Students Shine at the 4th Annual Student Research Symposium & Humanities Festival

Undergraduate students from Farquhar Honors College displayed their academic and artistic best during the Fourth Annual Student Research Symposium and Humanities Festival held in the Alvin Sherman Library and the Rose & Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center on NSU's main campus.

NSU undergraduates from all disciplines participated in the symposium and festival, showcasing projects covering areas of student scholarship ranging from the experimental and the applied to the computational, theoretical, artistic, and literary.

The symposium and festival presented student projects and performances through oral presentations, paper submissions, and poster displays. They served as a showcase for demonstrating the outstanding scholarship of NSU's undergraduate students.

Prizes were awarded for outstanding projects in several categories:

Oral Research Presentation

1st Place

Dean Don Rosenblum and Associate Dean Naomi D'Alessio with 1st place winner Micaela Mercado: “A Cross-Cultural Perspective of Cohabitation in Young Adults”

2nd Place

Maria Farrell: “Do Cells Grown in the Same Environment at the Same Time Express the Same Genes: Got cDNA?”

Poster – Completed Research

1st Place

Marissa S. Dass: “Critique of President Bush's 2004 Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech”

2nd Place

Thomas Brown: Getting into the Video Game Industry

Poster – In Progress/Proposed Research

1st Place

Raquel Appa & Elaine Hammil: “The Catalytic Conversion of Saccharides”

2nd Place

Justine Ben-Hain, Sophie Buzgon, Tatianna Vassilopoulos: “ Application of Culture Manipulation to Investigate Life Histories Diversity and Ubiquity of Naked Amoebae from Mangroves”