On Saturday October 10 a group of 14 Hampden-Sydney students traveled to Lynchburg to present their summer independent research projects at the 17th Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference for Undergraduate Scholarship (MARCUS) meeting hosted by Randolph College. The meeting brought together undergraduates from Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina to share their research work across all academic disciplines. Hampden-Sydney’s delegation represented students from the departments of Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Computer Science, and Physics and Astronomy and work that the students did both at Hampden-Sydney and off-campus in the summer of 2015. The subjects of their work included such diverse topics as examination the regulation of genes, developing new chemical structures with industrial and biological applications, and developing new computer programs to accelerate processing of a variety of applications. Biologists in the group included Will Echols ’17, Kyle Grierson ’16, Michael Bouldin ’16, Mason Luck ’16, and Brant Boucher ’17. The vast majority of the projects as well as the costs of attending the MARCUS meeting were financially supported through summer research funding available through Hampden-Sydney’s Honors Council and Office of Undergraduate Research.
In the picture from left to right are: Ben Lam ’17, Josh Chamberlin ’17, Will Echols ’17, Conrad Brown ’17, Sam Sheffield ’17, Kyle Grierson ’16, Dane Asuigui ’16, Myshake Abdi ’16, Michael Bouldin ’16, Mason Luck ’16, Branch Vincent ’16, Brant Boucher ’17, William Fitzgerald ’16, and Linh Nguyen ‘16
The same group in their more natural state