Hampden-Sydney students present their research to faculty, staff, students, and prospective students in the 2020 Virtual Student Research Symposium.
Rhetoric 310—Advanced Public Speaking
Students in Dr. Sean Gleason's Rhetoric 310 course have examined a number of figures of speech common to the spoken word. Each student has created a short podcast based on a text, performance, or song that he believes demonstrates figures of speech associated with oral culture and public speaking. For this year’s virtual research symposium each student will present a short rhetorical analysis the text selected for his podcast that demonstrates one of the figures of speech learned this semester.
Listen to the full student podcasts
Daniel Newberry '20
Ronald Reagan in Berlin
Mason Sale '20
Lyrical interpretations in the rap genre
Philip Pullen '21
JFK at Rice University ("We choose to go to the moon...")
Kevin Hood '20
Jim Valvano's ESPY speech
Cole Becker '21
The lyrics of The Rolling Stones
Brad Jeffers '21
The lyrics of Nicki Minaj
Christian Quick '20
Winston Churchill's "Finest Hour" speech
Cody Brugos '21
Stuart Scott's ESPY speech
Brayden Lozaw '21
The lyrics of Frank Ocean
Daniel Beal '21
Lyrics in the rap genre
Peyton Carneal '22
Meek Mill's "Dreams and Nightmares"
Biology/Chemistry/Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Jared Dunlap '20
Creation of a Novel Absorbent Bandage for Minor Wound Treatment
Nathan Everette '20 and Christopher Parrish '21
Generating an Auxotrophic Yeast Strain from Popular Ale Yeast
David Fluharty '20
IGF-1 Production via Transformed E. coli for Tissue Engineering Applications
Douglas Hogan '21 and Matthew Rehak '21
Investigating the Antibacterial Properties of Micropterus salmoides Mucus and Growing an Escherichia coli Biofilm in the Hogan-Rehak Apparatus
Andrew Howell '20
The Development of 3D Printable Stretch Bioreactors
William Sparks '21 and Anders Isaksen '21
The Topics of Hemp/CBD
Eli Strong '20
Assessing the Prognostic Significance of FOXC2 Gene Expression in Cancer Patients Using the Cancer Genome Atlas
Brian Tarnai '20
Developing a Public Health Strategy to Combat Colorectal Cancer in Prince Edward County, Virginia
Ryan Tomlin '20
Exploring Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework-8 (ZIF-8) Nanoparticles as an Additive to Growth Media for Myoblasts
Charlie Wolfe '20
Synthesizing and Investigating the Catalytic Properties of (Cu 2+L) 2M 2+ Complexes
Classical Studies and Religion
Zachary Berry '20
The Troublesome Echo of a Song Heard Before: An Analysis of the Poetry of Horace and Tyrtaeus
Wade Bredin '20
Greek Speak: Applying Classical Rhetoric to Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount
Garnet Crocker '20
On God and Nature: A Translation from the Latin of The Anti-Lucretius of Cardinal Melchior de Polignac
Benjamin Mogren '20
Christianity and the Founders on Capitalism and Consumerism: A Look at the Moral Integrity of Capitalism from a Christian and Pagan Standpoint
Economics and Business
Andrew Barden '21
Fintech in African Consumer Markets
Spell Carr '20
The Economy and Marijuana: The Joint Relationship
English
Ethan Betterton '20
Edna O'Brein's The Country Girl and the Collapse of Irish Book Censorship
Government and Foreign Affairs
Shelby Hanna '20
Ethical Considerations in the International Politics of Artificial Intelligence
Nathaniel Higgins '20
Engaging Chinese Influence in Southeast Asia
Graham Smith '20
Russian Reset: Where U.S. Foreign Policy Went Wrong and How We Can Fix It
History
Nicolas Villarroel '20
An Internationalized Civil War: U.S. and Mexican Reactions to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Music
Tanner Voliva '22
Representation of Female Composers in Choral Music Programming
Philosophy
Robert Morris '20
The Theatre of A Thousand Faces
Physics
Christopher Zoller '20
Simulating Different Aspect Ratio Wing Designs for Electric Flight in Conjunction with MATLAB, ANSYS, OpenFoam, and ParaView
Psychology and Neuroscience
Matthew Spagnolo '20
The Audience Effects of Social Facilitation and Team Cohesion on Athletic Performance
Ivan Woodruff '20
The Effects of Chronic Embryonic Caffeine Exposure on Anxiety-Like Behavior in Zebrafish ( Danio rerio)
Visual Arts
Students in Professor Pam Fox's VISU 223 (Photography 1) and VISU 323 (Photography 2) classes have posted recent class projects on Instagram at #profpfox1 and #profpfox2. They also used Instagram to evaluate their classmates’ works. These posts represent works in progress.
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Presentation of the inaugural Anderson Prize for Excellence in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The Virtual Student Research Symposium was used to surprise Dr. Bill Anderson, McGavacks Professor of Chemistry, with the creation of a new student award in honor of his retirement from the College. The Anderson Prize for Excellence in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology will be given each April at Final Convocation to the student who has shown the most leadership and promise in the classroom and the laboratory in biochemistry and molecular biology in their time at Hampden-Sydney.