Volume 2020
GREAT Day & The Proceedings of GREAT Day
In 2020, GREAT Day, like most academic events, could not happen on Geneseo’s campus due to the novel coronavirus and ensuing pandemic. Nevertheless, the undergraduate symposium was successfully held in an unprecedented virtual format. This volume of Proceedings of GREAT Day is a representation of the diversity of scholarship presented at GREAT Day, from disciplines ranging from education, sociology, and math, to astronomy, history, and dance. It reflects the challenges of 2020 with articles addressing the novel coronavirus strain, propaganda, policing, and populism, and the resilience and wonder of GREAT Day presenters. Other research reflects a growing dependence on technology in advancing astronomy and mathematical research, as well as in secondary education classrooms. This volume also includes research on oppression and self-preservation, with articles addressing evolutionary behaviors, a critique of capitalism, water in South Africa, domestic violence, and French cultural identity. In addition to these articles, this issue contains interviews with College faculty and students heavily involved with GREAT Day. In all its content, this volume of The Proceedings of GREAT Day is reflective of the world around us, as it challenges us to consider new perspectives on a variety of topics that affect a diverse population.Articles
An Interview with Paige Closser
Jaime DeVita
There’s More Than One Way to Skin a Hominin: An Analysis of Plio-Pleistocene East and South African Hominins as Prey
Carrie A. Daignault
South African Water History
Elisabeth Bablin
Taking Flight Reflection
Cooper Breed
An Interview with Paul Schacht
Ethan Owens
Technology in Teaching Mathematics: Desmos
Cristina Gulli
An Interview with Steve Derné
Ethan Owens
An Epistemological Account of the Logic of Propaganda
Michael Badalamenti
Attitudes Toward Anglicisms in Montpellier, France: A Study on Linguistic Purism and Americanization
Brianna Riggio
Aspiration and Implementation: County-Level Domestic Violence Programs in a Human Rights Context
Madeline Reilly
Development of a Time of Flight Spectrometer for Rutherford Backscattering Studies with keV ions
Ethan Smith
Far-Right Populists in Western States of the European Union: Who They Are and What They Want
Michael Badalamenti
An Interview with Nicole Callahan
Jaime DeVita
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Editors
- Editors
- Jaime DeVita, Class of 2021
- Ethan Owens, Class of 2022
- Supervisor
- Jonathan Grunert, Scholarly Communications Librarian, Milne Library
- Production Manager
- Allison Brown, Digital Publishing Services Manager, Milne Library