At this year’s Undergraduate Research , Creativity, and Innovation Festival, we had six students from the department present their research, and they won three awards:
- Elizabeth Bryant (Sociology minor),“Recent Trends in Confidence in Medicine from the General Social Survey,”
Award: Outstanding poster presentation in the social science and
“What Would It Take for the United States to Adopt the French Healthcare System? A Social Theory Perspective” - Amelia Little (Sociology major), “Winners Rule, Losers Wear a Dress: Fantasy Football and White Masculinity”
- Gracyn McGathy (Sociology major),“The Mark of the “Slut”: Iranian Women & Tattoos as Political Protest,”
Award: Outstanding oral presentation in the social sciences - Caroline McKnight (Communication major), “Contradictory Responses and Late Apologies: Analyzing Facebook’s Privacy Crisis Response with Situational Crisis Communication Theory”
- Hansen Penya (Sociology major), “HEARD IT HERE: Gangs, Poverty, & the Black Experience”
- Abigayle Taylor (Communication major), “No Laughing Matter: Crisis at the Ellen Show,”
Award: Top oral presentation in arts and humanities

ACU Undergraduate Research, Creativity, and Innovation Festival presenters and mentors

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