Student Research Symposium Schedule

Saturday, April 25, 2026

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2026 Symposium Schedule

9 a.m. — Check-in and Breakfast at McGann Conference Center

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9:30 a.m. — Welcome and Opening Remarks

Welcome: Eileen W. Jahn, Ph.D., Executive Dean of the Long Island Campus

Opening Remarks: Tetyana Delaney, Ph.D., Director of Undergraduate Research

Keynote Speakers:

• Speaker: David Siegal, PhD, Assistant Professor of Political Science
  Introduced by: Kirk Lawrence, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Sociology
  Talk Title: "Scholarship as Travel and Leisure"

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10:30 a.m. — 2025 Student SURF Recipients — Oral Presentations

• Presenter: Alison Monaco, Biology
  Title: “The impacts of coastal acidification on behavioral responses to prey cues in Cyprinodon variegatus”.
  Faculty Mentor: Konstantine Rountos, Ph.D.

• Presenter: Timothy Sweeny, Political Science and History
  Title: “Is the Hermit Kingdom a Kingdom At All? North Korea’s Regime Typology”
  Faculty Mentor: David Siegal, Ph.D.

• Presenter: Brandon Ronquillo, History and Social Science
  Title: “A Nation of Grrrls?: Riot Grrrl as an Imagined Community”
  Faculty Mentor: Nerissa Aksamit, Ph.D.

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11:15 a.m. — Graduate Panel

• Moderator - William Phillips
• Olivia Cassone
• Melissa Guercio
• Morgan Gress

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11:45 a.m. — Multidiscipline Oral Presentations 

(Breakout Rooms)   

• Mixed Topics — Room #319
  • Moderators - Tom Mainiero and Igor Ivanovski
  • Victoria Corcoran
  • Kaitlyn Trocchio
  • Mattew Watson
  • Norah Williams and Abigail Debiase
  • Natalie Zahn

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12:30 p.m. — Lunch

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1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. — Poster Session/Art Exhibition

(McGann Conference Center — 9 a.m. — posters set up)

Posters

• Jake Antello
• Julianna Blake
• Lanna Delaney
• Vincent Engel
• Macy Gabbamonte
• Gianna Gallo
• Jordan Gellert
• Enrique Gress
• Joshua Guerrero
• Cody Knott
• Jose Mendez Llivicura
• Maria Michalidis
• Emily Nunez
• Vicenza Robiglio
• Safiya Sataur
• Ariana Sefer
• Peyton Strack
• Ashley Toth
• Joshua Vasquez
• Caroline Velardi
• Brandon Veliz

Art Exhibition

• Karly Kaziun
• Natalie Chudeck

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2 p.m. — Closing Remarks   

Tetyana Delaney, Ph.D., Director of Undergraduate Research