Scholarship celebrated at 21st Spring Symposium

Students and faculty presented research at the 21^st annual Spring Symposium hosted by the faculty Publications Committee on April 8.

Scholar presentations included:

• Isabella Ayers and Brian Diehl, Chemistry: Mathematical Modeling Studies of Copper and Zinc Distribution in S. cerevisiae
• Luke Rodgers, History: “This Modern Moloch”: John R. R. Tolkien and Modern Warfare
• Eunice-Debora Gheorghias-Pali, Mathematics: Projective Geometry: The Vanishing Point Between Math and Art
• Katie Baxley, Stephanie Colon, and Hannah Hall, Chemistry: Essential Oils as Topical Antimicrobials
• Samuel Munteanu, English: Derrida’s Theories Applied to Wuthering Heights
• Madison Odom, Graphic Design: From Why to How: Changing the Question
• Zachary Weaver, Andrew Burbage, Whitney Carpenter, Evan Hack, Jacob Hamacher, Koi McFarland, and Minh Hoang Tran, Computer Science: Exploring the Impact of Generative AI on Learning Recursion in CS1
• Jessica Miller, History and Political Science: The Resurrection of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Presentation in Popular Media in the 1950s
• Audra Bergevin, English: Creative Writing Craft Conversation
• Caroline Jacky, Chemistry: Expressing, Purifying, and Studying PRMT6
• Dr. James Brooks, Biology: Effects of Mouthwash on Human Saliva Microbiota
• Dr. Alyssa Johnson, English: The Nineteenth Century Merchant of Venice
• Tais Pineda, Political Science: The Role of American Remittances in Marginalized Mexican States
• Bryson Resh, English: Chaucer’s Struggle: Love and Fortune in “The Knight’s Tale”
• Emily Cutler, English: Literary Criticism Identity Unit
• Megan Lane, English: The Abode of Love Has Four Brick Walls: The Exclusive, Illusive Doctrines and Deeds of the Agapemonites
• Prof. Kyler Campbell, English: Diversity in the Graphic Novel and Its Uses in the Classroom
• Prof. Angela Gravely, English: Character Development through the Progymnasmata in the Sociological Setting of the Composition and Rhetoric Classroom

Poster Presentations included:

• Taylar While and Katrina Husby, Chemistry: Administration of Antibiotic and Anti-Inflammatory Drugs through Hydrogel Application
• Samuel Miller, Biology: Evaluation of Water-Soluble Cannabinoids on Glioblastoma (T98G) Cell Proliferation Using a Novel Drug Delivery System
• Hannah Romeo, Biology: Investigating the Synergistic Effects of Ivermectin and 5-Fluorouracil on Colorectal Cancer Cells​

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