2024: Undergraduates Recognized
- Tara Slater
- Jennifer Congel
On April 30, 2024, the Maxwell School celebrated the achievements of undergraduate scholarship in the social sciences in the eleventh annual Maxwell Celebration of Undergraduate Scholarship. Our celebration consisted of individual events hosted by each department as well as a multi-disciplinary poster session featuring research undertaken by undergraduate students during the current academic year.
The following awards were presented during the celebration:
MAX 123/132 Exemplary Student Paper Award, selected by MAX course faculty.
MAX 123 – Conor Murphy (co-winner)
MAX 123 – Anselm Neville-Rhody (co-winner)
MAX 132 – Max Reed Boucher (co-winner)
MAX 132 – Xander Mass (co-winner)
Outstanding Student Research Paper, selected by a Maxwell faculty committee:
Anna Terzaghi for her paper titled “Myth, Memorial, and the Making of a Nation: The ANZAC Legend in Australian Culture”
Honorable Mention Research Paper, selected by a Maxwell faculty committee:
Christian Bevilacqua for his paper titled “Spaceship in the Secondary Classroom: Environmental Sustainability Education Bargaining in the GCC"
Best Poster Award, selected by a committee of Maxwell graduate students:
Ava Lubkemann for her poster “The Importance Carbon Capture Sequestration, Utilization, and Storage in the United States Agricultural Industry”
Research Poster Honorable Mention, selected by a committee of Maxwell graduate students:
Roman Saladino for his poster “Voter Trust in the Era of AI: The Impact of Learning of AI Use in Political Advertising on Voter Trust”
Viewer's Choice Poster Awards, selected by viewer voting during the poster session:
Kaitlyn Marcotrigiano, “Combating Burnout for optimal patient and provider experience through humanitarian-based Approaches”
Faculty Advisor of the Year:
Shannon Novak, Professor, Anthropology
Congratulations to all the students who participated. Thank you to Ben and Marcia Baldanza for endowing these awards and thank you to all the faculty and staff who supported the students.