This collection contains presentations and/or information about the presentations given by Belmont University students at the annual SPARK Symposium event.

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Submissions from 2026

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A Study of Histoire du Tango by Astor Piazzolla, Carolyn M. Totaro and Julian Audinelle

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A Study of Finlandia by Jean Sibelius, Carolyn M. Totaro and Aidan Aycock

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A Study of the Coffee Cantata, BWV 211 by J.S. Bach, Carolyn M. Totaro and Shelby Bagg

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A Profile of Dame Joan Sutherland, Carolyn M. Totaro and McKinnon Baker

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A Study of The Three Penny Opera by Kurt Weill, Carolyn M. Totaro and Claire Barton

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A Study of the Sonata for flute, viola, and harp by Claude Debussy, Carolyn M. Totaro and Emma Berridge

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A Profile of Richard Stoltzman, Carolyn M. Totaro and Ted Bielecki

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A Profile of Dennis Brain, Carolyn M. Totaro and Keaton Bradford

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A Profile of Keith Lockhart, Carolyn M. Totaro and Gavin Buhr

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A Profile of Pablo Casals, Carolyn M. Totaro and Thomas Canas

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A Profile of Placido Domingo, Carolyn M. Totaro and Jadyn Case

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A Profile of Jane Little of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Carolyn M. Totaro and Jayla Frazier

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A Profile of Jean-Michel Damase, Carolyn M. Totaro and Trinity Gilbert

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A Profile of Arnold Jacobs, Carolyn M. Totaro and Caedmon Goettel

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A Profile of Dietrich Fischer Dieskau, Carolyn M. Totaro and Kamrin Gordon

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A Profile of Jeanne Baxtresser, Carolyn M. Totaro and Simone Gore

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A Study of the opera Tosca by Giacomo Puccini, Carolyn M. Totaro and Natalia Hernandez

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A Profile of Vaslav Nijinsky, Carolyn M. Totaro and Megan Hoggarth

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A Profile of Isaac Stern, Carolyn M. Totaro and Hailee Howard

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A Study of Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs by Leonard Bernstein, Carolyn M. Totaro and Isabella Jones

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A Study of the ballet The Firebird by Igor Stravinsky, Carolyn M. Totaro and Lia Juan

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A Profile of Thomas Andrew Lehrer, Carolyn M. Totaro and Lilli Korakis

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A Profile of Van Cliburn, Carolyn M. Totaro and Ava Kronenberger

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A Study of Le Tombeau du Couperin by Maurice Ravel, Carolyn M. Totaro and Reece Logan

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A Profile of Evelyn Glennie, Carolyn M. Totaro and Molly Maltempi

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A Study of the String Quartet by Maurice Ravel, Carolyn M. Totaro and Annie McMillion

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A Study of the Octet for Winds by Igor Stravinsky, Carolyn M. Totaro and Andres Montes

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A Profile of Jacqueline Du Pre, Carolyn M. Totaro and Macie Moon

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A Study of the Airs for the Seasons by James Oswald, Carolyn M. Totaro and Sophie Nicholls

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A Study of the opera Trouble in Tahiti by Leonard Bernstein, Carolyn M. Totaro and Skyler Orr-Depner

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A Study of the opera Tales of Hoffman by Jacques Offenbach, Carolyn M. Totaro and Ellie Sawyer

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A Profile of Jerome Robbins, Carolyn M. Totaro and Victoria Sims

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A Profile of Trevor Pinnock, Carolyn M. Totaro and Connor Skelly

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A Study of the Peasant Cantata, BWV 212 by J.S. Bach, Carolyn M. Totaro and Peyton Smith

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A Profile of the Partch Ensemble, Carolyn M. Totaro and Grant Stanley

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A Study of Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss, Carolyn M. Totaro and Luke Stephens

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A Profile of Alice Chalifoux of the Cleveland Orchestra, Carolyn M. Totaro and Sage Talamanco

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A Study of the Mikrokosmos by Bela Bartok, Carolyn M. Totaro and Cameron Thorne

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A Study of the Makrokosmos by George Crumb, Carolyn M. Totaro and Hampton Turner

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A Profile of Daniel Barenboim, Carolyn M. Totaro and Daniel Valle

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A Study of the Sinfonietta by Leoš Janáček, Carolyn M. Totaro and Ezra Vorvick

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A Study of Ionisation by Edgard Varese, Carolyn M. Totaro and Mason Weintz

Subverting the Gender Hierarchy: An Analysis of "God Games" Through a Feminist Lens, LJ Towell

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ONC-SAFE: Oncology-Specific Fall Prevention Initiative, aubry C. townzen, Stella Chigbrow, Katie McBride, and Payton Bolin

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Finding Affordable Alternatives: A Similarity-Based Beauty Product Duplication, Jessica Tran

Ecclesiastic Latin: The Tome of Pope St. Leo the Great, Vincent M. Truitt

Beyond Bedtime: Examining the Relationship Between Sleep & GPA in First Year College Students, Lucas Uriarte

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The Data Cycle - Assessment Tutoring, Jireh A. Valdez Hernandez

Innovations in Materials for Designers & Architects: Steel vs. Spider Silk, Colby R. Van Gelderen

Fragile Economies, Fragile States: How Economic Weakness Fuels Military Coups, Kham K. Van

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Peri-Op Protect: A Unified Pre-Op to PACU Medication Reconciliation System, Tyler G. Van Note, Ariana Amalia Anast, Samantha Ashley Steiner, and Tara Gilbert

FOXP1 Knockout Alters Brain Communication: Insights into Language-Related Gene Changes, Fenna van Wilgen

Heightened Emotional Response to Infant Distress in College Students, Fenna van Wilgen, Kehlie Hopper, Benjamin Hayes, and Lacy Conley

Game Jam AGS, Dillan R. Victory, Hope M. Williams, Adrian M. Volpw, and Robert C. Lewis

Cult Classics: Exploring Religion Today, Alvaro Villarreal

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Physiological Correlates of Health-Related Anxiety - An Investigation between Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and Blood Pressure Reactivity in Clinical Settings, Alvaro Villarreal, Sarah Headapohl, Chase Parks, Melanie Gonzalez, Sage Olsson, and Mounyjwok Odhong

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The Impact of Smartphone Notifications and Locus of Control on Reading Comprehension, Katherine Visner, Sarah M. Fritts, Audrey Laskey, and Chloe Giraud

Exploration of the Seifert-Van Kampen Theorem, Adrian Volpe and Jackson Sayre

Game Jam JELT, Ethan M. Voraritskul, Lian Mang, and Justin Ho

Material Innovations in the Interior Design Industry, Emslie Wallace

Air Quality in Belmont Buildings: Beaman Student Life Center, Emslie Wallace and Whit Cagle

Canopy Veil Research Center, makiya walton

Material Innovations in Past, Present, and Future, Emily S. Watson

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Acuity-Based Staffing Tool: Improving Patient Outcomes and Nurse Wellbeing in a Local Critical Care Unit, Grace Watson, Rachel Nazha, Madeline Ruffin, and Evvy Lewis

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From Flat to Form- Shoulder Cluster Darts, Lauryn White

Visual Art in Sound: Compositional and Performance Approaches to Musical Ekphrasis, Andrew H. Wieler

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The Data Cycle: Assessments & Progress, Shelby R. Willford

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Testing elicitors of homologous JadR2 proteins to regulate natural product production, Carzon J. Williams, Emilee A. Patterson, and Allison S. Walker

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Teaching as Learning: Lessons from Kindergarten, Ellise Williams

For the People: A Study on the Electoral Success of Populist Candidates, Kate Wilson

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From Flat to Form - Asymmetrical Darts, Brennan G. Winn

The Formula for Musical Expression, William W. Wirth

Public Health Policy Analysis, Kennedy Wise

The  Effects of Invasive Plant Species on Soil Microbial Metabolic Activity and Functional Diversity Warner Park, Nashville, Tennessee, Kennedy Wise and Libbie Hamilton

Back to Work: The Post-COVID Labor Market for Mothers of Young Children, Ashley Wolfe

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What I Learned in the Classroom: A Reflection on Teaching Practice, Eden J. Wolfe

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Cisplatin Chemotherapy Shown to Decrease Heart Rate in Daphnia magna​, Cody Woten and Andrea Florian

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Chemotherapy Exposure Alters Heart Rate in Daphnia magna: A Rapid Model for Evaluating Cardiotoxicity, Leland B. Wythoff and Andrea Florian

Predictors of 90-Day Readmission Following Instrumented Spine Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study, Alex Zhang, Matthew Giammanco, Phillip Alexeev, and Ryan Snowden

PSYCHOLOGY: Behind the Mask: How Hidden Faces Shape Emotion and Attention, Kaitlyn Ziebell

Game Jam Snap, Ava L. Zindel, Dailin D. Siggers, Bek Anvarov, and Jonathan Menjivar

Submissions from 2025

Urban vs. Rural Drinking Water: Comparing Safety, Quality, and Potential Contaminants, Isabel G. Adams and Ross Andrew Ph.D.

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A Theorem on Parity That's so Odd, You Can't Even, Cara Admiraal

Filling Gaps in Publishing Data: New York Times Best Sellers, Katherine E. Aebi

Illinois Biometric Privacy Act, valerie l. affeldt, nick kitchokoff, and vicente herrera

Home - A Dance Composition, Julia Aguanno, Olivia Lannin, Thaddeus Williamson, Xander Benton, Grace Heinrichs, Kate Steffan, Rylan Helmer, and John Turelli

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Tower-Blaster2.0, Sarah A. Ahmed

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GD-GameJam2025-HyruleHackers, Sarah A. Ahmed, Jeremiah McDonald, and Jordan Jefferis

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"Data Science for Digital Privacy: A Practical Guide for Non-Technical Audiences", Kayla Ahrndt

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Extending Feature-Based Detection for Artificial Intelligence, Kayla Ahrndt

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Forecasting Supply Chain Disruptions and Reducing Costs Through Data Science, Kayla Ahrndt

Meet Me Behind The Mall: A Musical Adaptation of Folklore and Evermore by Taylor Swift, Zachary J. Alderdice

What's Wrong with Superficial?": Sondheim and Ives's Here We Are as a Case Study of Modern Adaptation, Zachary J. Alderdice

What’s Wrong with Superficial?’: Sondheim and Ives’s Here We Are as a Case Study of Modern Adaptation, Zach Alderdice, Daniella Flom, and Zoe Snell

Rates of 90- Day Readmission following Single and Two- Staged Treatment of Surgical Site Infection, Phillip Alexeev

Reoperation and Complications Following Surgically Treated Postoperative Surgical Site Infection, Phillip Alexeev and Ryan Snowden

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Gen Z Voter Turnout: An Analysis of Barriers to Participation in State and Local Elections, Avery Allen

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How Does Honey Make Gold Nanoparticles? Optical Analysis of the Effects of Temperature and Composition, Lydia Alvarnaz and Davon Ferrara PhD

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Z. Alexander Looby: An Illusion of Hope, Katerine N. Amaya Hernandez

Detecting AI-Generated Phishing Attacks Targeting IoMT Devices in Healthcare Using Machine Learning, Kimberly J. Amaya Hernandez and Najma Ismail