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On May 1, 2009, students from Salem State College joined others from eighteen campuses across the Commonwealth--Bridgewater State College, Bristol Community College, Bunker Hill Community College, Cape Cod Community College, Fitchburg State College, Framingham State College, Holyoke Communuty College, Massachusetts College of the Liberal Arts, Massasoit Community College, North Shore Community College, Quinsigamond Community College, UMass.-Amherst, UMass.-Boston, UMass.-Dartmouth, UMass.-Lowell, Westfield State College, and Worcester State--for the 15th annual Undergraduate Research Conference held at the Campus Center of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. |
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Dr. Aaron Lazare, Chancellor/Dean Emeritus of the UMass. Medical Center gave the keynote address. |
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Briana McConnell with "The Pocket-Sized Pump Guide" |
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Barry Braun, Associate Professor of Kinesiology and Director of the UMass. Energy Metabolism Lab, also spoke. |
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Jackie Morton's poster presentation: "Anorxia, Preconception Counseling, and Prgenancy: What Nurses Need to Know" |
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Jackie Morton |
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Kristina Maglio's poster presentation: "Senior Nursing Students' Understanding of Evidence-Based Practice" |
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Leah Leonard's Poster Presentation |
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Matt O'Connell and Glenn Holmes listen to Kiera Lyon's talk, "The Transition from Realism to Modernism: A Comparative Study of the Novels of Virginia Wolff |
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Kiera Lyons |
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Christina Peura's topic: "The Effects of Mobilization on the Coexistence of Democracy and Socialism in Latin America" |
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Shari Caplan, Keira Lyons, and Tracey Martin take questions after their three talks. |
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Honors Program Coordinator Joanna Gonsalves organized Salem State College's successful presence at the Conference. |
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Professor Scott Nowka with three of his students: Sarah Cummings, Jennifer Dulong, and Shari Caplan |
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Matt O'Connell read from his project in creative nonfictio, "Letters from the North Shore and Other Correspondence" |
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Fiction writer Sariah Armstrong of Fitchburg State and Matt O'Connell field questions. |
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Professor Rod Kessler visits Samantha Lewis's poster featuring highlights of Red Skies, Salem State's ezine. |
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Samantha Lewis's senior project built on her experience as editor-in-chief of RED SKIES (www.salemstate.edu/redskies). Her advisor was Perry Glasser. |
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Jessica Herrick majored in Social Work |
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Glenn Holmes at lunch in the Campus Center |
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Hajia Abubakar and Tosin (Akinbebije Adewale) at lunch. |
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Tosin Adewale compared childbirth practices in Nigeria and the United States. |
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Sarah Cummings took up the question of Jack Kerouac and Masculinity |
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Jennifer Dulong read a paper "Eliza Haywood and her Feminized Fantasy World" |
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Professor Nowka also served as a driver |
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The Conference is sponsored by the Commonwealth Honors Council and by Commonwealth College at the University of Massachusetts. It is a requirement of the Salem State Honors Program to present one's senior honors project at some public forum. |
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There was a little time for sight-seeing. Professor Gonsalves was an Honors Program undergraduate on this campus just a few years ago. |
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Photo duties were shared among us all, but it was fun to give Rod Kessler a taste of his own medicine. |
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Jennifer DuLong, Matt O'Connell, Keira Lyons, Tina Perua, Scott Nowka, Sarah Cummings, Shari Caplan, Rod Kessler, Joanna Gonsalves |
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