Lynchburg College is pleased to announce the Eleventh Annual Student Scholar Showcase. The event will provide students with an opportunity to present their scholarly, research, creative, and/or service-learning projects to the campus community in the Daura Gallery, the Faculty Resource Room and Sydnor Performance Hall in Schewel Hall, and the Memorial Ballroom on Wednesday, April 16, 2008. The 2008 Annual Juried Student Art Show and Senior Art Thesis Exhibition is on display beginning April 22, 2008 in the Daura Gallery.
Student projects can include scholarly papers, creative writing projects, scientific or historical research projects, or performance arts projects, and may be presented in a variety of formats, including oral presentations and poster presentations. Project guidelines include the following:
- Sciences/Mathematics - an appropriate project in the sciences involves laboratory, computational, or field work that is designed to resolve a question or test a hypothesis.
- Social Sciences - such research projects are concerned with new knowledge for the sake of development of the field, or addressing or solving immediate questions or problems within the social sciences.
- Humanities - projects in the humanities involve historical, critical, or analytical studies that pursue an original question and/or work in a substantive way with primary and secondary sources. Projects in the humanities also include such creative writing as original prose, poetry, drama, and combined forms.
- Professional - submissions in this category will involve qualitative or quantitative projects that examine a theory-based or application-based problem, or that emphasize application of theory to practice. Original case writings, critiques of research literature, or evaluations of outcomes of practice are also acceptable.
- Arts - satisfactory artistic projects in art, music, theater, and film will be of the student’s own composition, with or without guidance from a faculty mentor. Examples include paintings, sculptures, photographic displays, musical compositions, dramatic performances, and video projects.
- Service Learning - projects that describe a service experience and the link to related course content. Projects may be presented as posters or as oral presentations. Service-Learning projects require the approval of course faculty.
Proposals are due Friday, February 29, 2008.
For more information, please contact Dr. Allison B. Jablonski (jablonski@lynchburg.edu).