Rio to Host Research & Scholarship Exhibition

RIO GRANDE, Ohio – Students at the University of Rio Grande will take center stage at Thursday’s inaugural Research & Scholarship Exhibition – R↑SE.

More than 30 students spanning a variety of academic interests will make presentations, present posters and even perform to showcase their studies through personal interests. R↑SE is free and open to the public with refreshments and cookies available, courtesy of the All Greek Council. Activities are scheduled to start at 10 a.m. and run until 3:45 p.m. throughout the Berry Fine & Performing Art Center on the Rio Grande campus.

“Students are at the center of everything we do here at Rio Grande, and the Research & Scholarship Exhibition is their showcase,” said Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Richard Sax, Ph.D. “I’m excited our students have this opportunity to share their individual passions and demonstrate what they’ve learned.”

All panel presentations will take place in Fine Arts room 124 from 10 to 11 a.m., 12 to 1 p.m., 2 to 3 p.m. and 3:30 to 3:45 p.m. Poster sessions will take place in the Fine Arts atrium from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 to 2 p.m. The exhibition also will feature “Opera Scenes: Students as Directors” from 3 to 3:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts auditorium.

The exhibition will include three student papers that also were presented at the Sigma Tau Delta (English Honor Society) Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in March. Jessica DeLong’s “Passive Resistance in the Bluest Eye” is scheduled for Panel Presentations II from 12 to 1 p.m. Kayla Browning’s “C.S. Lewis’ Surprised by Joy: Joy in the Real World” and Rebecca Hutchison’s “Jane Austen: What’s Love Got To Do With It?” are scheduled for Panel Presentations III from 2 to 3 p.m.

A complete R↑SE schedule is available at rio.edu.

“Over the last couple years we’ve talked about doing something like this,” said Heather Duda, Ph.D., chair of the R↑SE Committee and an associate professor of English. “We decided now was the right time. And we’ve got a supportive president and provost who are behind a campus-wide, student-centered research and scholarship event.”