Fall Research Symposium
About the Symposium
Join us for an evening of discovery, dialogue, and emerging scholarship at the annual Fall Research Symposium. Students in 正品蓝导航's leading research and service programs will deliver 10-minute presentations, offering the campus community an opportunity to learn about their original research, public service initiatives, and creative projects.
Fall Research Symposium
Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 4-7pm
Hughes-Trigg Student Center
Who participates: We welcome students from these programs (other undergrads considered case-by-case if there is space): Caswell Leadership Fellows, Cooper McElvaney Peace and Justice Fellows, Engaged Learning Fellows and Summer Research Interns, Hamilton Scholars, Lyle Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF), Maguire Public Service Fellows, Mayer Fellows, McNair Scholars, Richter Fellows, and Tower Scholars.
2026 Presenters
Presentation times TBD
Ursula Chumley, Statins, Frontal Lobe Function, and Positivity Bias in Older Adults: A Mediation Analysis
Jessica DePaz, Exploring the Influence of Content Instruction and Assessment on Teacher Practice: Teaching Across Language Instruction Educational Programs
Kyla Gijan, Understanding Infrastructure Through Community Voices: A Participatory Mapping Study In Dallas, Texas
Sophia Graham, A documentation of the spread of culture in China through food
Tripp Gulledge, Work and Disability: Envisioning Possibilities
Tanya Harathi, The Gap Between Service and Need: A Field-Based Look at Health and Social Care in Hyderabad, India
Courtland Johnson, Single-Molecule Characterization of Lambda DNA Using Solid-State Nanopores
Chloe Jones, From Pages to Memory: How Storybook Reading Engagement Affects Retention
Bailey Kamau, Youth Perspectives on Church Involvement in Racial Justice Initiatives in South Africa and the US
Kaitlyn Lewis, Community Connections: Observations from a 2nd grade classroom
Charli Matinfar, Triboson Processes at a Muon Collider
Joy Mwenda, Bleeding in Silence: How Period Poverty Affects Middle Aged Girls in Kenya
Mason Nguyen, Patient Experiences across Informal, Formal, and Language-Concordant Interpretation in Limited English Proficiency Populations
Camille Nguyen, Heart to Heart
Stephen Onyangore, The black adult resilience study
Adair Oropeza, Data-Driven Mapping of Backbone Conformational Space Across All 400 Dipeptides
Tolu Oyesanya, Three States, Three Stories: Comparing U.S. History Standards
Alexandra Pegueros, Characterizing JAK/STAT Pathway Activation in Preclinical Models of Focal Cortical Dysplasia
Smriti Ramakrishnan, Finding the Centers of Galaxy Clusters
Jude Rios-Molina, The Art of Anatomy: Visualizing Medicine in Early Modern Italy
Fatima Saad, Mini Moguls
Muntaha Sabir, The Human Experience
Yasmina Said, Stabilization of SSNO(1-) and SNO(1-) at the Zn-site
Shraddha Siddhartha, A genetic screen for contributors to the C. elegans desiccation response
Halle Tarvin, Navigating the Cannabis Complex: A Multi-Sited Ethnography of Therapeutic Use + Risk Calculation Among Texans with Chronic Conditions
Betty Tegene, Understanding Ion Channel Mutations in Drosophila and Mice
Arushi Tripathy, A Comparative Report on Access to Healthcare for Unsheltered Individuals in the United States and South Africa in the Post-COVID-19 Context
Kyra Waterman, Exploring Strain Specific Functional Diversity within the Genus Bifidobacterium
Maddie Wiltse, Regenerative Farm Discipleship