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For Immediate Release
April 4 , 2008
nwu research symposium to highlight student-faculty collaborative research
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska Wesleyan University senior Vanessa Martinez will return from Costa Rica this week where she’s working on a translation project that will inevitably bring the voices of new narrators to non-Spanish speakers in the United States.
Senior Justin Lana spent a summer conducting historical research in Ghana, which is the first written account of the rural Ghanaian land system. And forensic science students Brenda Rohren and Lori Scott have investigated the correlation of substance abuse, domestic abuse and criminal history.
These students will join six others and their professors to share their experiences and describe their research at the University’s first NWU Research Symposium scheduled for Thursday, April 17 at 4 p.m.
The symposium will feature presentations by the recipients of the Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Fund, which was created to fund student research or other scholarly projects in collaboration or mentored by faculty. The fund was created through a $1 million estate gift. Since its start in 2006, 19 students have taken advantage of this fund.
Both oral and poster presentations will be shared in Callen Conference Center and Great Hall, located in the Smith-Curtis Administration Building.
The symposium is free and open to the public.
The following is a presentation schedule:
NWU Research Symposium
4 p.m., “Introducing the New Narrators of Costa Rica: A Project in Literacy Translation” by Vanessa Martinez
4:20 p.m., “Correlation of Substance Abuse, Domestic Abuse and Criminal History: Implications in Forensic Science” by Brenda Rohren and Lori Scott
4:40 p.m., “Who Owns the Land? The Transmission of Land and Adjudication of Land in Rural Ghana” by Justin Lana
5 p.m., “Fieldwork as Pedagogy” by Nicole Francavilla
5:20 p.m., “Electoral Support of Communist/Marxist Parties Within India” by Desereé Johnston
5:40 p.m., “An Investigation of the Relationship of the Endogenous Opioid and Ethanol Using Opioid Receptor Antagonist, Naloxonazine" by Kate Williams.
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