The research symposium
The research symposium, held April 19-28, gave students an opportunity to present their work to peers and to faculty and staff members at Virginia Wesleyan.
The 2006 research symposium spotlighted “Explorations of the Natural World” with presentations from science students at a special opening session. More than 50 students from the Humanities, Natural Sciences and Mathematics and Social Sciences Divisions presented research in a variety of areas, including biology, communications, history, mathematics and psychology.
The academic fair
The academic fair provided an opportunity to showcase the best student scholarship from all departments. During the fair, the Virginia Wesleyan community and guests were able to view projects and talk with the students about their work. Each division awarded prize money to the best projects...
 Timothy Turk ’06 and Mark Messina ’07: "Geologic mapping of the Brigg’s Ranch Quadrangle, Beaverhead County, Montana" |
 Tara Redding ’07: "Adsorption of reactive gaseous mercury onto sea-salt aerosols" |
 Dan Proud ’07: "Various studies on the biology, ecology and natural history of harvestmen" |
 Ivy Ozmon ’08: "Reducing mercury contamination with green roofs" |
…and the winners are…
Humanities
Riescha Curran ’06, Communications
Greg Jackson ’06, Art
Amanda Wolk ’07, Theatre
Social Sciences
Kimberly Stinedurf ’07, History
Jessica Ellington ’08, Chelsea Fry ’07 and Kristie Groves
’06, Psychology
Sarah McDermott ’06, Political Science
Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Rebecca Hunter ’06 and Daniel Proud ’07, Biology
Tara Redding ’07 and Timothy Turk ’07, Earth and Environmental Science
For more information about undergraduate research at Virginia Wesleyan, please visit http://www.vwc.edu/academics/undergraduate_research/.