UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ROUND TABLE

November 27th through December 1st, 12:30-1:30 p.m. in Morrill Hall, Room 290

Interested in working on your own research? Thinking about doing an Independent Study or Thesis? Want to know how to get started? Students are invited to join their peers and faculty for free coffee, baked goods, and open discussion any day, Nov. 27-Dec.1. Listen to groups of Ohio State Marion students describe their research experience. Have the chance to ask questions about how to start your own research. Meet faculty who will help you get the whole process started.

SCHEDULE OF STUDENT SPEAKERS

Monday, November 27
Michael Trawinski, History An Awakening of Women: 1820s-1860s (Project Mentor: Margaret Sumner); Samantha Keefer, English The Fracking and Feminism Paradox: How the Unconventional Oil and Gas Industry Appeals to (and Dismisses) Women (Project mentors: Anna Willow and Ben McCorkle)

Tuesday, November 28
Jacob Kroh, Chemistry, Analysis of Factors that Prevent Tumor Formation (Project Mentor: Ruben Petreaca); Kori Montgomery, Psychology, Is the Plural a Scalar Implicature? (Project Mentor: Nikole Patson); Billy Moodie, History, The Great Debate in the American Lutheran Church, 1820s-1860s (Project Mentor: Margaret Sumner)

Wednesday, November 29
Keily Cunningham, History, How German Immigrants Helped Form the American Middle Class, 1820s-1850s (Project Mentor: Margaret Sumner); Samantha Burkett, Biochemistry, Smart Mobility: OSU, ODOT, and Central Ohio (Project Mentor: Sue Oakes); Maddie Nicol, Psychology, The Role of Gestures on the Interpretation of Plurals (Project Mentor: Nikole Patson)

Thursday, November 30
Lauren Chivington, English, The Girl, the Jew, and the Maus: Holocaust Narratives in Controversial Media (Project Mentor: Ben McCorkle); Julian Morales, History, “Terror of the Trading Part of the World:” Atlantic Piracy: 1700-1750 (Project Mentor: Margaret Sumner)

Friday, December 1
Rachel Hopper, Biochemistry, Molecular Modeling of Potential Therapeutics for Acetylcholinesterase Reactivation (Project Mentor: Ryan Yoder); Christyne Horton, English, Whaling and Native American Culture (Project Mentor: Sara Crosby)