MITINSPIRE2017Finalists

Category ProjectTitle StudentName(s) City StateAnthropology AnAnalysisofStudentRiskPerceptionofDrugs MariaMirasol PortWashington NewYork

Anthropology EmployingNovelConnectionandWeightingofNaturalLanguageParseTreestoAnalyzeUnfoldingofDarfurCrisis

NamanBarayaSrinidhiKrishnamurthy

Ashburn Virginia

Anthropology MainFactorsContributingtoCognitiveGrowthinPreschoolChildreninTanzaniaandIndia

JungWonPark Tarrytown NewYork

Anthropology Murder,Buses,andSeafood:ImprovingChineseIntegrationonSouthKorea’sJejuIsland

YoonPark Seogwipo-si NewYork

Anthropology FlintWaterCrisis:ImpactsonHuman-EnvironmentalInteractionsandReflectionsforFutureSolutions

JuliaShen BeverlyHills Michigan

Anthropology TheEffectsofMother-InfantInteractionsonInfants'TransitionfromCrawlingtoWalking

RyanFoo Bronx NewYork

Art&Architecture ProjectMercury:AnAccurateEdgeDetectionandCharacterRecognitionToolforAnalyzingAncientClassicalInscriptions

PrathikNaidu Sterling Virginia

Art&Architecture PerformingQueerItaly:ApplyAudreLorde'sWritingstoKYRAHMandJuliusKaiser's"IlGioielliere"

HyonjuAhn Irvine California

Art&Architecture VersatilityofthePointedHeaddressinHittiteCulticandPoliticalIconography HarryKwon OldTappan NewJersey

CulturalStudies TheRelationshipofParentEducationLevelwithParentingStylesonChildSelf-EsteeminNanjing,China

EstherLam Bronx NewYork

CulturalStudies AChallengingPride:TheMeritsofConstructivePatriotismin21stCenturyAmerica

KatyShenk Elizabethtown Pennsylvania

CulturalStudies Silenced:SpokenWordandHipHopasMeansofResistance ValerieZhang Northville Michigan

CulturalStudies MississippiK-12Education:CantheState'sBrightestResourceSolveItsDarkestProblem?

GreerUnderwood Jackson Mississippi

CulturalStudies TheHistoryofAsiansinAmerica,theResultingStereotypes,anditsModernExpressiontowardsAsian-AmericanWomeninPolitics

ElaineWei LaJolla California

CulturalStudies MarxistIdeologyandChristianDoctrine:ImplicationsforModernChina YueJiaZhang SanDiego California

CulturalStudies AssessingtheSocioeconomicFactorsBehindSuicideRatesinJapan MariaHearnAnthonyFasula

FortPierce Florida

CulturalStudies TheySwarmedWithCelestials:ChineseRailroadWorkersandtheModelMinorityMyth

SuzanKim Hackensack NewJersey

CulturalStudies AnExaminationoftheEffectsoftheIllicitDrugTradeinMedellín,andColombiaitself

RahulBabu BeverlyHills Michigan

CulturalStudies PassedAlongTheWay:PostmodernismandPostcolonialisminWongWarKai'sHongKong

MaxNobel Durham NorthCarolina

MITINSPIRE2017Finalists

Category ProjectTitle StudentName(s) City State

CulturalStudies ElBuenCamino:DropoutRates,ExplanatoryFrameworks,andCulturalSubversion

JayLee Paramus NewJersey

CMS MakingConnections:AStudyonHowtheDigitalAgeofFandomCultivatesCreativityandCulturalCognizance

ZongZhang Bellevue Washington

CMS FromFoucaulttoFacebook:Self-CensorshipintheAgeofSocialMedia AshleyKwon Troy NewYorkCMS HowChina’sConflictingIdeologicalandCommercialMotivesAffectHollywood AmyHuang BeverlyHills Michigan

CMS Theidentificationof"healthy"socialmediause:Astudyofaffluentsuburbanteens'useofFacebook,YouTube,andvideogames

SarahEhrlich Armonk NewYork

Economics AnOutlineofCountryBuilding:LearningfromEconomicMiraclestoIndustrializeUndevelopedCountries

RahulKaukuntla Wallingford Pennsylvania

Economics BusinessEducationandParentalSocializationasCorrelatesofAdolescentFinancialLiteracyandDecisionMaking

RheaDhingra Jericho NewYork

Economics MitigatingCongestionthroughMapDesign:ACaseStudyofWashingtonDCSubway

JohnXu Deerfield Massachusetts

Economics TaxationandBusinessActivityintheUnitedStates PranitNanda Reno Nevada

Economics Creationofanalgorithmthatusesnewsoutletdatatobetterpredictstockmarkettrends

SuchetTaoriShwetarkPatel

Alexandria Virginia

Economics ImpactofCarbonTaxPoliciesontheGlobalAgriculturalEconomy:AComputationalSpatialPartialEquilibriumModelingApproach

MaryZhu Nashua NewHampshire

Economics UsingArtificiallyIntelligentSwarmOptimizationforCarryTradeOptimizationtoGenerateReturns

PratikDanuRunikMehrotra

BloomfieldHills Michigan

Economics TheiRiskModelandtheRiskFitApp:TrackingDivergencesinRisk“App”etiteofTeensandInvestmentProfessionals

SidharthMuralidhar Alexandria Virginia

Economics HauteCouturePurchaseIntentions:HowChina’sEconomyisGoingFashionForward

MariaJamjoom Houston Texas

Economics ReductionsinpublicsectorhealthcarespendingandQALYgainedfrompre-ktargetedtohigh-riskchildren

ZoeBertol-Foell Bronx NewYork

History BuffaloSoldiersandRoughRiders:SeparateandUnequalTreatmentintheSpanishAmericanWar

AlexanderLi Plainsboro NewJersey

History PolarizingPolitics,JewishHistory,andScapegoating:TheEffectsoftheDreyfusAffair

EmaSchumer NewYork NewYork

History ExaminingtheMontrealProtocol'sEnvironmentalRecordAsAFrameworkfortheKigaliAmendment

MichaelCheng Ardmore Pennsylvania

History AlaskaOccupied:TheStoryoftheAleutianCampaign LukasKauth Cambridge MassachusettsHistory ThomasJeffersonandMeteorology AndrewLi GlenMills Pennsylvania

MITINSPIRE2017Finalists

Category ProjectTitle StudentName(s) City StateHistory ChineseRestaurantIndustry JuliePeng Sudbury Massachusetts

History The1944VicePresidentialNominationfortheDemocraticPartyoftheUnitedStatesanditsEffectsonKeyForeignPolicyIssues

TuhinChakraborty Troy Michigan

History KoreansLivinginJapan:Chongryon’sFightAgainstAssimilation LennaKanehara BloomfieldHills MichiganHistory MaoZedong'sSelfInflictedFamine,1958-1962 GraceLu Richmond VirginiaHistory RiseofDegeneracyinNaziPoliticalCulture:AnInevitableAttackonModernity SophiaCai Lawrenceville NewJersey

History ALeapofFaith:InseparableConnectionsbetweenPresidentialReligiousBeliefandAmericanForeignPolicyduringEarlyColdWar

YongHee(Kevin)Jung Windsor Connecticut

History TheTheoryofRevolution:ImpactofNationalisticvs.EthnocentricRevolutionaryRhetoricontheEthnicRelations...(con't)

JiaZhang Belmont Massachusetts

History AGameTheoreticAnalysisofAncientChineseMilitaryStrategiesonBattleoftheRedCliffs

AlexanderKung Wellesley Massachusetts

History TheCollapseoftheInternationalTradeOrganization:AnAnalysisandAutopsyoftheHavanaCharter

RyanLeung Lexington Massachusetts

Linguistics IsVowelInsertionforTurkishOnsetClusterRepairIntrusionorEpenthesis?AnAcousticStudy

MallikaPajjuri Dublin California

Linguistics Human-ComputerInteraction:TranslatingEnglishIntoCode SophiaBalkovski Irvine CaliforniaLinguistics ResearchingtheImplicitContentofSluicing MrunaliManjrekar SanJose CaliforniaLinguistics EmojisasaNovelMedicalLanguageInterface KarishmaMuthukumar Cerritos California

Linguistics FromBabblestoWords:HowGender,SocioeconomicStatusandSocialInteractionsFosterInfants'Language

JiwonYoon Demarest NewJersey

Linguistics AnAnalysisoftheReduplicationofEmojis JacobDunefsky Irvington NewYork

Literature LessonsinRe-Reading:ProcessesofRevision,Bodies,andSystemsinMaryShelley’sFrankensteinandHermanMelville’sMoby-Dick

GraceSewell Salem Oregon

Literature CrushingtheHourglass:TheNatureofTimeinNabokov's"Lolita"and"ANurseryTale"

ShannonSommers Brooklyn NewYork

Literature AlternatingSounds-PhonographiesofResistanceinPostbellumAmericanLiterature

JoshuaMassey Durham NorthCarolina

Literature RapandPoetry:AnalyzingRepetitionsinArtisticHistory VincentHao Austin TexasLiterature Satire,Religion,andScienceinVonnegut'sCat'sCradle EvaKitlen Niwot ColoradoLiterature TheInfinityofInterpretation:Barthes,Bellatin,andtheEssenceofHaiku JhiseungHahn Exeter NewHampshireMusicResearch MusicoftheFuture:CollageandtheIssueofMusicalProgress Daniel(Taeggin)Shin SanFrancisco CaliforniaMusicResearch AnalysisofBeethoven's"GrosseFuge" SamuelSussman Bedford NewYorkMusicResearch DecodingWinningOscarSongsUsingLogisticRegressionModel KaitlynnLi Plano Texas

MITINSPIRE2017Finalists

Category ProjectTitle StudentName(s) City State

MusicResearch TheEffectsofMotivationalMusicandIntensityonPerformance,PsychologicalandPsychophysicalResponses

SofiaGuarnieri SleepyHollow NewYork

MusicResearch MusictoMyEars:ThePositiveImpactsofanElSistemaInspiredCommunity-basedMusicProgramonChildren

MatthewMinsooSakaiAudreyChung

Weston Massachusetts

Philosophy EmpiricalEthics? RamonLopez Dallas TexasPhilosophy OntheNonhuman:AReinterpretationofDeepEcology IdaKao Blacksburg Virginia

Philosophy AMoralTheoryofPunishment:WhatCriminalBehaviorteachesusaboutPunishment,Responsibility,andJustDeserts

AlexQuan SanDiego California

Philosophy NudgeTheory:TheLegitimacyofImplementingHeuristicsinChoiceArchitecture SharonLin NewYork NewYork

PoliticalScience TheElectoralCollege:AMathematicalModelofDecisiveVotingPowerUsingEnumerativeCombinatorics

LuciaZheng Aloha Oregon

PoliticalScience ARothbardianJusticeSystemandPoliticalFeasibility NathanielMcCloud Elizabethtown PennsylvaniaPoliticalScience HowdopoliceenforcetheconstructofraceinAmerica? DjelimoryDiabate DURHAM NorthCarolina

PoliticalScience AssessingthePoliticalAlignmentofAmericansUsingtheBiologicalandCulturalr/KSelectionTheories

JennifferProfitt Camden Ohio

PoliticalScience HowConservativeEvangelisminPoliticsLedtoTrump'sVictoryinthe2016PresidentialElection

EmilyHench Durham NorthCarolina

PoliticalScience TheInfluenceofSatireinPolitics TheresaVoyles Durham NorthCarolinaPoliticalScience MniWiconi VivianSnyder Durham NorthCarolina

PoliticalScience PredictiveModelingoftheFactorsthatInfluencePresidentialElections GauravSharmaRachelMa

Lincroft NewJersey

STS "NotSoDumbJock":TheEffectsofHighSchoolAthleticParticipationonStudentProductivityandAchievement

SarahFinkelstein PortWashington NewYork

STS GeneticIdentityTheft:LegislativeSolutionsfortheProtectionofGeneticInformation

PreankaPillai Marlboro NewJersey

STS TheEthicalCostofBiologicalWarfareinUnit731 JoyLu Durham NorthCarolinaSTS TheEthicsofLinkingGeneticsandCrime NikhilDwibhashyam LakeOrion MichiganSTS AnEco-EngineeringRevolution:WhyBiomimicryinthe21stCenturyisVital ChanceEmerson Concord NewHampshireSTS HowCitiesContributetoInnovativeSuccess AlexisYan RochesterHills Michigan

STS The"Airpocalypse"inCitiesAroundtheWorld JakeLiSinanAbdulhak

BloomfieldHills Michigan

STS DesignerBabies:ARevolutionaryAdvancementoranEthicalDisaster! AnushkaDalvi Troy MichiganSTS APrudentandDemocraticApproachtoRegulatingCRISPR/Cas9Technology DanielCui Deerfield MassachusettsSTS EnvironmentalInjustice:ANationalandInternationalPerspective JanisArrojado Durham NorthCarolinaSTS SchoollunchesintheUnitedStatescomparedtoEnglandandCanada SarahBdeir BloomfieldHills Michigan

MITINSPIRE2017Finalists

Category ProjectTitle StudentName(s) City State

STS TheEthicsofAnimalTesting ChristinEalerJahnaviRao

Berwyn Pennsylvania

STS PredictingtheEndofCalifornia’sWaterCrisisThroughDataAnalysis DavidWuJustinYang

SanMateo California

STS LikingtoShare:ThePracticalandEthicalDilemmaofIncreasingUSOrganTransplantDonorPoolsintheContextofSocialMedia

JulianneKim Fullerton California

STS TheEffectoftheClassroomClimateonAcademicEngagementinInnerCitySchools

JazzminMcMyers Bronx NewYork

STS TheEffectofEarlyChildCareProviderCharacteristicsonProvider’sPerceptionsofParentingStyle

TahanyMoosa Bronx NewYork

WGS From“Sissies”toQueerbaiting:TheContinualStruggleforLGBTQRepresentationinFilmandTelevision

SandraChen Pleasanton California

WGS ThewarwithintheSex:ExaminingBarrierstoSolidaritywithintheU.S.FeministMovement

ElainaSassine LaJolla California

WGS GenderDifferencesinEliteArchers MinaBurns SanDiego CaliforniaWGS BodyImagefromtheVictorianAgetotheRoaringTwenties LeeDuan Longmeadow Massachusetts

WGS TheEffectofGenderStereotypeandStereotypeInconsistencyonFalseMemoryofOccupationDescriptions

IsabellaGreco Bronx NewYork

WGS TheRoleofHayaoMiyazaki'sFemaleCharactersinEncouragingRealisticEmpowermentofJapaneseWomenandGirls

JamesNoh Irvine California

WGS LeftOnTop:WomenWorldLeaders&PoliticalIdeologies EunicePark NorthHollywood CaliforniaWGS TheFactorsthatAffectRisk-TakinginBoysandGirls CarolineKachnowski SleepyHollow NewYorkWGS TheExtentofGenderImbalanceinHighSchoolDebate AmandaTanaka SanDiego CaliforniaWGS Keepin'ItReal:Hip-HopasaPlatformfortheThird-WaveFeministMovement IsabelleLee Irvine California

WGS Letchildrenplay:Apilotstudyoftheimpactofdemographicsonmothers’attitudestowardschildren'splaybehaviors

ChloeCanaan Armonk NewYork

WGS PredictorsofAgeatFirstMarriageinSouthandSoutheastAsia MayaOsman-Krinsky Bronx NewYork