Fall Research Symposium
About the Symposium
The Fall Research Symposium 2024 will take place in Hughes-Trigg Student Center on Wednesday, October 30, 4-7 p.m.
Each fall, students in select research and service programs are invited to give oral presentations in a miniature professional conference. The programs include: Engaged Learning Fellows, Summer Research Fellows, Cooper McElvaney Peace and Justice Fellows, Hamilton Scholars, Maguire Public Service Fellows, Mayer Fellows, McNair Scholars, Richter Fellows, and Tower Scholars.
2024 Fall Symposium Schedule (pdf)
2024 Presenters
Aguer Atem (McNair Scholar). Mentor: Jill Kelly (History). Turning Pages: Examining the Influence of International Aid on Educational Migration from South Sudan to Kenya.
Sara Beth Becker (Maguire Fellowship). Mentor: Kelly McKowen (Anthropology). To Be Seen: Visibility as Praxis in a Neoliberal Age and the Place of Not Knowing.
Brianna Freshwater (Engaged Learning Fellow). Mentor: Kara Sutton (Sociology) and Sondra Barringer (Education Policy and Leadership). The Racialized Nature of Advanced Placement in Minority White Schools.
Laurens Gijsbertsen and Ephraim Sun (Engaged Learning Fellows). Mentor: Simon Mak (Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship). Applying Alternative Asset Investment Models to Digital Assets.
Simon Gonzales (Maguire Fellow). Mentor: Neely Myers (Anthropology). Addiction, Recovery, Yoga and Kinship from Dallas to San Antonio.
Mustafa Haque (Engaged Learning Starter Award). Mentor: Janille Smith-Colin (Civil and Environmental Engineering). Stakeholder Engagement in Civil Infrastructure Envision Projects.
Sahar Khan (Hamilton Scholar). Mentor: Dr. Amy Brewster (Biological Sciences). A role for complement C3 in modulating neuroimmune interactions in epilepsy.
Jane Liu (Hamilton Scholar). Mentor: Alexander Lippert (Chemistry). Synthesis Steps Towards Monoamine Oxidase Chemiluminescent Probe.
Rachel Mannon (Engaged Learning Fellow). Mentor: Peter Kupfer (Musicology). A Voice for the Wilderness.
James Martin (Maguire Ethics Center). Mentor: Steve Long (Ethics). For the Bible Tells Me So: 20th century Evangelical Epistemology.
Regina Moreno Vera (Hamilton Scholar). Mentor: Edward Glasscock (Biological Sciences). Unlocking Genetic Potential: Investigating Discrepancies in Neurodevelopmental Disjunction within epileptic and Ataxic models.
Tessa Peterson (Hamilton Scholar). Mentor: James Hollifield (Tower Center). Handbook on Migration and Human Rights.
Alyssa Pfeiffer (Engaged Learning Starter Award). Mentor: Alejandro D'Brot (Biological Sciences). An Investigation of Genetic Expression of 5-Lipoxygenase by Montelukast and its Effects in Cognitive Impairment.
Marc Pham (Summer Research Fellow). Mentor: Chul Moon (Statistics and Data Science). How Long Will I Live? AI Tells All.
Mireya Sanchez (Engaged Learning Fellow, McNair Scholar). Mentor: Fernando Clark (Sociology). Wounds Beyond the Battlefield: The Link Between Sexual Assault and Army Stability.
Alexis Schroeder (Engaged Learning Fellow). Mentor: Nia Parson.(Anthropology) Intersectional Crip.
Taylor Shimizu (Hamilton Scholar). Mentor: Neely Myers (Anthropology). Exploring voice-hearing in a mental health clinic patient population in Tanzania to adapt therapeutic options.
Shriya Siddhartha (Richter Fellow). Mentor: Elizabeth Berk (Sociology). Illuminating Blindness: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Social Determinants of Diabetic Retinopathy Treatment in South India.
Genevieve Soucek (Maguire Fellow). Mentor: Kelly McKowen (Anthropology). Preserving Environmental and Linguistic Heritage: How does Conservation Act as a Mode of Care in the Scottish Outer Hebrides?
Vivian Thai (Hamilton Scholar). Mentor: Brian Zoltowski (Chemistry). Dissecting Cryptochrome and Nuclear Hormone Receptors with Cell-Based Assays.