2018 Academic Festival Program

19 4. Documentary Studies: Year in Review Emerson Auditorium Sponsor: MDOCS Program Presenters: Maryam DeWitt ‘18, Jamerly De La Cruz ‘18, Emily Rizzo ‘18, Alexia Nshuti ‘18 Capping MDOCS’ fourth year, students offer highlights of evidence-based storytelling in film, interview, sound, archive, performance, and exhibition. Whether independently developed or created within a course, each project reflects the combination of research, inquiry and presentation — form and content — that are the core of the program's mission. This exciting multi-disciplinary, multi-voiced documentary student work includes a community partnership of the Skidmore-Saratoga Memory Project as well as individual doc projects. Feature-Length Documentary Projects: Maryam DeWitt ‘18, “The Miseducation of the Black Womyn” Jamerly De La Cruz ‘18, ""An Alterable Sign: Politics of hair and anti-Blackness in the Dominican Republic” Emily Rizzo ‘18, “Title TBD” Samantha Fleishman ‘20 "Becoming Rachel Carson" Short Docs: Alexia Nshuti ’18, "Don't Touch My Hair" Reese Fulmer ’18, "Schuster Family Stories” 5. Research Experiences in Mathematics Harder 203 Faculty Sponsors: Csilla Szabo & David Vella, Mathematics Presenters: Sijia Fan ‘18, Chen Lin ‘18, Alex Smith ‘18, Ran Tao ‘18, Kaifeng Yang ‘19 This session will include two student presentations and a student panel discussion. Sijia Fan, Ran Tao, and Kaifeng Yang will present a mathematical model of how climate change influences regional instability and discuss their experience creating this model for the Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM). Chen Lin will give a talk on her undergraduate research entitled, “Elliptic Curves Over Finite Extension Fields”. We conclude with a student panel discussion with Alex Smith, Chen Lin, and others, who discuss their experiences in both pure and applied mathematics research. 6. The Juniors Show Artists’ Talk Schick Art Gallery Faculty Sponsor: Janet Sorensen, Art Presenters: Caite Canfield ‘ 19, Teague Costello ‘ 19, Dana Keyes Gibbons ‘ 19, Sharri Greenwald ‘ 19, Monica Hamilton ‘ 19, Wes Jansen ’19, Finley Martin ‘ 19, Katie Salk ‘ 19, Riley Walzer ‘ 19, Lena Schwartz ‘19 The Juniors Show is an exhibition of work by selected junior art students. Art faculty nominate juniors who are making strong work and developing an artistic vision. These