As part of the booming health and wellness industry in the United States, women’s fitness magazines contribute to and reflect the cultural conversation. To better understand how these publications both influence and respond to changes in fitness culture, the study analyzes a decade (2012-2021) of “cover lines” from three of...
This study uses multiple different machine learning models to investigate how different skills are affecting the earnings in the IT field. To investigate that we decided to take 7 different machine learning approaches to help identify the factors that affect IT workers' earnings by applying feature importance analysis to the...
This thesis investigates the accuracy of a machine learning approach and a traditional statistical approach in predicting goals in the National Hockey League (NHL) and identifies the factors that are significant in goal prediction. The topic of sports analytics in the NHL is under-researched, evidenced by a gap in...
With the rise of vegetarianism and veganism in the United States, there have been new plant-based meat alternatives (PBMA) on the market. People often struggle with making food decisions (despite being able to situate healthy from unhealthy food). PBMA such as Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods aid in confusing a...
For my undergraduate honors thesis, I studied how major corporations have implemented the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement into its corporate social advocacy (CSA) efforts after the murder of George Floyd in 2020. In efforts to “do the right thing,” CSA has become a crucial aspect of many businesses’ public...
As depicted by American cultural standards, the mass-produced perfect body used to exist only in high-budget advertisements, Hollywood productions, and glamorous photographs. The creation of mass media drastically altered distribution rates and content accessibility, redefining self-perception through millions of mediated images. Over the past 40 years, and especially since the...
Breaking the Bard is an interactive documentary experience geared toward making the works of William Shakespeare more accessible to a modern audience. Through the analysis of the historical, societal, and political environment in which the plays were written and first performed, specifically Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, and Macbeth, users will be...
I created the short pilot for an animated series reflecting on the environment called Trash Island. The project entails the script, storyboard, directing, and animating every aspect of the process, including audio recording. In this four-minute episode of Trash Island, the three main characters accidentally activate a trash monster who...
This study integrates perspectives from professionals working within college sports as well as student athletes to provide a deeper understanding of the aspects that comprise and impact athletes’ individual branding efforts at the collegiate level. In addition, the study offers insight into how the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) proposed...
