Honors Program students present at URCA 2019

The 10th annual Ashland University College of Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Symposium (URCA) took place on April 9, 2019. This event allows students to present their scholarly and/or creative work in a professional conference format. These outstanding students begin their careers already contributing in their particular fields.

This year, a number of Honors Program students presented at the URCA symposium. Some of our students gave oral presentations, including:

• Senior Alexis Lough: Effects of Microplastic Exposure on the Freshwater Crustacean, Daphnia magna
• Senior Brianna Sargent: Quand La Culture Reste: Le Rhum et Martinique
• Senior Kiana Ziegler presented an oral and poster presentation, entitled A Meditation on the Flesh: Self-Therapy for Managing Chronic Health Conditions
• Senior Emily Nicholls: The Differeing Quality of Two Wetland Plant Communities and the Possible Impact on Threatened Marsh Birds
• Senior Corianna Borton: Probing the Root Exudation of Harmala Alkaloids from Syrian Rue
• Sophomore Shelby Aulger: Defining What is Natural: Gender Issues of Dominance and Control Within Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Senior Kaitlyn Bailey: Answering the Battle Cry of Freedom: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the Call to Noble Action
• Junior Abigail Dingus: Density-Dependent Growth Responses of Arabidopsis to Copper Toxicity
• Senior Audrey Saler: The Impact of Brand Perceptinos on Consumer Behavior
• Senior Naomi Sims: The Relationship of Artificial Intelligence and Humanity: Andy, the Analysis of a Screenplay
• Junior Elizabeth Grim: Feminismo en como agua para chocolate
• Senior Allyson Lombardo: Examination of Using LIght as a Baiting Technique for Adult and Larval Ambystomid Salamanders
• Senior Emily Martin: An Analysis of the Effect of Early Season Winning Percentage on Final Regular Season Winning Percentage

Honors Program students also gave poster presentations on a variety of topics, including:

• Junior Dana Awlia: Media's Influence on Islamaphobia
• Freshman Taylor Bunce: Investigation of Metal-Organic Frameworks Incorporating Carboxycoumarin Linkers
• Junior Maria Kern: Water Quality Monitoring in the Black Fork River, a Tributary in the Ohio River Basin
• Senior Elizabeth Takacs (along with fellow student Bryce McClish): Price Estimations and Confidence Levels: An Experiment Replicated
• Senior Kaitlyn Moore: An Examincatino of News Coverage and Media Framing of Gay Marriage/Marriage Equality
• Senior Kiana Ziegler (along with several other art students): Brand Identity and Product Packaging Design
• Junior Cameron Middis: Design and Construction of an E-cigarette Inhalation Chamber
• Junior Cillian Donahue: Using Passive Sampling as a Method for Pesticide Analysis

Congratulations to all of the students from the Honors Program who presented at the URCA Symposium on your hard work and dedication!

To read the student abstracts and see photos from the event, go to: http://ashlandurca.blogspot.com/