Join us to share the findings of the Session II Richter Scholars at the 2021 Richter Scholars Symposium. This day-long event features the results of the independent, individual research of first-year Scholars with the mentorship of Lake Forest College faculty. Join for the whole day or attend a session or two of interest.
8:30 a.m.
Latina Entrepreneurship Study: Identifying Local Latina Entrepreneurs & Uncovering Pain Points
Nikki Garcia
Kate Jackson, Interim Director of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program
8:55 a.m.
Molecular Mechanisms of Injury-induced Neurodegeneration
Majo Orozco Fuentes, Otoha Tatami
Rebecca Delventhal, Assistant Professor of Biology
9:25 a.m.
Do Words Matter? The Impact of Gendered Language on Women’s Application to STEM and Non-STEM Job Opportunities
Farhan Ahmed, Megan Yim
Cassondra Batz-Barbarich, Assistant Professor of Business
9:55 a.m.
Researching Sci-Fi and Fantasy Fiction with an Eye to Teaching Diversity and Inclusion
Demetra Tsakos
Carla Arnell, Professor of English
10:30 a.m.
How Does the Host Defend Itself Against Tuberculosis?
Beau Henry Grimes, Ceylin Sahin
William Conrad, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
11:00 a.m.
Patterns in Salt Limitation of Ant Communities
Marina Strong
Sean Menke, Associate Professor of Biology
11:25 a.m.
Removing Environmentally Persistent Pharmaceuticals from Wastewater
Emma Clay-Barbour Giselle Schiet
Erica Schultz, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
1:00 p.m.
The Geometry of Love: Annotating the Arthurian Poetry of Charles Williams
Jack Farrell
Carla Arnell, Professor of English
1:25 p.m.
Le Data
Malek Elaghel
Arthur Bousquet, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
1:50 p.m.
Restricted Chicago: Housing Discrimination and Educational Disparities in Chicagoland Area
Hayley Headley, Aarti Singh
Desmond Odugu, Associate Professor of Education
2:20 p.m.
Cholinergic Mechanisms of Pavlovian Conditioned Approach Behavior in Rats
Kotryna Andriuskeviciute, Wambui Kahende, Lael Medema
Jean-Marie Maddux, Assistant Professor of Psychology
2:55 p.m.
Insight into Parkinson’s Disease: How Three New Mutants of Alpha-Synuclein May Cause Disease
Amanda Grassel
Shubhik DebBurman, Disque D. and Carol Gram Deane Professor of Biological Sciences
3:30 p.m.
Fish Biomechanics and Sensory Systems
Violet Anderson Djurdjina Jovanovic
Margot Schwalbe, Assistant Professor of Biology
4:00 p.m.
The Final Countdown: Determining the End Nucleotide of the Chromosome’s Telomeres
Natalie Kamau, Meklit Yimenu
Karen Kirk, Professor of Biology
4:30 p.m.
Evolutionary Trade-offs Between Flight and Sexually-selected Traits in Beetles
Beth Defoe, Iman Shepard
Flavia Barbosa, Assistant Professor of Biology
5:00 p.m.
How to Prevent Tuberculosis with Synthetic Biology
Laurel Robbins, Gabrielle Vineyard
William Conrad, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Registration is no longer available.
