The Student Symposium is the culminating academic event of the year.
The symposium series begins with each department’s symposiums, which showcase their upper-division students’ research projects, service engagement, creative work, and other achievements. The very best of those presentations are then invited to present at the final Student Symposium. These presentations, always an impressive display of active learning in action, are judged by an interdisciplinary panel of faculty. The evaluation criteria include creative, critical and integrative thinking, as well as oral communication and visual literacy.
Judging for the 2021 Student Symposium was Friday April 23, from 1:00 – 4:00 pm. Due to the Covid pandemic, it was a hybrid of in-person and virtual input. You can watch the Livestream here.
The 2021 Student Symposium Winners
1st Place
Armor’s Ashes
Hannah Fridholm
$2,500 Prize
2nd Place (tie)
Designer Flows: Working with Dams Until We Can Tear Them Down
Kara Campbell
$1,200 Prize
Walking With My Sisters: A Documentary
Emily Tessmer
$1,200 Prize
3rd Place
Liberation NOT Loss
Dejaneri Maestas
$650 Prize
The Participants
Business Department
BellCow BioCycling
Luke Pedersen and Caden Hansen
Humanities and Social Sciences Department
Designer Flows: Working with Dams Until We Can Tear Them Down
Kara Campbell
A Wanderer’s Way
Clayton Coates
The Impact of Facial and Neck Tattoos on Perceived Intimacy
Breahna Dunsing
Walking With My Sisters: A Documentary
Emily Tessmer
Fine Arts Department
Armor’s Ashes
Hannah Fridholm
Liberation NOT Loss
Dejaneri Maestas
Performance
Courtney Ropp
Science Department
Nutrient Diffusing Substrata Limitation in Periphyton Growth from Headwaters to Basepoint in Lake Tahoe Streams
Hunter T. Allen
The Effects of Prescribed Burns on Saplings and Fire Suppression in the North Lake Tahoe Basin
José Ortiz
The Judges
- Jonathan Breiter (Business)
- Richard Gire (Business)
- Chris Lanier (Fine Arts)
- Sheri Leigh O’Connor (Fine Arts)
- Robert King (Humanities and Social Sciences)
- Jim Scripps (Humanities and Social Sciences)
- Brielle Bjorke (Science and Technology)
- Suzanne Gollery (Science and Technology)