URECA Celebration Schedule:

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Wednesday - May 7 - Student Activities Center (SAC)

URECA POSTER EXHIBITION - SAC Ballroom A 
Session I: 10 am-12 pm; Session II: 1-3 pm

*Index of Posters/ exhibits.
URECA’s Celebration of Undergraduate Research & Creativity features undergraduate research posters, talks, senior design projects; and a showcase of VIP/Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP)!   Join us in recognizing the accomplishments of undergraduates working with faculty in all disciplines. All are welcome to attend! 

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VIP-URECA Showcase  - SAC Ballroom B- 12 - 2 pm 
Showcase of Vertically Integrated Projects!

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CAREER CENTER Internship Showcase -  SAC Auditorium - 12-2 pm

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Psychology/Psi Chi Symposium : SAC 302 - 12:45 pm - 1:15 pm

• View Psi Chi Schedule

  12:45  “To Talk or Not To Talk: How Rapport-Building Influences Trust and Deception”
  Laura Ladekarl. Faculty mentor: Dr. Andrea Pittarello
  
  1:00  Startle Potentiation to Threat Differentiates Emotional and Behavioral/Thought Dysfunction Dimensions of Psychopathology
  Mandy Habashi. Faculty mentor: Dr. Brady Nelson

Writing & Rhetoric Symposium - Dr. Shyam Sharma : SAC 306 - 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

• View Writing & Rhetoric Presentations (Schedule TBA)

  Ara San Antonio	A Rhetorical Analysis of President Duterte’s Diction on the Philippine War on Drugs
  Ari Azoulay	How a nation is addressed in crisis
  Bridget Donohue	Diversity Without Depth: A Rhetorical Analysis of Stony Brook University’s DEI Policy
  Ernesto Henriquez	TBA
  Laiba Rajput	The Rhetoric of Partition: Analyzing Jinnah’s 1940 Presidential Address in Light of Modern Pakistani and Indian Sentiments
  Moeez Ahmed	The Ethical persuasion of physicians forcing pills down patients throats, Diving into unnecessary prescriptions and its costs.
  Remy O'Keefe	Empowerment or Exploitation? Rhetorical and Ethical Analysis of Hims & Hers’ Weight Loss Advertising
  Sam Sanso	“The Invitational Rhetoric of Vietnam-era Zippo Lighters”
  Stephanie Sukhraj	Perceptions and Usage  of AI in Educational Systems
  Vishranth Arun Kumar	The Rhetoric of Right to Repair: Can Durability Be Separated From Consumer Exploitation
  Viviana Francucci	A Message of Kindness Born Through Pain
  Ziyan Tung	Young Women’s Perception of Femininity: To See Beyond the Definition and Expressions of Femininity from a Patriarchal Root

 

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**Additional Celebrations:

For additional events highlighting undergraduate research & creativity happening around the time of   the URECA Celebration, see also:

 

URECA ART EXHIBITION:
April 24-May8, Zuccaire Gallery
Opening reception: April 24, 4:30-6 pm

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HONORS  Senior Symposium
April 29 (Tuesday)-Union Ballroom
4:00pm-5:30 pm, 7:00 pm-8:30pm

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May events (week of CELEBRATION):

Tuesday May 6 

Department of History/ URECA Conference-SBS N-320 
11:00 Welcome; Session 1: 11: 15-noon; Session 2: 12:15-1:15; Session 3: 2:15-3:15; Session 4: 330: 4:30; 4:45-Awards presentation.

• View Schedule - History Department Symposium

   Link to PDF program for History Conference

   

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Thursday, May 8 - 12 - 2pm

CEAS Senior Design Showcase - SAC Ballroom A
*Participating programs: BME, CIV, CME, ECE, ESG, MEC

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Friday May 9 - Time TBA 

ENGLISH Department Symposium - Poetry Center, 
Humanities Bldg.(HUM 2001)
Session 1: 1:00-2:30; Session 2: 3:40-5:00

 

• View schedule - English Department Symposium

  Session 1: 2-3:20

  Anastasija Petrovska, “Audience Abjection within Art” (Dir. Celia Marshik)

  Sara Varghese, “Salvation is an Unlocked Cell: The Colonial Weaponization of Christianity and Ethnocultural Isolation of Malayalees in Kerala” (Dir. E.K. Tan)

  Alisha Raza, “Revenge, Identity, and Transformation: A Comparative Study of Nolan’s Batman and Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo” (Dir. Michael Tondre)

  Madison Ohringer, “Echoes of Silence: Reclaiming the Histories of Women of Color” (Dir. Neisha Terry Young)

  Samantha Raic, “Fear of Femininity: The Dismemberment of the Female Body in Contemporary Horror” (Dir. Scott Koski)

  Esme Warmuth, “Aesthetics, Darkness, & Deviance: Modern Campus Fiction & The Tarttian Sublime” (Dir. Michael Tondre) 

  Break: 3:20-3:40

  Session 2: 3:40-5

  Christopher Wong, “Exploring the East Asian Midwest Aesthetic: Challenging the Conventional “Heartland” Through Food” (Dir. Timothy August)

  Kathryn Viola, “Women, Madness, & The Gothic Novel: Portrayal and Treatment of Mental Illness in Jane Eyre, and The Yellow Wallpaper” (Dir. Michael Tondre)

  Ryan Grolz, “Teaching Survivance: “Even if it Didn’t Happen”: A Vizenorian Reading of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for Secondary Education” (Dir. David Weiden)

  Daniel S. Hart, IV, “Transhumanism through Fiction: Atwood, DeLillo, and Ishiguro Exploring What Can Be from What Has Been” (Dir. Andrew Flescher)

  Mehwish Hasan, “Orientalism, Assimilation, and Post 9/11 Cultural Anxiety in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series” (Dir Simone Brioni)

  Reception: 5-5:30