Every year, the Honors Scholar Society celebrates the mission of Eastern Nazarene College, both Intellectual and Christian, with the Academic Symposium. We invite all faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends of the college to join us for the 9th Annual Academic Symposium to be held April 15-16, 2020. This will be an opportunity for faculty, staff, and students to share their passion and hard work with the larger ENC community. It is also an opportunity for all of us to celebrate our shared mission of providing a quality Christian liberal arts education to students of all ages.

This year's Symposium will be hosted entirely in a virtual format, with both live presentations via Zoom Webinars and asynchronous discussion forums. The program of live presentations is available below. The link to join the live meeting sessions will be available beneath each session description on this page.

For "Poster" presentations and discussion boards, please visit the "Modules" page.

If you are a member of the clergy and would like details about receiving Life Long Learning hours for being a part of the Academic Symposium , please visit the Life Long Learning Page here: Life Long Learning Credit

LIVE PRESENTATIONS PROGRAM:

Wednesday evening April 15:

Session 1 (6:00 p.m.):

Gould Holiness Panel Discussion: Environmental Justice and Holiness

Philip LaFountain, Professor of Theology
Jonathan Twining, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science
Todd and Roshanda Womack, Pastors of Community Connections, Central Church of the Nazarene, Flint, MI

Session 2 (7:30 p.m.):

Elisabeth Schaffer
“Cryptic Anuran Species Delimitation Using Acoustic, Genetic, and Morphometric Analyses”
Elisabeth_Schaffer_Presentation.pptx

José Amilcar Mata Calidonio
“Plant Growth Station: Aiding the Average Person in Becoming a Better Gardener”
Plant Growth Station - Final Presentation Compact.pptx

Dylan Louviaux
“A Handheld Magnetometer for Monitoring Seismic Disturbances in the Earth’s Magnetic Field”
Dylan_Louviaux_Presentation.pptx

Thursday, April 16:

Session 3 (8:30 a.m.):

John Nielson, Assistant Professor of Practical Theology
“For Such a Grief as This: The Faithful Practice of Lament”
J Nielson Academic Symposium Lament.pptx
www.sacredsorrow.org
Five Things to Know About Lament - N.T. Wright Online.pdf
That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief.pdf

History Senior Thesis Projects:

Stephen Ingersoll
“Origins and rise of Antisemitism during the inter-war period”

Madison Morin
“Government and God: The Great Debate as seen Through the Political Work of John Adams”
Madison Senior Thesis PowerPoint.pptx
Madison Morin Senior Thesis.pdf

Theodore Ronayne
"China as the Premiere Threat to the U.S. in Southeast Asia During the Cold War"

Session 4 (10:15 a.m.), IS199 Contemporary Questions Film Projects
Preview the Films

“How Far Does Mercy Go: Reflections on Capital Punishment”

Baldo Karinja, Lacie Price, Micah Vazquez, Jessica Willis

“The Ordination of Women in the Church”

Evan Heisey, Andres Medina, Ana Raquel Romero

“The Bible vs. Science”

Leandra Marchand, Jenna Nielson, Rocco Simon

Session 5 (11:30 a.m.):

Ashley Prax
“Child Protection Policy, Child Safety, and the Church: Why it Matters.”
Ashley_Presentation.pptx

Katelyn Knickerbocker
“Access to Education in the Philippines”
Presentation_Access to Education in the Philippines
LI_Term Paper_Access to Education in PH.pdf

David Young, Assistant Professor of Biblical Literature
“The Cost of Bibles & Biblical Scholarship: Empire, Patronage, and the Christian Scriptures”
Cost of Bibles.pptx

Session 6 (1:30 p.m.)

Katherine Sautter
“Full Stack Phone Application Aiding the Advancement of Student Engagement”

Claire Umuhoza Kayihura
“Manage budgeting on the fly: A software/mobile application for easy and comprehensive management of personal budget”

Session 7 (2:30 p.m.):

MacKenzie Mills
“Shaker Women: Finding Autonomy in Nineteenth Century America”
Shaker Women - Finding Autonomy in Nineteenth Century America.pptx

Marci Zaccardi
“Reclaiming Ourselves: Contemporary Theatre at the Intersection of Christian Faith and Queer Identity”

Tara Brooke Watkins, Assistant Professor of Theatre for Social Justice
"Inverting Theatre of the Oppressed: Preventing Another Tulsa Race Massacre”
Watkins -- Tulsa Race Massacre final.pptx

Session 8 (4:00 p.m.):

Kaleb Golden
“Welcome to the Era of Self-Tuning Drums”
Senior Design Presention.pptx

Osamweniyobo Jude Odeh
“Self-Efficient and Controlled Charging System for Laptop and Android Devices”

Sebastian Arboleda
“A Real-Time Automated Fake News Detection System”