2020 Senior Legacy Symposium
Digital Abstract Collection

Dear Saint Louis University staff, faculty, alumni, parents, and friends:

The Senior Legacy Symposium is SLU's annual celebration of undergraduate scholarly and creative work. Since 2008, this event has provided a platform for distinguished students from all majors to share their culminating academic achievements with the campus community in the form of research posters, oral presentations, artistic exhibitions, and musical/dramatic performances.

The 2020 Senior Legacy Symposium was scheduled to be held on April 28, 2020. When the University cancelled on-campus events in response to COVID-19, a live Symposium was no longer a viable option. Nevertheless, the University Honors Program (which has organized the event in recent years) remained committed to recognizing the scholarly and creative accomplishments of graduating seniors who would have otherwise participated in the Symposium. This website is the result of that commitment, the generous cooperation of faculty from across the University, and the active participation of students who were nominated by their home departments/programs. Special thanks also goes to University Honors Program graduate assistant Ciara Pink for her design work bringing the site to life.

In lieu of a live event, we asked students to share abstracts of the projects for which they were nominated and then assembled them in this digital abstract collection. Below you will find abstracts organized by school/college and then by individual department/program. Even though we are unable to share in students' achievements as part of the on-campus experience, we will celebrate, as Ignatius said, as “communitas ad dispersionem” – a community in dispersion.

I invite you to peruse the impressive list of projects from across disciplines and to join me in celebrating our graduating students who serve as a beacon of hope during this trying time.

Sincerely,

Robert J. Pampel, Ph.D.
Director, University Honors Program

Abstracts by School/College

Click on a school or college below to browse projects by discipline, or enter a student or project name in the search bar (upper right corner of the page).

Please note, all undergraduate departments/programs were invited to nominate up to three projects (individual or group) for the Symposium. Not all departments/units claimed all three spots. In addition, nominated students were invited to contribute to this online compendium of projects, but participation was optional. Therefore, not all departments/programs will feature the same number of projects.

Also, the presentation of results within each department/program page is by nominated student, which means some departments/programs with group projects will appear to have more than three results, but only because multiple student names will lead to the same final project page. By accessing the site navigation drop-down menu at the top right, you can filter down to the projects within each department/program.
Finally, while we solicited abstracts only from all nominated students, some projects pages in Fine and Performing Arts feature pictures of the visual products that would have otherwise been presented at the Symposium.

If you are a department/program representative and do not see a project for a student or group you think should be included among the abstracts below, please contact legacy@slu.edu. Please note, in the brief biography for each student, we have used gender-specific pronouns only when supplied by the student. Otherwise, we have opted for the gender-neutral "they/them/theirs."