Student-Athletes to Present at the CAS Honors Spring 2021 Virtual Symposium

Student-Athletes to Present at the CAS Honors Spring 2021 Virtual Symposium

CAS HONORS SYMPOSIUM | 3-MINUTE COMPETITION FLYER | ZOOM 1 | ZOOM 2

BOSTON – Suffolk University College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) honors students are set to present their senior honors thesis, contract presentations and class project presentations, as well as compete in a three-minute thesis pitch this afternoon, Thursday, May 4 on Instagram and Zoom. Ram Nation will be represented by nine student-athletes both in the competition and presentations.

VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM – INSTAGRAM                                                                     1:00-2:30 PM

                Opening Words from Dean Lisa Celovsky
                Congratulation sand Comments from University Administrators and CAS Faculty
                Student Poster Presentations
                                Senior Honors These & Presentations
                                Honors Contract Presentations
                                Honors Class Project Presentations 

3-MINUTE THESIS COMPETITION – ZOOM                                                            3:30 – 4:30 PM

Honors graduating seniors will present their senior projects to a non-specialist audience – in no more than 180 seconds and using a single slide! Prize winners in each competition will be determined by a panel of guest alumni judges. 

Softball's senior captain Constance Phelan will represent the blue-and-gold in three-minute thesis group 2 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Zoom. The Longwood, Florida native, who is set to continue her education with a full-ride to Florida State's Law School in the fall, will pitch her department-award winning "Control Even After Death; The Power of the Woman Within du Maurier." 

Five different Rams will present their Honors Senior Thesis and Projects. 

Olivia Chilcott
"Corporate Crime Trends and the Supreme Court"
Political Science & Legal Studies 

Gabriella DeComo | Women's Basketball Senior Captain
"Music in Personal Essays"
English, Creative Writing 

Olivia Hurley | Women's Soccer Senior
"American Health Insurance"
Political Science & Legal Studies 

Natalie Fay | Women's Cross Country / Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field Senior Captain
"How Driving Forces Behind Section 230 Repeal can De-Incentivize the Twitter Algorithm"
Advertising, Public Relations & Social Media 

Dakhensey Marcellus | Women's Volleyball / Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field Senior
"Sandra Day O'Connor Impact"
Political Science & Legal Studies 

In addition to the members of Suffolk's Class of 2021, members of the junior class have Honors Contract Projects in the event as well. 

Kiley Searles | Women's Hockey Junior
"Partisan Gerrymandering"
GVT-305 | Women and Public Policy 

Jordan Smith | Women's Volleyball Sophomore
"Architecture Online: The Winslow House"
HST-H296 | Building Urban America 

Hunter Toyoda | Men's Cross Country / Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field Junior Captain
"Using Virtual Reality to Visualize Biomolecular Structures in 3D"
CHEM-H332 | Biochemsitry II

Links to follow the symposium on Instagram and to tune into the Zoom (1 | 2) competitions are above.