As part of the National Science Foundation Award for the Integration of Research and Education (NSF-AIRE) grant received by Colby College, a student research symposium was organized by the Dean of Faculty and the first annual session was held in April 2000.
A current College goal is to engage as many Colby students as possible in significant research projects that lead to presentation of results before their peers, at professional meetings, and in refereed publications. To further this goal, the multi-departmental student research symposium was initiated by Dean of Faculty, Edward Yeterian.
In 2014 the symposium was re-conceptualized and became CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium.
Submissions from 2006
Vector Theory of Spontaneous Lorentz Violation, Shu Hong Fung
Monitoring Surface Displacement of the Colby Green Retaining Pond Dams, John Goss
Differences in the Effects of Social Context on Emotional Responding, Cheryl L. Hahn and Yulia E. Chentsova Dutton
Man-Made Menopause, Madeline Horwitz
Upregulation of Sadness During Films, Margaret Jackson, Daniel Oscar, and Kathryn Rooney
Climate Change and its Effects on Polar Bears, Alex C. Jospe, Bethany C. Peck, and Emily Sinnott
Variation in Beach Profile and Sediment Characteristics at Popham Beach, Phippsburg, ME, Kathryn Lidington
Assisted Living: The Politics of Medicaid and Medicare, Sarah Lim
The Tastes of a Nation: M.F.K. Fisher and the Genre of Culinary Literature, Melina Cope Markos
Concomitant Antibiotic and Mercury Resistance among Gastrointestinal Microflora of Feral Brook Trout, Salvelinus fontinalis, Matt Meredith
A Broad-spectrum mer Operon in a Multi-drug Resistant Strain of the Fish Pathogen, Aeromonas salmonicida., Erin Parry
Carl Maria von Weber’s Overture to Oberon: A History of Recorded Performance, Stephen Planas
Let Us Now Praise Famous Women, Erin Rhoda
The Perceptions of Pornography on Colby College Campus, Jessica Seymour and Elizabeth Wyckoff
Marketing Social Change: A Comparative Historical and Methodological Analysis of Anti-Smoking Endeavors, Jessica Stathis
Overexpression and Purification of the Oat (Avena Fatua) Protein AFN1 and Construction of a pMAL/AFN1 Expression Plasmid, Tenzin D. Tsewang
Characterization of the Wheat Grain PKABA1-Interacting Protein TaWD40, Natalie Wayne
Epichlorohydrin Cross-Linking of Synthetic DNA Oligomers, Rami W. Zaharan and Julie T. Millard
Submissions from 2005
Abstracts of Presentations, Colby College
Schedule of Presentations, Colby College
Website: 2005 Colby College Undergraduate Research Symposium, Colby College
The Adequacy of Health Care Services for the Elderly in China, Lexi Funk
Submissions from 2004
Abstracts of Presentations, Colby College
Schedule of Presentations, Colby College