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“Works of Our Hands Week” Features Geneva Students' Academic Partners Projects

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Honors Students Present Research Projects on a Wide Variety of Topics

(BEAVER FALLS, Pa.) – Eight Geneva College Honors students presented their Academic Partners Projects during “Works of Our Hands Week,” April 24-28, 2017. 

The Academic Partners Program provides an opportunity for academic collaboration and mentoring between junior or senior students and faculty members. Meeting with their mentors regularly, students prepare a research project on a topic of interest in their field of study.  After in-depth research and preparation, these students professionally present their projects during “Works of Our Hands Week.”

This year, the Honors Programs at Geneva College present:

“The Perfect Pairing: Young Adult Literature to Teach the Classics”
By: Macy Jaskiewicz
Major: Secondary English Education
When: Monday, April 24, 2017 at 4 p.m.
Where: NW 008

“Dragons in Western Literature”
By: Bethany Campbell
Major: English Literature
When: Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 7 p.m.
Where: West Reading Room, McCartney Library

“Analysis of Carotenoid Synthesis in Pedobacter heparinus”
By: Belle Henry
Major: Biochemistry
When: Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 7 p.m.
Where: S&E 317

“Language Learning and Suprasegmentals”
By: Joohyang Sharon Kim
Major: Language and Culture
When: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 4 p.m.
Where: OM 024

“Rhetoric of the Psalms”
By: Michael Kearney
Major: Communication
When: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 6:30 p.m.
Where: JWC

“Genomic Analysis in Hypervariable Regions”
By: Ken Kutcel
Major: Biology
When: Friday, April 28, 2017 at 10:10 a.m.
Where: S&E 317

“Religion in the Public Sphere: An Analysis of Jürgen Habermas”
By: Zack Bowman
Major: Philosophy/Theory of Culture
When: Friday, April 28, 2017 at 2:30 p.m.
Where: NW 213

“Navigating The Tempest: Teaching Shakespeare Using The Wednesday Wars”
By: Katherine Yoder
Major: English Education
When: Friday, April 28, 2017 at 4:30 p.m.
Where: OM 024

Geneva College is a Christ-centered academic community that provides a comprehensive education to equip students for faithful and fruitful service to God and neighbor. Offering over 40 traditional undergraduate majors and programs, Adult Degree Programs with fully online and classroom options, and high-demand graduate degrees, Geneva's programs are recognized for their high quality. U.S. News & World Report ranks Geneva as a Top Three Best Value Regional University with one of the Top 100 engineering programs in the nation. Adhering to the truth of Scripture, a Geneva education is grounded in God’s Word as well as in a core curriculum designed to prepare students vocationally to think, write and communicate well in today’s world.

Apr 24, 2017