Student Research Symposium Schedule

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

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"

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.

11:15 a.m. — Graduate Panel

  • Olivia Cassone
  • Melissa Guercio
  • Morgan Gress

11:45 a.m. — Multidiscipline Oral Presentations 

(Breakout Rooms)   

  • Mixed Topics — Room #319
    • Moderator - Tom Mainiero
    • Victoria Corcoran
    • Diana Dominique
    • Natalie Zahn
    • Mattew Watson
  • Mixed Topics — Room #316
    • Moderator - Igor Ivanovski

12:30 p.m. — Lunch

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

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

Posters

  • Julianna Blake
  • Vincent Engel
  • Macy Gabbamonte
  • Gianna Gallo
  • Enrique Gress
  • Lanna Delaney
  • Joshua Guerrero
  • Enrique Gress
  • Cody Knott
  • Jose Mendez Llivicura
  • Vicenza Robiglio
  • Peyton Strack
  • Caroline Velardi
  • Ariana Sefer

Art Exhibition

  • Karly Kaziun
  • Natalie Chudeck

2 p.m. — Closing Remarks   

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