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Big Night 2004!
April 1, 2004
CARROLLTON, GA - Students at the University of West Georgia will once again show off their research and performance skills at the sixth annual Big Night 2004! An Evening of Student Scholarship on Thursday, April 8, at 7 p.m. in the Townsend Center for the Performing Arts.
Big Night is a showcase of superior research that has been conducted by UWG undergraduate students in the areas of the arts, business, education, the humanities, the sciences and the social sciences. It is one of the few research competitions in the country that highlight undergraduate research from students in all disciplines and at all grade-point levels.
Students who have competed to win the honor of presenting at Big Night in each of the academic areas will give 10- to 12-minute polished presentations of their research or performances of their creative endeavors. The presenters will be awarded valuable handcrafted bronze sculptures in recognition of their accomplishment.
In addition, a variety of other student research will be exhibited in the atrium of the Technology-enhanced Learning Center. Guests are invited to tour the exhibits and mingle with student presenters during an hors d’oeuvre reception following the presentations.
The area of the arts will be represented at Big Night by Jamie Howell of Carrollton, who will present her research titled “Resistance and Response: Research of the Jewish Holocaust.”
A team effort won the honors in business. Melissa Laney and Brittany Yarbrough of Carrollton will present their research on “A Rent Survey of Apartments in Villa Rica, Ga.”
Representing the area of education, Brett Folske of Mount Pleasant, Mich., and Kerri Eagan of Douglasville will discuss their research titled “Attitudes Regarding Sexual Orientation Among Division II University Athletes.”
The humanities area will be represented by Rebecca Schwab of Douglasville, who will present her original poem “I’d Rather Be Drunk On My Island.”
In the sciences, Sarah Mistak of Maryville, Tenn., will present her research titled “Molluscs at a Bison Kill Site? Expanding the Subsistence Strategies of Archaic Plains Bison Hunters.”
The social sciences will be represented by Erica Rohlfs of Buford, who will present “Legitimate Voices: Nation-States and Feminism.”
Michelle Theriac of Cumming and Paul Whatley of LaGrange will be the Masters of Ceremony for the Big Night event.
Big Night is sponsored annually by the student Association for Research and Creative Humanities and the UWG vice president for academic affairs. There is no admission charge for this event. For more information, contact Dr. Andrew Leavitt, associate professor of chemistry and Big Night coordinator, at 770-836-6550.
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