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The Sweet Briar Promise outlines our distinctive approach for providing meaningful, enduring education for women. It includes:
The 11th annual Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference of Undergraduate Scholarship, also known as MARCUS, will be held Saturday, Oct. 10 at the Florence Elston Inn & Conference Center at Sweet Briar College.
Washington and Lee student Andrew Tessier presents his research at the 2008 conference.One hundred thirty-one students — the most ever to
attend a MARCUS conference — will present papers and posters on research topics
in the sciences, humanities, social sciences and interdisciplinary studies.
They represent 19 colleges and universities, including Sweet Briar.
The following Sweet Briar students will present papers and/or posters. Most conducted their research this past summer as part of the College’s Honors Summer Research Program.
Lara Slough ’10 — “Various Aspects of Feeding in the Chain Catshark, Scyliorhinus retifer"
Courtney Cunningham ’10 — “In Pursuit of Godliness: Deification of Mortals in Ancient Greece”
Tania Salas-Platt ’10 — “Bringing Delores Veintimilla to Life”
Zehra Asghar ’10 — “Varying Discourses of Romantic Love in Lucknow, India”
Tiffany Rapetsky ’11 — “Can I Call Him Crusty? Translating Ana Maria Matute’s ‘Carnavalito’ ”
MaryAnne Haslow-Hall ’11 — “Developing a Low Cost and Easily Manufactured Prosthetic Hand”
Nancy Drew ’10 — “Network Models for Influenza Spread and Interventions in Schools”
Maggie Mae Nase ’10 — “The Daisy Project: Turning Speculative Fact into a Scholarly Biography”
Laura Hanold ’10 — The Synthesis and Photochemistry of 3(2H)-Furanones”
Sarah Strapp ’10 — “Scriptorium: The Makings of an Apprentice”
Faculty, other students, and guests may continue to register for MARCUS until noon on Friday, Oct. 2. Conference attendees who do not register by the Oct. 2 deadline are welcome to attend the conference and register at the door, but lunch will not be included.
For more information, or to register, visit the conference Web site.
