Winning Capstone Topics Cover Chernobyl, E. coli, Consumers, and More

Capstone Winners_2015

The annual Capstone Festival on May 7 featured Mary Baldwin’s brightest academic stars. Among the outstanding students whom faculty selected to present their scholarly and artistic works to the wider campus community and the public, six were singled out for their work.

Delivered Papers

Allyson Cline, The Chernobyl Meltdown of April 26, 1986: How the Soviet Union Created a Radioactive People. Project and Academic Advisors: Mary Hill Cole and Amy Tillerson-Brown.

Performances (co-winners)

Leslie Pittman, Vocal Selections: Exploring the Theme of Love. Project and Academic Advisor: Lise Keiter.

Tiffany Waters, Using Bogart’s Viewpoints Method to Physicalize Character in Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses. Project Advisor: Janna Segal. Academic Advisor: Terry Southerington.

Posters

Makenna Plum, Antibiotic Resistance of Escherichia coli in Fecal Samples from Dairy Cattle. Project Advisor: Paul Deeble. Academic Advisor: Eric Jones.

Multimedia Presentations (co-winners)

Lynnae Sauer, To Buy or Not to Buy? International Comparisons of Consumer Preferences for Environmental Goods and Policy to Influence Preferences. Project and Academic Advisor: Amy Diduch.

Kristia Vasiloff, The Effect of Lupron on the Physical and Neurological Development of Prepubescent Female Mice. Project and Academic Advisor: Louise Freeman.