2024 Scholarship Symposium

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.

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 AuditoriumDH 203DH 205Studio Angelico: Studio 2PAC: Stubnitz Lab Theatre
1:00-1:45pmMcNair 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”
1:45-2:30pmCommunications
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”
2:30-3:15pmCommunications
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

Criminal Justice Podcasts

All are welcome to stop by the new Multimedia Center located in the library to see where these podcasts were made.