Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Each year, Benedictine College cancels its classes and meetings to allow for students and faculty to attend Discovery Day, a day of learning focused on student projects that have been researched outside of the classroom. More than 3000 students have participated in Benedictine’s Discovery Day since its inception in 1996. In that time, most faculty members and academic departments have taken an active role in sponsoring student projects. This year's Discovery Day will take place virtually, and you can find all the available sessions using the schedule below.
All times are in Central Daylight Time.
8:30-9:35 a.m.
Microgravity Effects on the Adrenal Morphology of Mus Muscularis
Ryan Werdel
8:30-9:35 a.m.
College Students’ Perceptions of Smoking Versus Vaping
Madison Haberman
8:30-9:35 a.m.
Cycling Towards Health
Hannah Hafner
8:30-9:35 a.m.
Renewable Polymers for Osteogenic Scaffolding and Bone Repair
Noah Hermes
8:30-9:35 a.m.
A Survey of Winter Birds at the Atchison State Fishing Lake and Benedictine Bottoms
Richard Hernandez
8:30-9:35 a.m.
Testing Cell Phone Screen Protectors
Jubilee Horton
8:30-9:35 a.m.
How COVID-19 Has Affected Benedictine Student’s and Faculty’s Mental Health
Bridget Howard
8:30-9:35 a.m.
Effects of Microgravity Conditions on Mouse Antral Follicle Development
John Paul Wick
8:30-9:35 a.m.
Femtosecond Laser Temperature Stabilization
Matthew Krishnan Myjak
8:30-9:35 a.m.
Culture Within Us: How Our COVID-19 Experience Reflects Our Countries’ Norms
Brigid McCormack
8:30-9:35 a.m.
Parasitic Nematodes Effect on Grasslands
Aubree Morriss
9:45-10:05 a.m.
Production of a Glass Fusing Kiln and a Reflector Telescope
Gregory Bourget
9:45-10:05 a.m.
A Place to Bee-Long: Pollinator Habitat Conservation in Atchison
Julia Izzo
9:45-10:05 a.m.
The Adoption of Religious Tolerance in the American Colonies
Tatumn Holland
9:45-10:05 a.m.
Effectiveness of Benedictine College’s Intervention Policies to COVID-19
Yi Kang
9:45-10:05 a.m.
Atchison Bread Company
Katelyn Bishop
9:45-10:05 a.m.
Augustine’s Confessions Graphic Novel Adaptation
Jacob Taylor
10:15-10:35 a.m.
Quantum Dot Synthesis and Design
Filipe Nunes
10:15-10:35 a.m.
The Relationship Between Background Colors and Chromatophores in Fiddler Crabs
Kendall Dolan
10:15-10:35 a.m.
Women Lost to History
Mary Grace Raciti
10:15-10:35 a.m.
Flattening the Curve: Exploring Cultural Worldview and Trust in Science as Correlates of COVID-19 Responses
Anna Lingor
10:15-10:35 a.m.
Meal Plan Madness
Theresa Fischer
10:15-10:35 a.m.
Popular Film, the Church and What Love is Meant to Be: An Analysis on Popular Film’s Portrayal of Romantic Love in Light of the Catholic Vision
Madeline Joerger
10:45-11:05 a.m.
Construction and Launch of High Power Rockets
Connor Muehler
10:45-11:05 a.m.
Enhancing Inclusion of Colorblind Individuals in Science
Audrey Hartweck
10:45-11:05 a.m.
An Uncomfortable Past: American and German Memoria to a History of Oppression, Murder, and Racism
Miriam Miller
10:45-11:05 a.m.
The Effects of Empathy on Attitudes Towards Mask Wearing
Sarah Newbolds
10:45-11:05 a.m.
Bring the Heat: The Rediscovery of a Heat Resistant Polymer
Zachary Zimmer
10:45-11:05 a.m.
Letterpress Printing
Conrad Criddle
11:15 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.
Enantioseparation of Carbocaine Utilizing Ionic Liquid Chromatography Columns
Catherine Branstetter
11:15 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.
Do ZZZs Get Degrees?
Nancy Pecha
11:15 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.
Benedictine Objective Maps
Benjamin Ptak
11:15 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.
Effect of Hindlimb Unloading on Uteri Histology From Mus Muscularis
Erin Rauber
11:15 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.
Pulsed Laser Theory and Restoration
Leo Santucci
11:15 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.
Effects of Sunscreen on Freshwater Plant Growth
Leah Sattler
11:15 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.
Evaluation of the Impact of a Microgravity Environment on the Vaginal and Uterine Tissue of Mus Muscularis
Peter Schultz
11:15 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.
The Effects of COVID-19 Related Stress on the Menstrual Cycle
Sarah Schwinn
11:15 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.
In Their Footsteps: A Map of Quo Vadis
Virginia Jarvis
11:15 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.
Reduce, Refuel, Refire: The Thermodynamic Process of a Smokeless Campfire Pit
Jack Burke
Rebekah Taussig | 1:00-2:20 p.m. CDT
Rebekah Taussig is a Kansas City-area writer and teacher with doctoral degrees in Creative Nonfiction and Disability Studies. She has led workshops at Yale University, the University of Michigan, and Davidson College on disability representation, identity, and community. Her work appears in publications from TIME to Design*Sponge.
2:35-2:55 p.m.
Luminescent Solar Concentrators and the Harvest of Solar Energy
Joseph Wiechelman
2:35-2:55 p.m.
Tweet Tweet What Will You Eat?: Seed Preferences of Northeastern Kansas Wild Birds Species
Madeline Jones
2:35-2:55 p.m.
How Do We Learn From and Live With Damaged Heritage?
Emily Sanderlin
2:35-2:55 p.m.
The Effects of Foreign and Native Lyrical Music on Short-Term Memory
Liliana Pokropski
2:35-2:55 p.m.
The Future Poison: Selectively Removing Arsenate in Our Water Systems Using a Responsive Probe to Enable Environmental Phosphate Recycle Systems
Natalie Smaron
2:35-2:55 p.m.
Original Music for The Tempest
Laura Kazmer
3:05-3:25 p.m.
Developing Mission-Critical Software for the James Webb Space Telescope
Daniel Lopez-Sanders
3:05-3:25 p.m.
Ultraviolet Light Water Filtration System
Rebekah Nelson
3:05-3:25 p.m.
“The Mouth of the South”: Martha Mitchell, A Woman Buried
Rafaela Perez
3:05-3:25 p.m.
Color Preference and Politics: A Longitudinal Study
Julia Fassero
3:05-3:25 p.m.
The Improved Ergonomics of a Large Potato Cannon
Joseph Crouch
3:05-3:25 p.m.
Teleology and Therese of Lisieux: A Reflection on Death and Suffering in the Modern World
Christopher Rziha
3:35-3:55 p.m.
Spectroscopic and Photometric Monitoring of RV Tauri and SRd Variable Stars at Daglen Observatory
Joshua Heinerikson
3:35-3:55 p.m.
Investigating Food-Borne Antibiotic Resistance
Samantha Pichardo
3:35-3:55 p.m.
Nuclear Strategy: What’s Changed Since Hiroshima?
Peter Hockel
3:35-3:55 p.m.
BREATHE: A Virtual Community Serving Individuals With Exceptionalities
Charles Semanko
3:35-3:55 p.m.
CNC Machine Re-Design
Marco Kouatly
3:35-3:55 p.m.
Printing Press Edition
Monica McGovern
4:05-4:25 p.m.
Authentic Christian Culture
Olivia Shingledecker
4:05-4:25 p.m.
HAVOC
Cecelia Richardson
4:05-4:25 p.m.
Suppressed Voices: Narcotrafficking’s Influence on Daily Mexican Life
David Torres
4:05-4:25 p.m.
Tragedy: To Start a Conversation
Benjamin Walter
4:05-4:25 p.m.
Design of CNC Laser Cutter
Maximilian Davy
4:05-4:25 p.m.
Artmaking + Planner Organization: Exploring Reactions to a Creative and Sustainable Form of Self-Care
Rachel Segura