BIOLOGY: May 6, 2021 (4:00 PM) & May 7, 2021 (4:00 PM) *To RSVP or register for this conference, please see link below: https://stonybrook.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAuc-2qrzovH9xngX4PM4fg_cRddKv3Z48w
ENGLISH: May 7, 2021 (9:00 AM – 4:00 PM) *To RSVP or register for this URECA/English Honors Symposium (schedule below*), please contact
Professor Justin Omar Johnston (justin.johnston@stonybrook.edu).
HISTORY: May 5, 2021 (12:30 PM – 2:30 PM) *To RSVP or register for this conference, please contact Professor Joshua Teplitsky (joshua.teplitsky@stonybrook.edu).
HONORS COLLEGE SENIOR SYMPOSIUM: Available via link below. https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/honors-college/academics/honors-college-senior-symposium-2021.php
MATERIAL SCIENCES & CHEMICAL ENGINEERING: May 12, 2021 (2:00 PM – 4:00 PM) *To RSVP or register for this Senior Research Thesis symposium, please contact Professor
Miriam Rafailovich (miriam.rafailovich@stonybrook.edu).
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING: May 7, 2021 (9:30 AM – 11:30 AM) *To RSVP or register for this conference, please contact Professor Jay Mendelson (jay.mendelson@stonybrook.edu).
PHYSICS: May 5, 2021 (1:00 PM) *To RSVP or register for this conference, please contact Professor Robert McCarthy (robert.mccarthy@stonybrook.edu).
PSYCHOLOGY: May 5, 2021 (1:00 PM – 3:00 PM) *To RSVP or register for this conference, please contact the Stony Brook Psi Chi Chapter (sbupsichi@gmail.com) or Stony Brook Psi Chi Member Jonathan Baez (jonathan.baez@stonybrook.edu)
STONY BROOK YOUNG INVESTIGATORS REVIEW (SBYIR): May 4, 2021 *For further information and details on the SBYIR events, please refer to the Interactive Schedule on our URECA website (scroll to the bottom): https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/ureca/celebration/schedule.php
*ENGLISH DEPARTMENT HONORS SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE (Friday, May 7, 2021)
Panel One (9:00 AM -10:25 AM):
Jolena Podolsky – Poetic Analysis of Catholic Guilt
Jen Giuffrida – Improper Indoctrination: The Downfall of Gilead in the Handmaid’s Tale
Eva Smith – Defeating Death: Navigating the relationship between the apocalypse and early transhumanist themes in two post nuclear science fiction short stories
Panel Two (10:30 AM -11:55 AM):
Samantha Lange – Killing Romanticism in Madame Bovary
Abbygail Kydd – Feeding Identities in the Anthropocene
Gwen Goodyear – Stop and Smell the Roses’ to Survive: An Analysis of Nature’s Healing Power in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Clare Meany – Less is More: Lydia Davis and the Genre of Microfiction
Lunch Break (12:00 PM – 1:30 PM)
Panel Three (1:30 PM – 2:25 PM): Marie Gugnishev – Winning the War on Memory: The Things They Carried and Ideology Acting as Imperialism
Tayla Straub – Think outside. No box required: Barbara Kingsolver’s Conception of an Antidote to Female Oppression via the Environment in Prodigal Summer
Jessica Hernandez – TBD
Evan Donnellan – TBD
Panel Four (2:30 PM – 4:00 PM):
Scott Mackenzie – Two Astronomers Walk into a Bard – An Analysis of Shifting Cosmologies in Shakespeare’s Plays
Julia Goodwin – Narrative Structure and Authorial Intent in The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises
Stephanie Hwang – TBD
Yu-Jin Chung – Shell Shock as the Initial Stage to Freudian Λόγος: Septimus’s Psychic Breakout from the Inarticulate “Religion” of Darwinian and Social Darwinian Ideas in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway