana Covarrubias

Waste to Products Research Team, Emmaline Lenz

Weaving Fragmented Lands Together: Designing a Durable and Effective National Framework for Landscape Conservation, Jaimie Baxter

Weaving Fragmented Lands Together: Designing a Durable and Effective National Framework for Landscape Conservation, Jaimie Baxter

Western Washington University Students’ Experiences of Intimacy and Relationships During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Avia Breiter

Whatcom READS campaign for Public Relations class, Adriannah Roman

WHAT IS POLITICAL SCIENCE? What a Disciplinary Archipelago Says about Political Scholarship and Academia as a Whole, Warren Burroughs

What was wildfire activity like in Bellingham 56 million years ago?, Allie Thompson