Students invited to Beacon Conference

Eleven Westchester Community Colleges will be part of the Beacon Conference this year - a new record! Nine of our students will present their scholarly papers in panel competitions, and two will display their research in the poster format at the June conference hosted by Bergen Community College in Paramus, NJ . The conference , which showcases the achievements of outstanding two-year college scholars in diverse academic disciplines, drew submissions from seventeen community colleges in five states .

Our 2008 Beacon Scholars are:

Jonnah Mariano
Paper: “Propaganda as Fascism’s Fertilizer: Sowing the Seeds of Hate through Indoctrination and Mind Control"
Mentor: Professor Michael Bobkoff

Emma Francis-Snyder
Paper: "The Chapter that Changed the Face of Democracy”
Mentor: Professor Richard Rodriguez

Sharon R. George
Paper: “Unrestricted Government Surveillance”
Mentor: Professor Richard Rodriguez
James Landrum
Paper:”It Takes Millions: A Re-evaluation of Copyright Law in Hip-Hop”
Mentor: Professor Richard Rodriguez
Amanda Raines
Paper: “The Truth about Honesty: A Study of William Shakespeare’s Othello”
Mentor: Professor Mira Sakrajda
Martina O’Mealy
Paper: “Solaris: A Comparative Study of Stanislaw Lem’s Novel and Its Film Adaptation by Andrei Tarkovsky"
Mentor: Professor Mira Sakrajda
Jennifer Sylvestri
Paper: “Andean Archaeology: Uncovering Incan Adaptive Strategies"
Mentor: Professor B. Jo Stokes
John Sherman
Paper: “A Synergism of Art and Reason"
Mentor: Professor Dwight Goodyear
Casey Clark
Paper: “Oil Effects on the United States Economy"
Mentor: Professor Noreen van Valkenburgh

Our poster session invitees are:

Michelle Rodriguez
Poster display: “Observations from Outside"
Mentor: Professor Alan Devenish
Jessica Cavluzzi
Poster display: “Trial of the Century: Illinois v. Leopold and Loeb (1924)"
Mentor: Professor Heather Ostman

For further details and directions to the conference, visit www.beaconconference.org.