Students show off research chops at Thursday symposium

Janel Shoun-Smith | 

Student Scholar Symposium features presentations by 74 students

The fourth annual Student Scholars Symposium will be held Thursday by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

The Lipscomb community is invited to hear students and their faculty mentors present their latest research in sessions in the Ezell Center at 9:10 a.m., 12:05 p.m. and 2:45 p.m. Posters will be displayed in the Ezell Center lobby from 1:30-2:45 p.m.

Starting with just 39 presenters in 2012, the symposium continues to grow with 74 graduate and undergraduate students making presentations this year and a display of 41 posters of student and student/faculty research emanating from throughout Lipscomb’s colleges.

To see the full symposium program click here.

Presentation topics will range from the humanities to theology to the hard sciences. Among the subjects to be discussed on Thursday are:

  • Food Loss and Waste by Global Region: Analysis and Proposed Reduction Strategies, Emily Henry, 9:25 a.m., Ezell 147
  • Survey of Student Reactions to Mayoral Candidates’ Statements, Daniel Godfrey, 9:40 a.m. in Ezell 301
  • A Divided Body: Church Elitism in 1 Corinthians 11:17-34, Christina Muir, 10:25 a.m., Ezell 301
  • Immunoproteasome Activation Mediated via JAK2 Signaling Pathway in the Presence of IFN-γ Kristin Ali Keith, 12:20 p.m., Ezell 301
  • Where Have I Come From, and Where am I Going?: Conceptions of Ghanaian Children Formerly in Forced Labor, Brooke McAllister, 1:05 p.m., Ezell 301
  • Inhibition of Topoisomerase2 with HU-331 Results in Axonal Pathfinding Defects in Danio rerio, Kadilee Adams, 2:45 p.m., Ezell 301
  • Intuitive Eating in Male and Female Athletes, Morgan Bucher, Kaitlyn Llewellyn, 3:15 p.m., Ezell 301
  • Frankenstein as a Response to Wollstonecraft’s Feminist Theory, Ellie Clayton, 3:30 p.m., Ezell 241
  • Literacy and The Giver: How Young Adult Literature can Attract and Teach Emerging Readers, Jordan Taylor, 3:45 p.m., Ezell 241

The symposium participants will hear a keynote address from Lipscomb alumna Dr. Jean Anderson, professor in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics. Anderson developed and directs the Johns Hopkins HIV Women’s Health Program, and has published more than 60 publications, including “A Guide to the Clinical Care of Women with HIV,” the first text to address the subject. Her talk is titled, “The Lazarus Disease: A Career in HIV.”

Awards for the best paper presentations and posters will be presented Thursday evening.