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Celebrating Loyola's Commitment to Undergraduate Research and Scholarship
Some of the colloquium finalists with their faculty mentors and the Committee
| On Friday, March 31st 2006, the Undergraduate Student Research & Scholarship Committee held its seventh annual Colloquium. The competition continues a campus-wide forum in which undergraduate research and scholarship can be presented before the college community. This event not only contributes to the professional development of participants, it underscores the importance the college places on student involvement in creative intellectual endeavors. |
Click here for the full list of presentations The finalists listed below presented their research in open competition for First, Second, and Third Place cash awards. Oral Presentations First Place Elizabeth Riordan: "Lucas van Leyden’s The Card Players: Viewership and the Moralizing Tale"
Mentor: Dr. Barnaby Nygren
Second Place Brendan Hogan: "U.S.-Saudi Relations during the Reagan Administration"
Mentor: Dr. Thomas Pegram
Third Place Lauren Teresa: "House of the Vettii"
Mentor: Dr. Barnaby Nygren
Poster Presentations First Place Krista Stancati & Margaret Hogan: "The Role of Female Protagonists in Children's Literature"
Mentor: Dr. Wendy Smith
Second Place Ryan Hindinger: "Directing Arcadia and Design Technology"
Mentor: Dr. James Bunzli
Poster Presentations First Place Aaron Eddy: "Will the Computer Lose Our Minds?: Information Retention via Print and Electronic Formats"
Mentor: Dr. Gloria Phillips-Wren
Second Place Elizabeth Vitro: "The Fertility Revolution: Changing Effects of Female Labor Force Participation over 50 Years"
Mentor: Dr. Richard Franke
Third Place Alicia Ferriso: "Country Analysis Report: Black & Decker in Honduras"
Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Cummings
Oral Presentations First Place Kendra Richard: "Dramatic Adaptation and New Play Development: A Fusion of Theatre and Writing"
Mentor: Dr. James Bunzli
Second Place Kristen Gorman: "Adaptation Proposal"
Mentor: Dr. James Bunzli
Oral Presentations First Place Kathleen Ansaldi: "Rank Computations on a Family of Quartic Curves"
Mentor: Dr. Ethan Duckworth
Second Place Henry Feild: "Identifier Splitting Methods"
Mentors: Dr. David Binkley & Dr. Dawn Lawrie
Third Place Robert Hinkey: "Studying Gaussian Beam Propagation and Building an Optical Tweezer"
Mentor: Dr. Mary Lowe
Poster Presentations First Place Katelin Kelly: "Leaf Characteristics of Three Arabidopsis Iyrata Populations: Implications for Drought Resistance"
Mentor: Dr. Bernadette Roche
Second Place Eileen DeVillier: "Modeling an Epileptogenetic Focus"
Mentor: Dr. Lisa Oberbroeckling
Oral Presentations First Place Tamika Jones: "Racial Group Perceptions and Neighborhood Influence"
Mentor: Dr. Lovell Smith
Second Place Brendan Hogan: "The Correlates of Political Instability - A Logistic Regression Approach"
Mentor: Dr. James Quirk
Third Place Vanessa Clemente-Walters & Richard Tringali: "Some Relationships Among Physical Self-Efficacy, Assertiveness, Gender and Vulnerability to Assault"
Mentor: Dr. David Crough
Poster Presentations First Place James Marinchak, Valerie Crosby & Chris Dillon: "Right-Wing Authoritarianism, Homonegativity, and Sexism: Do Right-Wing Authoritarians Have More Prejudiced Social Attitudes?"
Mentor: Dr. Kerri Goodwin
Second Place Rebecca Cordell, Katelyn Woods & Amy Scafidi: "Homesickness in Relation to Extraversion, Self-Esteem and Distance from Home in College Freshmen"
Mentor: Dr. Alison Papadakis
Third Place Maura Toomb, Dayna Pizzigoni & Catherine Thompson: "Parental Influence on the Social Desirability and Body Image of College-Age Females"
Mentor: Dr. Kerri Goodwin
Pictures from the Colloquium 
From left to right: Dr. David Haddad (VP for Academic Affairs), Dr. James Buckley (Dean of Arts and Sciences), Dr. Dahringer (Dean of Sellinger School of Business and Management) and Fr. Brian Linnane (President of Loyola College) chat at the Colloquium. | 
Gathering in the Sellinger Atrium |
Keynote speaker, Rev. John Conley, S.J.
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