Top Scholars

The following College of Liberal Arts and Sciences students received honors at Bradley University’s annual Student Scholarship Expo:

Award in the Humanities
Sierra Doss — The Essential Diversification of Media

Award in the Social Sciences
Andrea Winn — The Evolution of the National Identity of the Islamic State

Undergraduate College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Award in the Natural Sciences
Andie Miller — The effects of commercial and native arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on growth and production of Echinacea purpurea (Purple Cone Flower)

Graduate college of Liberal Arts and Sciences Award in the Natural Sciences
Danielle Wentzel and John Kuhns  — The Synthesis and Analysis of 3-Oxo-Delta Lactone Derivatives

Undergraduate College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Award in the Computational and Mathematical Sciences
Matthew Weiss, Jeremy Carter, Whittaker Gramly and Aidan Kennell — A Curve Interpretation and Rule Based Program for CAT Loaders and Haulers

Graduate College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Award in the Computational and Mathematical Sciences
Rama Rachakonda, Colleen Heinemann, Annie Benitha Thomas, Poojtha Durga, and Srinivas Karri — Innovative Software Systems for Smart Classrooms

Graduate Provost’s Award
Sarah Kerrn — Deconstructing the Boundaries of Material Reality: The Significance of Touchstone Characters in Theoretical Approaches to Magical Realism

Undergraduate President’s Award
Katie Eckhoff Bradley Student Opinion on the Ethics of Genome Editing and Dynamics of Nitrogen Runoff in a Restored Wetland at Wightman Lake

Student Scholarship Expo award winners from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. (Photo by Duane Zehr)