A&S Students Present Impressive Research at Annual Undergraduate Research Festival
Over 100 A&S students gathered at the Life Sciences Complex to showcase their findings for faculty, peers and guests.
Well over 100 undergraduate students presented their findings to a crowd of their peers, faculty, staff and interested visitors at the College of Arts & Sciences’ (A&S’) annual Undergraduate Research Festival on April 19, 2024.
The event, which was held in the Life Sciences Complex, showcased a wide variety of student research, with project titles ranging from “Importance of Ancestors and Ancestorship in Spanish Communities and Culture” (Nicolas Greiner-Guzman) to “Heart Rate Variability in Relation to Childhood Stuttering” (Libby Fox).
With 80 poster exhibitions and 20 faculty-moderated presentations on offer, this year’s festival was once again one of the largest of any such event at Syracuse University.
Physics student Meagan Gonzalez explaining her research to an attendee. Her project was titled, Energy Barriers of Cellular Rearrangements in Epithelial Tissues.
Psychology major Joshua Soh with his project, Associations Between Coping-Related Drinking Motives and Chronic Pain Severity. (Photo Credit: @syracuseupsych on Instagram)
Chemistry major Daniel Porreca presented findings from his project, Noninvasive In Vivo Monitoring of Plasma Volume and Hematocrit in Humans Using the FRD/PVOH Device: From Cozy to Cold.
Writing and rhetoric student Belinda Chan with her project titled, From Silent Film to Color Motion: The Evolution of Female Film Characters Across the Four Waves of Feminism. (Photo Credit: Belinda Chan)
A wide range of A&S programs were represented, with students taking part from the Departments of Art and Music Histories, Biology, Chemistry, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology, Women’s and Gender Studies and Writing and Rhetoric.
A selection of students shared brief summaries of their research. Watch their interviews below.
Linguistics student Rachel Iannarelli offers background on her project, Forensic Linguistics: The Pragmatics of Police Interviews.
Anna Meehan, an international relations, music history and cultures, and Russian language, literature and culture major, discusses the motivation for her project, The Impact of Socialist Realism on Soviet Classical Music Composition: A Case Study of Shostakovich’s Quartet no. 8.
Learn more about undergraduate research opportunities in A&S.