Keystone on Tap 2023

Grace Adebogun
On the Edge of Assembly: An Analysis of the 24-Hour News Cycle and its Impact on the Inception of Police Violence-Related Protests.
A quantitative and qualitative assessment of media responses to cases of police violence, aimed at determining how news media outlets shape perceptions and how this relates to the emergence of protests.

Danielle E. Everett
Defining a Barrier in Neuroscience: Spatial Navigation
An interdisciplinary genealogy and analysis of how a barrier is defined as it relates to our brain’s cognitive map and spatial navigation.

Dante Gonzalez (He/They)
The Language of Intimacy: The Role of Desexualized Language in Intimacy Choreography
Interviews with intimacy directors and performers about their use of desexualized language when choreographing intimacy for the stage and screen.

Beck Mutka
Visualizing Connections Between Watershed Health and Neighborhood Wealth
A spatial analysis of the relationships between comprehensive watershed health and local income along the East Coast, with a focus on watersheds that have a more direct impact on the Atlantic Ocean.

Man Viet Nguyen, with Mark Tran and Noah Rieber
ViUSFSS – Vietnamese in US Food Security Survey
A project exploring culture and language as the keys to achieve health equity in the US, starting with the basic right to food and how it is experienced within my Vietnamese community amid challenging language barriers.

Alexa Quintero
TUBIEto-Go: improving enteral feeding pumps for the modern young adult
Development of a new and improved enteral feeding pump, a clinical device serving a captive market that rarely sees innovation; through this project, the “tubie” community will finally have a pump that empowers them to pursue their dreams beyond the hospital.

Madeline Riddick-Seals
A Quilted Culture: Black American Cultural Preservation Through the Arts
A project developing an artistic practice that continues cultural traditions within Black American art making. Through researching contemporary Black American artists and collecting my own family’s oral histories, I explore the relationship between cultural preservation and the arts.

Jacob Rose
Mental Health Resources in Business Consulting
Interviewing and surveying business consultants and mental health professionals to explore the availability and efficacy of mental health resources in the industry.

Leightta Sherrill
Student Perspectives on Sex Education
An analysis of the different types of sex education that students receive and how successfully their respective programs prepare them to have healthy sexual relationships.

Alex Shores
Heartbeat by Heartbeat: A Short Film on Heart Conditions and Lack of Access to Healthcare
Writing and directing a narrative short film about a single father who loses his job and struggles to pay for his daughter’s heart surgery – a fictional yet realistic exploration of how U.S. healthcare conditions challenge families both financially and emotionally.

Phillip Tran
Marine Biology Data Management
A data processing and databasing tool for field researchers to categorize, search, and analyze millions of photos, videos, and datapoints entirely on-device.

Uni Valdivieso Wooldridge
Cocina Latine: Sociocultural oral history on diaspora recipes
This oral history is a creative analysis that digs into the Latine experience in Boston through the context of food and recipes.

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