Ramapo welcomed everyone to Friends Hall on Monday, to celebrate the achievements of select students for 13th annual Scholars’ Day.
Scholars’ Day is celebrated each year towards the end of the spring semester, as an opportunity to honor and celebrate students’ achievements.
The event showcases students’ work from the 2024-25 year who are faculty-mentored.
The event began with students from all schools displaying posters of their work in Friends Hall. 60 students shared their posters at this year’s event, the most in Ramapo history. Faculty mentor, Professor Satarupa Dasgupta shared the growth of this year’s event.
“This is the largest Scholars’ Day this year. We have 60 posters. Last year it was big, we had 43, this year we are increasing,” Dasgupta said.
She went on to explain the number of students from each school who had a poster at the event.
“Each school has many students. CA has 10, ASB four, HGS 16, SSHS 13 and TAS 17,” she said.
The students presented topics that they had previously researched and/or written about for class. Topics ranged from literary studies and criticism to environmental issues.
“They all have amazing work…a lot of great posters this year,” Dasgupta said.
The students stood in front of their posters and had the opportunity to talk about their research to those who attended the event.
Following the poster session, there was a series of oral presentations given by students who were selected by the dean of their respective schools to present their topics. One student from each school had the chance to present, while the rest of the students, faculty and family members watched.
From Anisfield School of Business, Naydelin A. Reyes Rodriguez presented on “AI’s Role in Transforming the Job Application Process.”
From the School of Contemporary Arts, William Jackson presented on “Expanding the High School Sexual Education Curricula: The Importance of Including Transgender and Non-Binary Topics.”
From the School of Humanities and Global Studies, Michelle Kukan presented on “Jane Addams Papers Project and Artificial Intelligence.”
From the School of Social Science and Human Services, Victor Flores and Hyungjun Choi presented on “Low Detail vs High Detail Images in Visual Processing.”
Then, from the School of Theoretical and Applied Science, Ekaprana Ramesh, Andrew McWha and Adriana Gedeon presented on “Microbiome Analysis of the Hudson River Water and the Potential of Bioremediation.”
Scholars’ Day is a chance for students to display their work and be proud of all that they have accomplished in their time here at Ramapo.
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Featured photo by Nitin Shukla
