BA English Majors Dakota Darwin & Arwen Paredes are 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium Winners!

Congratulations to Dakota Darwin and Arwen Paredes for winning 1st and 2ned place in their category—Music, Art, Literature, Theater, History & Philosophy I—at the 14th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium!!!

What a fantastic achievement!

Paredes
1st Place: Music, Art, Literature, Theater, History & Philosophy I
Dakota Darwin, for “Sonic Futures: Janelle Monáe’s Afrofuturistic Soundscapes of Queer Liberation”
faculty mentors: Dr. Sika Dagbovie-Mullins and Dr. Karina Vado
2nd Place: Music, Art, Literature, Theater, History & Philosophy I
Arwen Paredes, for “‘Something to Care For’: Empathetic Gameplay and Representations of Trauma in Baldur’s Gate 3”
faculty mentor: Dr. Timothy Miller