The arc of student learning
April 25, 2019 |
It’s a wonderful week to observe the arc of student learning at Xavier.
At Tuesday’s Flame, more than 200 students in First Year Seminars gathered in Cintas to listen to the individual and group projects that grew out of their seminars. Navajo pictographs. Paris catacombs. Cesar Chavez. Remembering slavery. Mother Theresa. King Lear. Riotous Parisians. And, of course, chess. Plus much more. First-year students beginning to dig more deeply into subjects.
And today launches a special, two-day edition of the annual Celebration of Student Research & Creative Activity, during which advanced students present the results of more extensive research.
I encourage you to stop by the posters and presentations. Learn how deep our advanced students have pursued their research subjects.
Seek out reports on the macroinvertebrate of the Mill Creek and the aerodynamics of a golf ball; learn about Chinese public opinion on the U.S., the legacy of Galen, the persistence of metarhizium brunneum microsclerotia (under forest conditions), and conformational change in cryptochrome via phosphorylation. And celebrate the contributions of women to the Xavier community over the past fifty years. I certainly intend to learn a few new words.
This year’s celebration will be particularly celebratory, as we mark the 25th anniversary of the event and honor a few of those who have supported student research during Xavier’s past quarter century.
Posters and presentations kick off at 3:30pm in Alter each day; then at 5:30pm (both days!) we’ll adjourn to Conaton for a reception and awards ceremony.
David Mengel