Jacksonville, AL –Per the Director of Strategic Communications for JSU, Buffy Lockette, seventy students from all campuses, from diverse disciplines, displayed their artistic and academic works in the JSU Student Symposium. JSU Student Symposium on Feb. 13-14.
Every year since 1995 this event has given students with the chance to display your work within a formal context with their classmates, teachers and staff. Then, at the conclusion of the event’s duration an expert panel determines the winners of awards in various categories. The students who were honored at a special event at the Merrill Hall atrium on Feb. 14.
Best of College Awards
- Arts and Humanities undergrad: Alexzandria Quintero, “Pushing Perfection & Pain: The “Model Minority Myth Hurts Asian Americans”
- Arts and Humanities Graduation: Ashley Himmler, “Krishna, Christ, and the fullness of Human Life”
- Industry and Business Industry Undergraduate: Sara Adkinson, “The CBD Industry: A silently growing giant”
- Health Professions and Wellness Graduating: Rubyn Johnson, “Fluid Periodization A New Approach to Sport Performance”
- Sciences and Mathematical undergrad: Hunter Ballard and Alyssa Jones, “Investigation of TCOF1 Variations A New Perspective on Treacher Collins Syndrome”
- Sciences and Maths, Graduation: Kindall Brown, “The Relationship between the Changes in Land Cover and Macroinvertebrate Diversity over 20 years at Choccolocco Creek, Northeast Alabama”
- Sociology and Behavior Sciences undergraduate: Madalyn Stott, “Barriers to Justice: The necessity to American Prison Reform”
The Best Papers
- undergrad: Sophia Ajemba, “Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Federal Revenue from Sales Tax”
- Graduate: Hannah Davis, “Fastest Velocity: JSU Fastballs”
The Best Posters
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Student: Hannah Cornett, “Analysis of the Student’s Learning Experience Through Elegiac Writing”
- Graduating: Margaret Walton, “Using ArcGIS Software and Applications for Community Mapping”
The Best Showcases
- undergrad: Riley Abston, “The Sign of the Four” Book design
- Graduating: Conner Gayda, “Typography, Baseball as well as the Fight for Civil Rights”
Top of the Showcase Anthony Wapshott, “How an Invasive Asiatic Clam Species Effects the Morphology of Sternotherus Ooratus”
Best Design of Cover: Carlie Benefield
Houston Cole Library Award for Research Excellence: Greta Romei, “The Effectiveness of Caffeine in the Performance of Exercise”
The student presentations can be viewed on JSU’s Student Symposium’s YouTube channel. The program for the event is accessible on the internet.
