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
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3:20 p.m. | Karishma Patel, Modeling, Manipulating, and Measuring Neurexins in Caenorhabditis elegans\
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3:30 p.m. | Cassandra Fontanez, “Igloo”
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PERFORMANCES
3:40 p.m. | Sydney Quinn, Senior Creative Writing Portfolio |
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3:50 p.m. | Jasmin Casiano, Loren Donnely, & Alyssa Sileo, My Role in Monstress
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SOCIAL SCIENCE & HUMANITIES RESEARCH
4 p.m. | Lisa Stites, California’s Wildfire Problem: The Neglected Role of Class and Housing
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4:10 p.m. | Julia Kenner, “Boys masturbate, girls menstruate”: Reframing and Reforming Sex Education in America
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4:20 p.m. | Rebecca Schuman, The Case for Linking Causes: Why Animal Rights are an Environmental Issue
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SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
4:30 p.m. | Arman Sawhney, Investigating Intrinsic Immune Functions of IFI16 and IFIX
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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
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4:50 p.m. | Daniel Kellaway, Divisibility, Discrete Logarithms, and Cyclotomic Polynomials
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5 p.m. | Thank You & Closing
PERFORMANCES (pre-recorded)
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Micah Rivas, Mediations of a Dominicana
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Riya Soyantar, On Cauliflowers and Other Matters of Importance
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SOCIAL SCIENCE & HUMANITIES RESEARCH (pre-recorded)
Brett Cheadle, Analyzing Community-based and Centralized Approaches to Natural Disaster Management
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Emma MacAfee and Diana Karamourtopoulos, Drew Student Voter Project
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Annalisa Manabat, 1960-1981: Horror Films and The Women’s Liberation Movement
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Ryan Strauss, The Anglo-American Special Relationship: Antiquity or Destiny?
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SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (pre-recorded)
Gabriel Dutra, Auto-generated study guides: Correlating similar topics in different subjects
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Sydney Everhart, Exploring Indole-Mediated Persister Bacteria Formation
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Elena St. Amour, Analysis of the Safety of Seaplanes and Amphibious Aircraft
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Robert Sutter, Role of chromatin structure in immune sensing of DNA
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