The University Research Center sponsors a Lunchtime Faculty Research Presentation series, where University faculty present their current research to a faculty and staff audience.
Bring your lunch to the Hall Campus Center Ballroom and learn about your colleagues’ research and creative work
If you are interested in presenting your research during the fall or spring semester, please email the Research Center at ulresearch@lynchburg.edu.
Spring 2024 Presentation Schedule
Hall Campus Center Memorial Ballroom
Noon – 1 p.m.
Faculty and staff only. No need to RSVP.
Thursday, Feb. 8 | Jurgen Ziesmann, PhD How Termites Talk: Chemical Communication in Social Insects |
Monday, Feb. 19 | Kelly Ann Jacobson, PhD Refracted Angles: Point of View and Persuasion in Weaver |
Monday, March 4 | Abby Skinner, MLIS AI and Scholarly Research: How Librarians are Navigating their Next Existential Crisis |
Monday, March 25 | Paul McClure, PhD Organized Spirituality: Dispatches from Silicon Valley |
Monday, April 8 | Sean Collins, PhD, CSCS*D Assessing Human Performance in Sport |
Monday, April 22 | Ei Hlaing, PhD Culturally Sensitive Depression Assessment for Burmese People Post-Military Camp |
Fall 2023 Presentations
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Zakaria Kurdi PhD: Automatic Detection of Alzheimer's Disease with Lexical Features
Robin Bates, PhD: Journeys of 16th Century Countryside Through a Reading Room of the British Library
Nichole Sanders: Mexican Motherhood at Mid-Century: Science vs Angel of the Home in the 1940s-1960s
Aubrey Plourde:Arrested Development & Religious Experience in Robert Browning's Caliban Upon Setebos
David Freier: “Immunotoxicity and Inflammation: A Progression to Understand Macrophage Biology.”
Nichole Sanders: Mexican Motherhood at Mid-Century: Science vs Angel of the Home in the 1940s-1960s
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Spring 2023 Presentations
John D. Styrsky. Investigating Local Adaptation in Common Milkweed
Siobhan Byrns. Senescence: Ephemeral Art as Portraiture
Dr. Susan J Barlow. Investigating Wrist Stability
The Environmental History of the Turku Wolf Attack, by Adam Dean PhD
Dr. Michael Robinson, "Formala, Franchises, and Fandom"
Tom Bowman PhD, ATC,. "Improving Athlete Safety by Studying Head/Neck Injury in Sport"
Fall 2022 Presentations
Dr. Hall, Ticks & Tick-borne Diseases. Research Center at the University of Lynchburg
Pedro Larrea, A Wizard's Manuscript: Word, Alchemy, and the Poet's Stone
Dr. Lindsay Pieper, Sex Passports
Dr. Kurdi Analyzing & Identifying Communities Within A Social Network Using Automatic Topic Labeling