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Not sure what to do for class on Thursday, April 13th? Let the Whalen Symposium be your classroom!

Encourage your students to attend the Symposium and complete an assignment on what they have learned.

Please follow the link for an example of a class assignment used by Professor Sean Eversley Bradwell: 

Whalen Session Assignment

Whalen Session Worksheet

Have your students come and hear Kathleen Mulligan and Sarah Hebert-Johnson speak about their work and experience with her presentation titled: “Walking Through Open Doors: A Journey Through the Subcontinent” at 8:30 am in Emerson A, Campus Center. Senior Jordan Pesci-Smith will be performing an original monologue.

Have your students support their classmates, fellow students, and colleagues.  Have them come and see 400+ students present their work, and over 50 student poster presentations by attending from 9:25 AM – 3:50 PM in the Campus Center.  The noon-hour session will feature finalist presentations for the Whalen Symposium Awards.  There will also be a closing session, featuring the awards ceremony which will begin at 3:50 pm.

To view the complete schedule, go to the Whalen Symposium website.

The Symposium will feature 221 presentations of research, creative writing, and more, representing all disciplines, including the following selections (click the links to view the abstracts):

Stateless: Syrian Refugees in Detroit Short Documentary – Hannah Basciano, Samuel Dellert, and Joshua Margolis

A Uses and Gratifications Analysis of the Politics on Social Media Timelines – Rachel Langlitz

Prejudice and Emotion in the Execution of Socrates - Marguerite Kaminski

Environmental Setbacks in Physical Health: How Where You Live Can Make You Sick – Stephanie Cruz

Community Health Service Learning Through Development and Implementation of Need-based Hygiene and Nutrition Intervention - Emily Warfle, Stephanie Cruz, Angela Grumley, Francesca Mendez, Kerry Miley, Helen Murphy

Using Drone-based Photogrammetry to Supplement Ground-based 3D Laser Scanning for Historic Preservation – Ryan Fedora

The Paradox of the Veil: Muslim Women and French Secularism – Kaitlyn Matrassi

Food Deserts in New York State – Chelsea Doig

Suicidality in People With Eating Disorders and Body Dissatisfaction - Grainne Daly, Abrey Feliccia, A.C. Tierney, Rosie Veltri

Female Piracy: Cross-Cultural Exploration of the Influential Women of the Sea – Naomi Hanson

And many more!

Additional abstracts can be viewed here.

The Whalen Symposium Steering Committee encourages students who have qualifying disabilities to contact Kimberly Wilkinson or Rumit Singh Kakar, Co-Chairs of the Committee at kwilkinson@ithaca.edu or rkakar@ithaca.edu at least one week in advance of any Information Session or other pre-Whalen event to ensure timely arrangements can be made for any necessary accommodations.

For accommodations at the Symposium itself, please make contact at least two weeks in advance to ensure necessary accommodations can be made.

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