May 2, 2025
Reception & Presentations 2pm to 5pm
Cal Poly Humboldt Library
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Instilling Text and Subtext
Isabella Ceja
Theatre Arts and Communication
Undergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Costume designs by Isabella “Izzy” Ceja for the dance piece choreographed by Lisa Drew: Instilling text and Subtext. The dance was inspired by media bias and the distorted reality it creates, as well as the media propaganda that had occurred during WWII.
"The All-American Boy": Ted Bendy as an Example of White Privilege and Toxic Masculinity
Grace McKendry
Anthropology
Undergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Ted Bundy is one of the United States’ most infamous serial killers. He has been described as being charismatic and intelligent, despite the fact that he murdered dozens of women in the 1970s. Ted Bundy’s motivation for killing, and reactions to him, may reveal some potentially problematic aspects about what mainstream society in the United States values. A trend that made itself apparent was the idea of Ted Bundy being a charming and intelligent person being a myth created by Bundy himself. This myth was made popular by other writers and journalists over the last 30 years.
Mindfulness in Higher Education: How the Brain Booth is Fostering Academic Excellence
Justina Madrigal
HSU Library
Undergraduate Student
Amelia Towse
HSU Library
Undergraduate Student
Library
The Brain Booth initiative is an innovative project promoting mindfulness and contemplative pedagogy as a means of introducing metacognition for academic success. The Brain Booth is an informal, experiential space to learn about the mind body connection, reduce stress, and optimize learning. It is open to all HSU students, staff, and faculty as well as community members. In the last academic year, 1,000+ students took a brain break in the Brain Booth, and
the Brain Booth was embedded across the colleges curricula in 5 departments and 8 courses.
"Fake Feminism" - A Rhetorical Critique
Maya Habis
CRGS
Undergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
By utilizing a critical Feminist approach, I will illustrate how Visa's commercial series "Money Is Changing," attempts to portray Visa as a Feminist company, but ironically reinforces the very same ideologies, stereotypes, and norms that ground gender inequality.
Stop Daming Native Lands
Boston Jones
Criminology
Undergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
The effects on local Native Tribes from the construction of thw Shasta Dam.
Water conservation
Evelyn Murphy
Recreation Administration
Undergraduate Student
College of Professional Studies
My project is about water conservation based off of Project WET curriculum. I worked with the students in REC 345: Environmental Education to put together 8 activities. The students presents their activities on zoom. It’s a 2 day event. 4 groups present on the first day then the other 4 present in the second day.
Black Lives Matter: The Digital Mobilization of Citizen Journalists
Julie Navarro
Journalism and Mass Communication
Undergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Osprey magazine reporter and photographer Julie Navarro won the prestigious Society of Professional Journalists Feature Photography award for her story, “Black Lives Matter: The digital mobilization of citizen journalists.” Navarro is a critical race and gender studies major and this was her first time working on student journalism Osprey magazine. “I really wanted to share something that would be meaningful for all to see,” Navarro said. “It means a lot to me being part of documenting history.”
The Alien Movie Project: studying the narrative, affective, and production politics of alien cinema via podcast
Dr. Aaron Donaldson
Communication
Faculty
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
The Alien Movie Project is a 91-part podcast series about alienhood rhetoric in cinema. Dr. Donaldson will overview and summarize podcasting as a form of education as well as the lessons learned from critically interrogating nearly 100 alien movies from throughout history and across the globe.
The Effect of Salinity on the Concentration of Various Trace Metals in The Little River Estuary
Shelby C Bishop
Oceanography and Chemistry
Undergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
Trace metals are crucial to many biological processes in marine environments. In estuaries linear relationships between salinity and concentration indicate that mixing is the main determinant of concentration, while exponential relationships indicate active removal. In this study it was expected that scandium would have an exponential relationship with salinity due to its similar ionic size to iron, however, Sc displayed a linear relationship while elements that were expected to be linear were exponential. To the author’s knowledge, this data represents the first river and estuary measurements of Sc, Ce, Zr, and La, and the reasons for these surprising relationships are not fully known.
Influence of Urban Land Use on Avian Diversity in Eureka, CA
Emma
McGraw
Wildlife
Undergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
The objective of my research is to test if there is any correlation between avian diversity and preserved green areas in Eureka, CA. Additionally, how does the vegetation composition of these parks compare to the avian diversity. I visited a total of 30 sites including 15 urban parks or green areas, and 15 urban sites paired with each of the green sites, to see how diversity compared in the surrounding urban habitat. Using avian abundance and species richness data I collected, I calculated the Shannon Diversity Index (H') of each site. Overall, I observed significantly higher avian diversity at green sites and found positive correlation between avian diversity and plant species richness.