Denison students are a curious bunch - and they like to dive into research projects on all sorts of topics.
The Lisska Center holds a special lunch to celebrate their accomplishments and present them to the community:
Undergraduate Research Week participants include:
- Barkin Cihanli – Economics/History/Classics minor: “Food Sovereignty in Egypt: A National Security Issue, 1970-1980”
- Moe Thu – International Studies: “Political Economy of Development in Myanmar”
- Grace Martin – Art History and Visual Culture: “The Life of Objects: Mapping Issues of Repatriation in Oceania”
- Maddy Bellman – English (Creative Writing): “The Artistic and Cultural Contexts of Theatrical Translation: A Case Study of Alejandro Casona' 'La Dama del Alba”
- Anandita Gupta – Environmental Studies/Economics: “Financing Sustainability: An Ecological Approach to Resilience and Decentralized Decision- Making”
- Jenn Fajardo Ruiz – An/So/Education double major:“Red-lining: A Critical Case Study of Literacy in Central Ohio”
- Rene Guo – IDM in Political Theology: “THE CRUCIFIED GOD: Covenant, Liberation, and the Hope of the Incarcerated Masses”
- Hannah Glick – Biochemistry: “Stimuli responsive supramolecular assemblies and polymers involving dicalix[4]arenes”
- Harry Ponce – Chemistry and Music Performance: “Local Dynamics of Polyisobutylene in Solution: An All-atom Molecular Dynamics Study”
- Rachel Reardon – Biology major/Chemistry minor: “Epigenetic UV Hyper-resistance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae”
- Amanda Walsh – Biology major/Chemistry minor: “Exploring the role of histone modification in epigenetic UV hyper-resistance of Saccharomyces cerevisiae”
- Angela Sommerer – Physics: “Protoplanetary Nurseries: Identifying Gaps in Circumstellar Disks”
These students also submitted in-depth research projects:
- Rachel Epstein – Political Science
- Breonna Grant – English, Education
- Ivanna Salgado – Narrative Journalism
April 18, 2018