Some 55 Wilmington College students spent their Saturday morning (April 25) sharing details on their work with judges and interested visitors at the 15th annual Student/Faculty Research Forum. Featuring posters and other presentation media, their research projects spanned academic disciplines and, in many cases, featured faculty members as co-authors.
Dr. Angela Mitchell, professor of business administration and associate vice president for academic affairs, is one of the Research Forum coordinators. “This event allows our students to put into practice the expertise they have developed in their academic program,” she said. “They get to apply the classroom work to real-world research questions. And through the Research Forum, they have the platform to showcase the relevance of their work to their field.”
Top awards went to: AGRICULTURE — Wyatt Morrow with Professor Kacey Kelly for “Stories that Advocate: A Thematic Analysis of Agricultural Storytelling Among Ohio College Students”; EDUCATION — Professor Marcella Gallmeyer, “Improving Spelling Outcomes for Students with Disabilities and At-Risk Using Flowcharts”; FINE ARTS/COMMUNICATION ARTS — Trent Mendenhall with Professor Jeff Hazelden, “Worst Take: Social Media Has Ruined the Way We Talk about Sports”; HUMANITIES — Vanessa Asher, “The Upspoken Heroines: Greek Mythology’s Female Deities and Their Divine Role in Homer’s The Iliad.”
BIOLOGY — Makayla Harrington with Profs Amanda Rollins and Oladapo Fagbouhn, “Evaluating the Presence of Herpesvirus-1, Panleukopenia Virus, Calicivirus Coronavirus, Glardia Duodenalis in Feral Cats from Wilmington, Ohio”; SOCIAL SCIENCES — Alen Salihbegovic with Prof. Audrey Wagstaff, “Music Listening Behaviors, Mental Health and Attitude Toward Music as a Therapeutic Tool”; BIOCHEMISTRY, CHEMISTRY, COMPUTER SCIENCE, MATH, PHYSICS — Denzel Moyo with Prof. Mohsen Tabibian, “From Field to Market: How Corn Yields Affect Economic Stability in the State of Ohio and Clinton County”; and OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY GRADUATE PROGRAM — Caroline Delaney, Lauren Russell, Seth Schmidt and Brayden Smith with Prof. Audrey Wagstaff, “Community Access to Recreation Centers”;
PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL AWARD/BIOCHEMISTRY, CHEMISTRY, COMPUTER SCIENCE, MATH. PHYSICS — Olive Iragena and Mamadou Barry with Profs. Amanda Rollins and Oladapo Fagbouhn, ”Rationally Designed Hydrazone and Pyrazole Scaffolds at Dual-Acting Anti-Inflammatory and Antioxidant Candidates”; and PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL AWARD/AGRICULTURE — Wyatt Morrow with Prof. Kacey Kelly, “Stories that Advocate: A Thematic Analysis of Agricultural Storytelling Among Ohio College Students.”
TOP PHOTO: Senior Mamadou Barry speaks on his research, ”Rationally Designed Hydrazone and Pyrazole Scaffolds at Dual-Acting Anti-Inflammatory and Antioxidant Candidates,” which won the President's Council Award for Biochemistry, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics.