Tyra McKenzie - “Compassion Through the Eyes of a Visual Impairment” (session 15) This project is centered on compassion through the eyes of someone who lives with a visual impairment. What I am hoping to achieve with this research is to convey how individuals with visual impairments navigate through the world. Assisting others to understand how compassion can brighten the day of an individual with visual impairment. Through research and personal experiences, this project will depict not only the struggles that individuals with visual impairments face throughout their day, but also convey tools that we can utilize for not only understanding an individual with a visual impairment but also conveys ways in with we has individuals can welcome and show compassion towards individuals with visual impairments rather than placing individuals with visual impairments in a box based on their exterior and what we can see but rather getting to know them for who they are understand the challenges and the victories that follows. This research project’s mission is to teach others about how to interact with individuals with visual impairments along with showing compassion to those who are different from us. This project will bring forth the awareness that needs to present when interacting with individuals with a visual impairment but also teach us that just because someone is different from us does not mean we cannot get to know them from the person that they are learning their strengths, their struggles and their passions as we also learn invite them into spaces that were not tailored to them. This project can help us open our eyes and hearts to individuals that have not been able to receive such acceptance, but by the end of this project we will be able to convey our alliance and walk hand in hand with individuals with visual impairments James McMeachin - “Designing A Study To Assess The Degree To Which Preferred Musical Affect Influences How College Students Perceive Music” (session 15) Mental health themes have been present in lyrics of songs for many years. As far back as Schubert’s setting of Goethe’s poem Erlkönig (1782/1815) and earlier, such themes were appearing in the popular music of the time. In more recent times, mental health themes have become nearly ubiquitous in the lyrics to our music. Even through such disparate styles of music as folk or heavy metal, lyrics are now inspired by the struggles experienced within society. Although connections between lyrics and socioethics have been examined (e.g. Higgins, 2018), little literature exists in consideration of the potential bias an individual may hold based on their own musical preference. This presentation will describe the design stages of a study assessing this potential directly. Topics will cover the breadth of challenges encountered during the process of navigating these stages including the determination of one’s preferred musical affect, the sourcing of instrumental music “stems” (independent of lyric) and the intended design of how the data will ultimately be interpreted. This presentation will be a qualitative description of designing a research project. Data collected for this project will be presented at the Missouri Valley College Research Symposium in December 2026. James Menz, “Calling All Air Drummers!!” (session 16) “Calling All Air Drummers” is a performance in which I’ll play drum covers to several upbeat and engaging songs from the classic rock genre of music. In this format, a popular song is played over a speaker and the drummer accompanies the song in real time. The songs are: “Wipe Out” by the Surfaris, “I Melt With You” by Modern English, and “YYZ” by Rush. All 3
developments in flow photochemical systems since 2010. It emphasizes methods for attaching cancer-targeting agents through C–H activation, metallaphotoredox, and dual-catalysis approaches, highlighting techniques like visible-light photoredox and radical chemistry. Wavelength, light intensity, solvent selection, and reactor design are important variables that impact these processes’ results and are crucial for maximizing drug release efficiency, yield, and purity. Real-world examples show successful prodrugs that zero in on CSC-specific biomarkers, proving flow chemistry can quickly fine-tune the process, keep results consistent, and stay safe. Toward the end, the review hits on issues still hanging around, like scaling up, meeting regulatory demands, and figuring out how to deliver light inside the body. It wraps up by pointing out where research should go next for light-triggered cancer stem cell treatments. Luyando Masocha - “Mis-seeing Harm: Moral Perception and the Politics of Black Hair” (session 10) Beginning with Murdoch’s idea: really seeing others as whole, complex people is at the heart of moral perception. This presentation uses that as a lens to look at something we see too often; white women feeling comfortable touching Black women’s hair. This isn’t just about awkward social moments; it’s a quiet, stubborn form of dehumanization. Black hair becomes a public spectacle, something to be poked and prodded out of curiosity, while touching a white person’s hair is usually seen as crossing a line. It draws from research on microaggressions, how media shapes our thinking, and stories from everyday life. The argument is simple: these encounters aren’t isolated slip- ups. They point to a deeper problem of people failing to really recognize the full personhood of others. When that happens, respecting boundaries starts to feel optional. But we’re not stuck with this. The presentation suggests real change begins by training ourselves to pay genuine attention to each other’s humanity. That means setting consent-first as the default, and reshaping the language we use to talk about hair or anything that marks difference. This makes everyday interactions shift from uncomfortable and harmful to ethical and respectful. Kaya McCory - see Fontanabona et al. “The Heart of a Nation: the Stories of Jackson County from World War II” (session 19) Kaya McCory - “Narrative Criticism: Pilot Episode of The Fosters ” (session 9) The pilot episode of The Fosters introduces a blended family that works together to navigate a new addition to the household. Stef Adams and Lena Foster raise Stef’s biological son, Brandon, along with their adopted twins, Jesus and Mariana. Callie Jacob is then temporarily placed with the family after being released from juvenile detention. This change creates natural tension; however, the family uses familiar communication styles to navigate conflict and challenges within the household. Using the rhetorical analysis method, narrative criticism, this presentation will demonstrate how the show attempts to persuade its audience. Narrative criticism analyzes an artifact by identifying the objective behind the story or narrative and examining how key features, such as characters, setting, and events, support the objective. Since storytelling can be used as a form of persuasion, this criticism examines how character communication and narrative techniques work to influence the audience. By doing so, this presentation will determine whether the creators were influencing viewers to accept more progressive family structures through the use of traditional family communication.
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