Students present findings from Summer Research

Summer Research poster presentations in the Hampson Commons

Randolph students participating in the 2017 Summer Research program presented the results of eight weeks’ worth of lab work, cultural and sociological studies, innovative teaching strategies, and environmental research today during the Summer Research Program Symposium. Several groups have also been invited to present their work at national conferences within the next year.

Avisha Shah ’18 (right) demonstrates how virtual reality could be used as a classroom tool

Participating students and their projects included:

• Lisa White ’18: “The Meaning of Political Mobilization: Who Are We and Why Are We Protesting Donald Trump?”
• Drucilla Williams ’18: “Lipid Fingerprinting for Hair Analysis”
• Dung Nguyen ’18 and Avisha Shah ’18: “Developing Virtual Reality as an Educational and Research Tool”
• Jasmine Fowler ’20: “What Do You See? Sharing Unseen Patterns with Children”
• Adam Nguyen ’19: “Interactive Visualization of Activity and Location Data for Functional Assessment and Caregiver Effectiveness in an Alzheimer’s Population”
• Skylar Pippin ’19 and Igor Ngabo ’18: “Teaching Math and Science in a Changing World”
• Tyrah Cobb-Davis ’19 and Libby Exline ’19: “Using Artificial Seagrass Beds to Study Restoration”
• Lauren Moore ’18 and Alex Wieczorek ’19: “The Meaning of Political Mobilization: Media Construction of Public Opposition to the Trump Administration”
• Taylor Samuels ’18: “Digitizing the First-Year Seminar Prescheduling”
• Shataaxi Joshi ’19 and Arnav Upadhyay ’19: “Resilient Randolph: Analyzing Risks and Establishing Measurable Strategies for Campus-Community Climate Resilience”
• Zach Pennix ’18: “Where Did All the Radicals Go? Examining the Evolution of Anti-Drug Activism in the South Bronx from 1965-1985”
• Nour Elkhamra ’17: “The House of Anne: Cataloging and Teaching the Contributions of Anne Spencer”