Five graduate students from Emporia State will join students from Kansas Regents institutions for the annual Capitol Graduate Research Summit on Feb. 18.
The purpose of CGRS is to display the quality and robustness of Kansas-related graduate research taking place at local institutions to state government, education officials, industry representatives and the general public. While the event is usually held at the Capitol, it will be held virtually for the first time this year due to COVID-19.
Each institution selected five students to present their research at the event. Students will be judged on their work and presentation quality by graduate faculty from participating institutions and will be eligible for $500 awards from their institution and BioKansas.
This year, the following students will represent ESU at CGRS:
Sarina Durrant, graduate student in the Counseling Education Department, presenting “The Expressive Therapies Continuum and De-escalation”
Katlynn Decker, Physical Sciences master’s student, presenting “Evaluating the Proficiency of Four-Band NAIP Imagery for Determining Water Quality in Farm Ponds, Focusing on Blue-Green Algae Detection”
Ting Wang, doctoral student in the School of Library and Information Management, presenting “Rare Disease, Rare Information: using Social Media to Satisfy Unmet Information Needs”
Rebecca Garland, MS Forensic Science student, presenting “Comparison of Unapplied Versus Applied Liquid Cosmetic Foundation Using ATR-FTIR”
Wenli Cui, master’s student in the School of Business, presenting “Analysis of Oil Market Trends in the Epidemic Era”
CGRS is open to the public and free to access on Feb. 18 at https://ltblogs.fhsu.edu/cgrs2021/.