IUSB Multidisciplinary Graduate Conference

The Graduate Conference is TODAY in Wiekamp First Floor!

The first session runs from 5:00-6:00. The second session runs from 6:15-7:15. There will be refreshments and some closing remarks to follow.

The Graduate Research Journal Awards will be announced during the closing ceremony (7:20-8:00).

The event is FREE and open to the public. We hope that IUSB students, faculty, recent alumni, and friend can come out to support our panelists!

IU South Bend is holding a Multidisciplinary Graduate Conference “Breaking Boundaries”.


The event is FREE and open to the public. We hope that IUSB students, faculty, recent alumni, and friend can come out to support our panelists!

The Conference will be held April 28. The first panel begins promptly at 5pm.

Here is the schedule of Panels and Presenters:

Session I – 5:00-6:00

Panel 1: Is the Education System Broke?
Chris Williams: The Internet Bully Machine: Or, how is this still a thing?
Veronica Cruz: A Broken System
Ai Vi Nguyen: The Effects of School Funding on Student Academic Performance: A Study of Indiana School Districts 2007 – 2008

Panel 2: Scenes of Life, Personal Narratives
Charles Minx: “London's Child” [must be first]
Doug Johnson: [Personal Essay - Why People Join the Military]
Kathryn Carmichael: Personal Narrative Essay, Rising Above Family Memes

Panel 3: Engaging Community
Elicia Brown-Scheretie: Costa Rica – In the Blue Zone
Gary King: Language, Symbolism and Communication-- can English majors make a difference in government?
Rachel Berryman: "Community-Based Art Projects in South Bend, Revitalization of a Rustbelt City."

Posters: Economic Issues in Local Communities
Jamie Morgan: Low wages and high public assistance: Indiana cannot survive on $7.25
Susana Lagunas and Jessica Edmonds: Nurse Practitioners as health care providers

Session II – 6:15-7:15

Panel 4: Literary Forms and Genres
Matt Henry: Poems: “deadmoon,” “Dehumanizing Static,” and “Woodlawn.”
Wendy Davis: "Interim Spaces" and "Bathroom, Bathroom, Who's in the Bathroom?"
Chris Williams: Novella in Flash: Readings from the Jasper Hill Incident

Panel 5: Problem Solving in Sustainability
Ai Vi Nguyen: Sustainability in Beauty Salon Industry
Ivor Niggebrugge and Elizabeth O’Dea: Transdisciplinarity
Nancy Novak: Breaking Through the Barriers to Communicating Climate Change Issues to the Public

Panel 6: Body, Ideology, and Genre
Jackie Becker: Defining “Detective Genre”
Nichole Miller: Bi***es and Beasts: The White Gaze and the Transformation of the Black Body in Richard Wright’s “Man of All Work” and Native Son
John Chapman: How the Print Media Turned Max into a Communist: A Žižekean Reading of Native Son

Panel 7: Revolution and Modernity
Hui Yang: Does Superstition Play a Role in the Chinese Stock Market? [must be first]
Veronica Cruz: Two Geniuses and a Theory: A Look at Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke
Jason Rose: What Makes Modern Things Modern: A Snapshot of the East Asian Modeng Xiaojie and Moga During the Fin De Siècle

This is the LAST WEEK to submit an abstract to participate in the Graduate Conference.

Please submit an abstract (300 words max + the format you'll be presenting in) by March 31 to [email protected].

IUSB Multidisciplinary Graduate Conference Multidisciplinary Graduate Conference April 28, 2016, at 5pm in Wiekamp Hall. Submit an abstract (300 words max) by March 31 to [email protected].

The Multidisciplinary Graduate Conference is FREE for all current and recent alumni to any IUSB graduate programs.

Please consider participating in this fantastic opportunity and email us your abstract now! Contact us at [email protected].

The Multidisciplinary Graduate Conference is still accepting Abstracts! Please send your abstract, 300 words max, to [email protected]. In your email or abstract, please note the format of your presentation (for example, poster, power point, paper, etc.) as well as your field of study.

The conference will mirror a professional conference. We will have a number of panel discussions, sorted by topic / discipline. These panel discussions can be power point presentations, reading a paper, or similar presentations. We will also have an hour for poster presentations.

Graduate students are allowed to present individually or in groups.

In order to be considered, you must submit an Abstract that outlines your project, maximum of 300 words. Please include your program of study.

Deadline to submit your Abstract is March 31 to [email protected].

Thank you for your interest. We look forward to your submission.

MGC Committee.

The Multidisciplinary Graduate Conference is now accepting submissions to participate in the conference. We are looking for IUSB graduate students and recent alumni to submit papers, power point presentations, poster presentations, etc.

Deadline to submit is March 31st. Email your Abstract (300 word max) to [email protected].

The Conference will be held April 28, 2016, at Wiekamp Hall.