The "Community of Scholars Seminar Series" is a series of interdisciplinary research talks held each spring on campus. The seminars offer opportunities for Ohio State Marion students and faculty to deliver professional talks on their research or other academic activities. One aim of the seminar series is to foster an atmosphere of collegiality and interdisciplinary discussions on topics of interest to faculty and students. In addition, the seminars are an opportunity for interested students to learn about the research process from peers and so students are particularly encouraged to attend.
Community of Scholars Seminar Series
Our next Community of Scholars event
"From Pixels to Perception: How AI Understands Images"
Mon., Feb. 16, 2026, 12:40-1:40 p.m. (Science & Engineering Building, Room 205), Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Dr. Gol Mirzaei with student researcher Arman Abbasi,
This presentation introduces how AI understands images, starting from pixels and simple patterns. It also highlights how these ideas are relevant to real-world applications, including medical imaging such as MRI scans of brain tumors (glioma), to show the broader impact of AI in healthcare.
"Endoscopic Flexor Hallucis Longus Transfer, an Anatomic Critical Review"
Mon., Feb. 16, 2026, 12:40-1:40 p.m. (Science & Engineering Building, Room 205), student researcher Luke Martin, Principal Investigator, Dr. Kevin Martin
Surgical innovations in Achilles tendon repair utilizing cutting edge Nano-technology cameras; a minimally invasive way to transfer the FHL tendon, and restore strength and power.
Monday, February 16, 2026, 12:40-1:40 p.m., (Science & Engineering Building, Room 205)
Presentation 1 - "From Pixels to Perception: How AI Understands Images," student researcher Arman Abbasi with Principal Investigator, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Dr. Gol Mirzaei.
Presentation 2 - , "Endoscopic Flexor Hallucis Longus Transfer, an Anatomic Critical Review" student researcher Luke Martin with Principal Investigator, Dr. Kevin Martin.
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Monday, February 23, 2026, 12:40-1:40 p.m., Dean & Director, Dr. Jennifer Schlueter, title tba
Monday, March 23, 2026, 12:40-1:40 p.m., Professor of Psychology, Dr. Tracy Tylka, title tba
Monday, March 30, 2026, 12:40-1:40 p.m., Liv Frazier, title tba
Monday, April 27, 2026, 12:40-1:40 p.m., Associate Professor of Psychology, Dr. Chris Daddis, title tba
Mon., Sep. 22, 2025, (Morrill Hall, Room 200)
Associate Professor of Mathematics, Scott Zimmerman, “How far apart are 'Columbus' and 'Marion'? An intro to metric spaces.”
Mon., October 27, 2025, 12:40-1:40 p.m. (Morrill Hall, Room 200)
Isabella Huth, "Investigating genes that confer antibiotic resistance in bacteria," (Mentor: Bouley)
Gavin Hamric, "Application of spectral methods for high accuracy numerical simulations," (Mentor: Mansouri)
Fri., Nov. 7, 2025, (Science & Engineering Building, Room 205)
Gabrielle Cachapero and Aya Abdel Jabar (Mentor: Sivakoff)
Fri., November 14, 2025, 12:40-1:40 p.m. (Science & Engineering Building, Room 205)
Kiersten Spiegel, "Binding Affinity Profiles of G-protein Coupled Receptors and Mutated Protein Arginine N-methyltransferase 5," (Mentor: Yoder)
Mon., Nov. 24, 2025, 12:40-1:40 p.m. (Morrill Hall, Room 200)
Jillian Mariotti, "Are there differences in how unmentioned alternatives are stored in memory?"
Camryn Mackey, "Investigating small molecule targets of the GIP receptor."
Thu., Dec. 4, 2025, 12:30-1:45 p.m. (in the Library Classroom Building, Library first floor main space)
Renee Bouley, "Biochemistry Class Project Poster Session"
Mon., Jan. 27, 12:30 p.m., (Morrill Hall, Room 160)
Justin North, "The History of the Council of Jewish Women of Marion"
Tue., Feb. 4, (Science and Engineering Building, Room 205)
Majd Al-Marrawi, "Structural analysis of DNA damage repair mutations in human cancers"
Tue., Feb. 11, 12:30 p.m., (Morrill Hall, Room 160)
Sharon Gattshall, "Without a Voice, The Trial of Bill Anderson and His Fight for Freedom at the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement in Marion, Ohio 1839"
Wed., Feb. 19, 12:30 p.m., (Morrill Hall, Room 125)
Micah Harris, "Crawford County War Trophies: Experiencing Public History"
Wed., Feb 26, 12:30 p.m., (Morrill Hall, Room 160)
Dallas White, "To Give It All For The War: The Women of Marion, Ohio and the World War Two Homefront., 1941-1945"
Thu., March 6, (Science and Engineering Building, Room 205)
Anna Valentine, "Identification and characterization of ADAR1 mutations and changes in gene expression in human cancers"
Thu., March 20, 12:30 p.m., (Science and Engineering Building, Room 205)
Hunter Bliss, "Genetic Interactions with DNA Double-Strand Break Repair Genes"
Mon., March 24, 12:30 p.m., (Science and Engineering Building, Room 205)
Computer science and engineering major, Abraham Mussie,
"Advancing Image Segmentation with Deep Learning: From Butterfly Datasets to Medical Imaging"
Wed., April 2, 12:30 p.m., (Science and Engineering Building, Room 205)
Kiersten Dailey, "Investigation of crossover between cannabinoid receptors and GLP1R"
Mon., April 14, 12:30 p.m., (Science and Engineering Building, Room 205)
Lillian Schneider, "Computational Study of Cannabinoid Receptors CB1 and CB2"
Wed., Oct. 30th, (Science & Engineering Building, Room 205)
Kameron Speigel, Title: Investigating Rhizobial Bacterial Communities in Formerly Mined Lands.
Research Mentor: Dr. Frances Sivakoff
Mon., Nov. 4th, 12:30-1:20 p.m., (Science & Engineering Building, Room 205)
Everett Helm, Title: An introduction to undergraduate research in fundamental particle physics.
Research Mentor: Dr. Chris Orban
Tue., Nov., 12th, 12:30-1:20 p.m., (Morrill Hall, Room 125)
Eliza Rodriquez, Title: Zip, Click, Reread: Understanding and Developing Digital and Physical Literacy Spaces through the Digital Archive of Literacy Narrative.
Research Mentor: Dr. Ben McCorkle
Wed., Nov 20th, 12:30-1:20 p.m. (Science & Engineering Building, Room 205).
Adam Khadre, Title: Computational analysis reveals mutation patterns in cancer-related genes.
Research Mentor: Dr. Golrokh Mirzaei, Dr. Ruben Petreaca
Feb 20th, (Morrill Hall, Room 200)
Sarah Holbrook. Title: If She Thinks Me Such a Monster, I’ll Play the Part”: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Tyrion Lannister’s Dwarfism, Masculinity & Monstrosity.
March 18th, (Science & Engineering Building, Room 205)
John Simonis. Title: ClaySight: Using LiDAR and SLAM to Aid Visually Impaired Persons.
March 20th, (Science & Engineering Building, Room 205)
Carson Artrip. Title: Understanding The Importance of Two L,D-transpeptidases from Enterobacter cloacae through Sequence Alignment and B-lactam Inhibition.
March 26th, (Science & Engineering Building, Room 205)
Wesley Bush. Title: DNA break repair factors mutations in human cancers.
April 2nd, (Morrill Hall, Room 200)
Mak Yake. Title: Iconic vs. Arbitrary: How Instruction Method Effects Non-ASL Signers' Sign Production.
April 3rd, (Science & Engineering Building, Room 205)
- Divyesh Bommana. Title: Mult omics-driven Multi-task learning for cancer classification.
- Maddie Ball. Title: Sinking my teeth into undergraduate research and digging up opportunities at Ohio State Marion
April 4th, (Science & Engineering Building, Room 205).
Lilian Schneider, Maria Ruano (co-presenters). Title: Evaluation of Mutations in the Cannabinoid System in Cancer Patients.
April 10th, (Morrill Hall, Room 200)
- Sal Willis. Title: What makes a STEM major? An attitude strength approach to understanding intentions to pursue higher education in STEM subjects among undergraduate students.
- Madalyn Hartley. Title: Understanding the bacterial communities of formerly mined land.
Thursday, March 23rd, 12:30 p.m., Morrill Hall, Room 200
English Lecturer, Sue Oakes
Topic: Reading a Place of Memory: The Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset County, Pennsylvania
Tuesday, January 17th, 12:30 p.m. in the Science & Engineering Building, Room 205
Student Researcher, Zane Nelson
Topic: Protein-Protein Interaction of HIRA; chromosomal remodeling protein
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Renee Bouley
Student Researcher, Michela Writesel
Topic: The purification and antibiotic inhibition of L,d Transpeptidase in Enterobacter cloacae
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Renee Bouley
Tuesday, January 24th, 12:30 p.m. in Morrill Hall, Room 200
Professor of English, Ben McCorkle
Topic: 100 Years of New Media Pedagogy: Writing a Disciplinary History using Data Visualizations and Multimodal Production
Monday, January 30th, 12:30 p.m. in Science & Engineering Building, Room 205
Student Researcher: Twyla Gray
Topic: How stressors affect bumble bee health: synergistic and individual effects of fungicides and gut parasites
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Frances Sivakoff
Student Researcher: Kim Hardison
Topic: KAT5 histone acetyltransferase mutations in cancer cells
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ruben Petreaca
Monday, February 6th, 12:30 p.m. in Morrill Hall, Room 200
Dean & Director, Associate Professor of Geography, Greg Rose
Topic: African Americans in the Old Northwest by 1850
Monday, February 13th, 12:30 p.m., Morrill Hall, Room 200
Professor of Mathematics, Aurel Stan
Topic: Some inequalities about means and norms
Abstract: The H¨older and Stolarsky means of two positive numbers will be introduced first. Some inequalities among these means will be presented next. We end the talk with some inequalities about norms of Wick products.
Monday, February 20th, 12:30 p.m., Morrill Hall, Room 200
Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, Parisa Fatheddin
Topic: Applications of mathematics in cyber security, Google search engines and laser technology
Wednesday, March 1st, 12:30 p.m., Morrill Hall, Room 200
Student Researcher, Sharon Gattshall
Topic: Without a Voice, The Trial of Bill Anderson and His Fight for Freedom at the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement in Marion, Ohio, 1839
Monday, March 6th, 12:30 p.m., Morrill Hall, Room 200
Student Researcher, Dallas White (working with Associate Professor of History, Margaret Sumner)
Topic: Marion Women and the World War II Homefront: Research Discoveries in the Marion Women's Club Archives
Thursday, March 23rd, 12:30 p.m., Morrill Hall, Room 200
English Lecturer, Sue Oakes
Topic: Reading a Place of Memory: The Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset County, Pennsylvania
Tuesday, March 28th, 12:30 p.m., Morrill Hall, Room 200
Associate Professor of Psychology, Program Coordinator, Nikole Patson
Topic: Misconceptions about language: How prejudice shows up in our linguistic “knowledge”
Tuesday, April 4th, 12:30 p.m., Science and Engineering Building, Room 205
Student researchers, Shayaan Rasheed and Maria Ruano
Topic: Investigating the inhibition of PRMT5 through biochemical and computational approaches
Thursday, April 13th, 12:30 p.m., Morrill Hall, Room 200
Student researchers, Molly Quinn and Stephanie Karrick (Patson lab)
Topic: Exact or approximate? How number information is represented during language comprehension
Monday, April 17th, Science and Engineering Building, Room 205
Assistant Professor/Computer Science and Engineering, Program Coordinator, Gol Mirzaei
Topic: Disease detection using