Of 13 students from Hendrix, three gave oral presentations, two honored in the Top 10 for poster presentations
Some of the Hendrix College community members who attended the Ninth Annual Arkansas Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium. Front row: Dr. Andrew Schurko, Caroline Tackett, Katie Diekman, Isabel Ritter, Cierra Daniels, Joey Beard, Victoria Ortega, Dr. Andrea Duina. Back row: Avery Olmstead, Kendal Rainey, Kaitlyn Gilkey, Dillon Simmons, Elijah Dilday, Nate Lemke, Faris Musallam. (Not pictured: Dr. Latorya Hicks, Dr. Bill Gunderson, Dr. Julie Gunderson, EQ Seebooruang, Madison Connaway.) / COURTESY PHOTO
CONWAY, Ark. (August 23, 2022) – Thirteen
Hendrix undergraduate students and three faculty attended the Ninth Annual
Arkansas Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium at the University of Arkansas
for Medical Sciences (UAMS) on July 27, 2022. Drs. Andrew Schurko and Andrea Duina
from the Department of Biology and Health Sciences and Dr. Latorya Hicks from
the Department of Chemistry accompanied the students.
Students
presented posters and talks describing their summer research with faculty at
Hendrix in the Departments of Biology and Health Sciences, Chemistry, and
Physics, and in off-campus laboratories including those at UAMS and Arkansas
Children’s Hospital.
The following
students were selected to give oral presentations at the Symposium:
Kaitlyn Gilkey ’23 (research lab at
Arkansas Children’s Hospital)
Victoria Ortega ’23 (research as part of
Arkansas INBRE Program, UAMS)
Kendal Rainey ’24 (research with Dr. Andrew
Schurko, Hendrix College, Department of Biology and Health Sciences)
The following students
presented posters of their summer research projects:
Joey Beard ’23, Elijah
Dilday ’23, Faris Musallam ’23 and Avery Olmstead ’23 (research
with Dr. Andrea Duina, Hendrix College, Department of Biology and Health
Sciences)
Nate Lemke ’24 (research with Dr.
Andrew Schurko, Hendrix College, Dept. of Biology and Health Sciences)
Katie Diekman ’24 (research with Dr. Julie
Gunderson, Department of Physics, Hendrix College, and Dr.
Robert Eoff, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UAMS)
Cierra Daniels ’24 (research with Dr. Bill
Gunderson, Department of Chemistry, Hendrix College)
Isabel Ritter ’24 (research with Dr. Julie
Gunderson, Department of Physics, Hendrix College, and Dr.
Robert Eoff, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UAMS)
Dillon Simmons ’24 (research with Dr. Bill
Gunderson, Department of Chemistry, Hendrix College)
Madison Connaway ’23 (UAMS Summer
Undergraduate Research Program)
Two of these
students, Ritter and Connaway, received recognition for one of the top 10
poster presentations at this year’s conference.
EQ Seeboonruang ’24, who worked with Dr.
Latorya Hicks on chemistry research, also attended, as did Caroline Tackett ’22,
who works as a technician in the Duina lab.
About Hendrix College
A private liberal arts college in Conway,
Arkansas, Hendrix College consistently earns recognition as one of the country’s
leading liberal arts institutions, and is featured in Colleges That Change
Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges. Its
academic quality and rigor, innovation, and value have established Hendrix as a
fixture in numerous college guides, lists, and rankings. Founded in 1876,
Hendrix has been affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1884. To
learn more, visit www.hendrix.edu.