Photo Albums

Wassim Labaki '08 listens to a question during the Celebration of Student Research. Wassim had a poster presentation titled: Research Toward Medicinal Silicon Biochips: Functionalization and Degradation of Oxidized Porous Silicon Immersed in Simulated Acellular Plasma (blood). Lon Porter, Sponsor.

Mark Server '06 listens to Dr. Lon Porter, left, and another student in discussion about his project: Glucose Tolerance in Rats Given Repeated Glucose Injections during Infancy. Carl Thompson, sponsor.

Gabriel Surface '06 talks about his poster presentation with Carl Thompson during a crowded period in Detchon Hall: Memory Suggestibility Under Stress. Preston Bost, sponsor.

Alex Nolan '08 explains: Beta-Amino Acids: A study in the Helices Formed to Brad Weaver. Paul LePlae, sponsor.

Philip Ramilo '07 pauses between visitors for a photo with his artwork displayed at the Celebration of Student Research. Of his project he wrote: "This project is mainly an autobiography of paintings that use specific images to convey events, themes, emotions and ideas." Greg Huebner, sponsor.

The Sixth Annual Celebration of Student Research, Scholarship, and Creative Work drew a large crowd all afternoon of students, faculty/staff, alumni, and members of the NAWM on campus, as well as members of the Board of Trustees.

J.J. Anagnostou ’07 talks with Ivan Settimba ’06 about his research on the "Clonal Origin of Mature Teratomas." Anagnostou conducted the research as an intern last summer as part of a team at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis.

Andrew Hoffman ’06 explains the research he and Ben Abratigue ’07 completed as they collected, classified, recorded, and mapped plants for a "Floristic Survey of Allee Woods." The project, sponsored by biology professor Amanda Ingram, marked the first time the College's "old growth" for had been catalogued since the mid-1970s. Photo by Fran Raycroft ’06

"Gluttony is a Sin?" was the title of senior Justin Herd's poster presentation, sponsored by religion professor Steve Webb ’83. "My work examines how, since gluttony is hardly considered a sin in the modern era, people have become less spiritual in their day-to-day lives," Herd explained.

Taylor Poor ’06 signs the Celebration Program for Chem 101 students after explaining the research he and Kevin Meyer ’06 conducted with chemistry professor Lon Porter on the "Convenient Synthesis of Triboluminescent Crystals in a Conventional Microwave Oven."

Philip Ramilo ’07 discusses his paintings with political science professor Melissa Butler. Ramilo said that the paintings, which include lettering in tagalog, the language of Ramilo's native Phillipines, "illustrate how my past experiences and decisions affect my present actions and feelings."

Biology professor Eric Wetzel takes a closer look at sophomore Wassim Labaki's "Research Toward Medicinal Silicon Biochips."

Joe  Cooper '07 shows his Present Indiana Project on Indiana's Historic Theatres to Board of Trustee member John Fox. David Clapp, sponsor.

President Andy Ford may have found particular interest in Greg Strodtman's '07 project titled: The Molding of memory: How an Authority Figure Controls What We Think. Michelle Rhoades, sponsor.

Austin Crowder introduces his short story, "Big Fish, Little Tank." The reading was sponsored by Professor of English Marc Hudson.