Josue
Toribio Madrigal
Sponsor: Dulce Westberg, Ph.D. Psychology Young adults increasingly engage with politics through social media, which has become a central space for political discourse, identity expression, and meaning-making (Hammack, 2011). Narrative identity research suggests that sociopolitical contexts play a key role in how individuals interpret experiences related to race, gender, and national belonging, but social media remains understudied as a meaning-making space. In the present study, we analyzed written narratives about the 2024 presidential election from 430 young adults in college. Preliminary analyses indicate that social media was mentioned in a majority of political narratives. In planned analyses, we will code narratives for the presence of social media, depth of meaning-making, and whether meaning-making occurs at the individual, relational, or structural levels using established coding systems. We will determine whether narratives with mention of social media also contain higher meaning-making of race/ethnicity and gender relative to those with no mention of social media. We will also assess whether meaning-making varies across the individual, relational, and structural levels of reasoning. These findings can illuminate how social media functions as a central context in shaping understandings of political experiences. Discussion will center on the role of digital environments in shaping broader processes of identity. The Past in Practice: Interpreting the Ancient World
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This exhibition presents final projects from three courses in the Classics Program: Death and Dying in the Ancient World (CLA104), Introduction to Neo-Assyrian Art (CLA175), and Fakes and Forgeries: The Art of Replication (CLA101D). Instead of completing a traditional final exam, students developed original projects grounded in sustained research, bringing ancient material culture into dialogue with contemporary questions and personal perspectives. Working across a range of media, students investigated how objects, images, and texts from antiquity can be interpreted, reconstructed, and reimagined through creative practice. Their work reflects careful engagement with archaeological evidence, historical scholarship, and ancient artistic conventions while also exploring how the meanings of ancient forms shift when placed in new contexts. Together, these projects demonstrate how the study of the ancient world can be both analytical and creative. By combining research with artistic production, students engage in antiquity not as a distant or static past but as a body of material and ideas that continue to shape modern identity, memory, and cultural expression. The exhibition invites viewers to reconsider how ancient forms remain meaningful in the present. Identifying Retinal Ganglion Cells in the Apple Snail Pomacea canaliculata Stephanie Toy
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