Academic Conference to Showcase Student Work

The College of the Holy Cross will host Academic Conference 2007 from April 25 through April 28. The four-day conference is designed to provide students from a broad spectrum of academic disciplines with an opportunity to present the results of their independent work. The programs, projects, poster sessions, and performances by students are the results of student work over one or two semesters under the guidance of faculty members.

Approximately 300 Holy Cross students will be involved in the conference this year. Academic Conference 2007 is free and open to the public.

Representing a fraction of the independent and group-project opportunities of which Holy Cross students have taken advantage this year, the conference includes works from the arts, social sciences, humanities and natural sciences. Students will present an extraordinary array of topics: ranging from women’s politics in Latin America; to an ethical analysis of the Christian Right’s ideology of the family; to exploring women’s identity by studying fashion at Holy Cross; to the examination of class identity and attitudes toward poverty and policy; to research and field work in the deaf community; to the effect of caffeine in adolescents.

This year’s conference also boasts three Fenwick Scholars, tied with last year as the most in the 40 year history of the prestigious honors program. The three students have devoted their entire senior year engaged in an independent, self-designed program of study and have completed a significant research or creative project.

• Catherine Hughes ’07 will give a talk on “Debussy in Context: ‘French’ Identity in a Culture of Modernism” on April 25 at 4 p.m. in the Rehm Library.

• Candida Desjardins ’07 will follow with “A Remote and Non-Contact Method for Obtaining Blood-Pulse Waveform with a Laser Doppler Vibrometer” on April 25 at 5 p.m. in the Rehm Library.

• Cristina Baldor ’07 will lecture on “Sanctuary: Stories of Cuban-America” on April 26 at 5 p.m. in the Rehm Library.

A conference reception, open to the entire Holy Cross community, will be held on April 25 at 6 p.m. in Moran Lounge on the fourth floor of Smith Hall.

The conference is sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Dean of the College.

Related Information:

* Academic Conference 2007 [PDF] * Chamber Music Festival Sets Tone for Academic Conference