Drew University’s annual Day of Scholars event took place on Friday, April 16 from 3-5 p.m.
This virtual, interactive event featured Drew University students delivering research presentations, musical performances and poetry readings before answering viewer questions.
This year’s event included a combination of live and recorded presentations, as well as an online gallery of Senior Studio student work, a yearlong, advanced-level studio art course.
Live Event Schedule
3 p.m. | Welcome/Instructions
OPENING PRESENTATIONS
3:10 p.m. | Regina Sarquis and Nohemy Zabala, Building Bridges/Construyendo Puentes
Contact: rsarquis@drew.edu, nzabala@drew.edu
3:20 p.m. | Karishma Patel, Modeling, Manipulating, and Measuring Neurexins in Caenorhabditis elegans\
Contact: kpatel8@drew.edu
3:30 p.m. | Cassandra Fontanez, “Igloo”
Contact: cfontanez@drew.edu
PERFORMANCES
3:40 p.m. | Sydney Quinn, Senior Creative Writing Portfolio |
Contact: squinn@drew.edu
3:50 p.m. | Jasmin Casiano, Loren Donnely, & Alyssa Sileo, My Role in Monstress
Contact: jcasiano@drew.edu, ldonnelly@drew.edu, asileo@drew.edu
SOCIAL SCIENCE & HUMANITIES RESEARCH
4 p.m. | Lisa Stites, California’s Wildfire Problem: The Neglected Role of Class and Housing
Contact: lstites@drew.edu
4:10 p.m. | Julia Kenner, “Boys masturbate, girls menstruate”: Reframing and Reforming Sex Education in America
Contact: jkenner@drew.edu
4:20 p.m. | Rebecca Schuman, The Case for Linking Causes: Why Animal Rights are an Environmental Issue
Contact: rschuman@drew.edu
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
4:30 p.m. | Arman Sawhney, Investigating Intrinsic Immune Functions of IFI16 and IFIX
Contact: asawhney@drew.edu
4:40 p.m. | Kelly Maegerlein, Investigating the neuroprotection of RD100, a potential group III mGluR positive modulator, in a primary rat cortical FAB/NMDA model of Alzheimer’s disease
Contact: kmaegerlein1@drew.edu
4:50 p.m. | Daniel Kellaway, Divisibility, Discrete Logarithms, and Cyclotomic Polynomials
Contact: dkellaway@drew.edu
5 p.m. | Thank You & Closing
PERFORMANCES (pre-recorded)
Contact: jandrus@drew.edu
Micah Rivas, Mediations of a Dominicana
Contact: mrivas1@drew.edu
Riya Soyantar, On Cauliflowers and Other Matters of Importance
Contact: rsoyantar@drew.edu
SOCIAL SCIENCE & HUMANITIES RESEARCH (pre-recorded)
Brett Cheadle, Analyzing Community-based and Centralized Approaches to Natural Disaster Management
Contact: bcheadle@drew.edu
Contact: efeith@drew.edu
Emma MacAfee and Diana Karamourtopoulos, Drew Student Voter Project
Contact: emacafee@drew.edu, dkaramourtopoul@drew.edu
Annalisa Manabat, 1960-1981: Horror Films and The Women’s Liberation Movement
Contact: amanabat@drew.edu
Ryan Strauss, The Anglo-American Special Relationship: Antiquity or Destiny?
Contact: rstrauss@drew.edu
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (pre-recorded)
Gabriel Dutra, Auto-generated study guides: Correlating similar topics in different subjects
Contact: gdutra@drew.edu
Sydney Everhart, Exploring Indole-Mediated Persister Bacteria Formation
Contact: severhart@drew.edu
Contact: kfleming2@drew.edu
Contact: hprimiano@drew.edu
Elena St. Amour, Analysis of the Safety of Seaplanes and Amphibious Aircraft
Contact: estamour@drew.edu
Robert Sutter, Role of chromatin structure in immune sensing of DNA
Contact: rsutter@drew.edu
