Wednesday, April 17
The goal of the event is to showcase the scholarship of graduating seniors and other students, and allow faculty, staff, and the community the opportunity to view the outstanding academic achievements happening at Siena Heights. It is free and open to the community.
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Keynote Speaker, Alejandro Quiroga, MD, MBA
President of Corewell Health West
“Unlocking Potential: A Journey Through How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Health Care“
Dr. Quiroga’s presentation will connect to our university theme of “ALEXA: Can A.I. Serve the Common Good?” and is co-sponsored by the Chiodini Fontana Lecture Series on Ethics.
Schedule
9 a.m. – Dr. Wendy Crosby, Scholarship Symposium Chair, Welcome
Dr. Wendy Crosby, Introduction of Speaker
Sr. Mary Jones, Prayer
Keynote Address from Dr. Ale Quiroga in the Music Hall and on Teams
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. – Poster Presentations in the Library
Click on the link below for a list of participants.
1:00-3:15 p.m. – Presentations
Rueckert Auditorium | DH 203 | DH 205 | Studio Angelico: Studio 2 | PAC: Stubnitz Lab Theatre | |
1:00-1:45pm | McNair Scholars (Continuous Session from 1:00-2:30pm) Click on the link above for a list of participants. | Communications Audrey Crawford: “Behind the Scenes: Presentation of Self in Celebrity Documentaries” Mercedes Starr: “Beyond the Rim: How People Made the Grand Canyon so Grand” Ashlyn Turner: “Into the Future: The Influence of Pictorialism on Modern Artificial Intelligence” | English Makayla Gardner: “Decoding The Importance of Being Earnest” Sophie Zelek: “Historically Hysterical – Through Life and Literature” | Engineering Larry Keck: “Screw tightening with a FANUC arm” | |
1:45-2:30pm | Communications Brendan Zeipekis: “You Reap What You Sow: Religion and Organizational Culture” Julia Hogston: “Society’s Impact on Spanish Literature” | History Jacob Brown: “The Effects of Funding in Museums” Paul Plassman: “Battle Reports of Civil War Generals at the Battle of Antietam” | English/Theater Madison Hawk: “Women of Fiction: A Collection of Monologues” | ||
2:30-3:15pm | Communications Braden Britt: “Genre Out of Time: The S. Craigh Zahler Trilogy” (documentary screening and Q&A) | Math Jay Lugo: “Modeling and Printing Solids from Calculus II ‘Volume by Slicing’ Problems” | History Matthew Scally: “How Nahuatl Has Survived” Dalton vasBinder: “Historical Diets of the Indigenous Population found in the Great Lakes Region” |
All Day – Online Self-Guided Presentations
All are welcome to stop by the new Multimedia Center located in the library to see where these podcasts were made.