Thursday, April 3rd

Barr Prize in Public Speaking Competition

Commonwealth Auditorium, Sadler Center, 7 pm

Catered reception to follow in Sadler Atrium

The Barr Fellows are Honors Arts & Sciences seniors who will have just five minutes to effectively explain their research and its importance to a general audience. The Fellows are enrolled in a spring 1-credit public speaking course with Professor Len Neighbors to prepare for the competition, which will feature the most outstanding presenters from the class.  

A panel of interdisciplinary judges will select the top three presentations, with the winner receiving a $1,000 prize.  

Presenters:

Russell Burns

Olivia Cunningham

Henry Hermes

Kaleea Korunka

Yigit Simsek

This opportunity has been made possible through the vision and generosity of Stanley “Butch” Barr '62, a legal professional and instructor of speech at the university. 

Friday, April 4th

9:30 AM     Welcome Desk Opens

3rd floor of the Sadler Center

Light breakfast refreshments provided 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM     Research Talks

19th and 20th Century American History, James Room

Presenters: Josiah DeSarro-Raynal, Andrew Jones, Riley Neubauer, Benjamin Toyryla

Explorations in Chemistry, York Room

Presenters: Jacob Bole, Olivia Cassara, Kevin Su, Jake Swery

Barr Fellows Runners-Up, Tidewater

Presenters: Jonah Oxman, Sarah Sakly, Charlotte Visconsi

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM     Research Talks

A Space for Us: Addressing Representation, James Room

Presenters: Shawna Alston, Maeve Donahue, Abigail Swanberg

(Im)material World, York Room

Presenters: Mia Carboni, Ellen Downward, Anne Ryan Gareis, Jack Roehrick

Machine Learning Approaches & More, Tidewater

Presenters: Courtney Maynard, Colin Murphy, Aaron Ostenfeld

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM     Poster Session I & Refreshments, Chesapeake AB

Saranga Bansal, Psychology

Kathryn Callicott, Psychology

Erin Cooper, Anthropology

Mitchell Doherty, Biology 

Allison Dolan, Neuroscience 

Liang Geng, Chinese Studies 

Sarah Gresham, Chemistry

Jeffrey Gu, Neuroscience

Justin Horowitz, Government 

Catherine Hutson, Biology 

Hannah Jones, Chemistry 

Mallory Junker, Biology 

Ian Kenny, Biology

Madeline Kent, Art History 

Katherine Kim, Chemistry 

Preston Lin, Psychology 

Aidan McCullough, French & Francophone Studies

Andrew Meyer, Chemistry

Samantha Orr, Chemistry 

John Pendergrass, Mathematics 

Joseph Shaklik, History 

Bennett Snyder, History 

Lynn Trott, Studio Art 

Annika Wolle, Geology  

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM     Research Talks

Evolving Empires, Preserving Cultures, James Room

Presenters: Robert Coleman, Jason Du, Keryn Harris, Giorgianna Heiko

Impact of the Arts, York Room

Presenters: Che Cheng, Eric Huang, Abby Johnson, Ellie Madigan

Neuroscience: Opioids, Orexin A, and Osgin1, Tidewater

Presenters: Abner Joseph, Marco Stettler, Nivedha Vaidy

Psychology: Sounds and Stereotypes, Chesapeake C

Presenters: Ruby Aufderheide, Brian Des Roches, Anastasia Dubrovina, Lulu King

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM     Research Talks

International Affairs, James Room

Presenters: Abdallah Hussein, Daniel Kalish, Rachel Oduntan, Elijah Tsai

Religious Expressions, York Room

Presenters: Samantha Fidler, Ben Frogel, Maia Tindall, Chloe Williams

Genes, Genes, Genes, Tidewater

Presenters: Sarah Patterson, Sreeram Pillai, Marcus Royster, Caden Sanko

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM     Poster Session II & Refreshments, Chesapeake AB

Poster and research talk award winners announced at 3:30 pm

Haytham Alsayed, Biology

Sunjeong Bailey, Religious Studies

James Ballenger, Chemistry 

Catherine Bare, Neuroscience

Catherine Bogut, History 

Carolyn Bonafede, Linguistics 

Skylar Brotz, History

Cyrus Butler, Psychology 

Myra Cropper, Computer Science 

Rebekah Gresham, Chemistry

Emma Holley, Biology 

Nathaniel Ingle, Geology 

Sanjoli Jain, Neuroscience

Emma Lankford, Biology 

Jize Li, Computer Science 

Kieran Loftis, Chemistry 

Sarah Long, Classics

Sydney Newell, History

Seneca RiceWoolf, Interdisciplinary 

Matthew Rosenthal, Biology 

Amelia Slater, Biology 

Sahil Verma, Creative Writing

Kerris Watson, Psychology

Chloe Wright, Linguistics