WELCOME TO RESEARCH DAY, Salem State’s annual showcase and celebration of research, scholarship, and creative inquiry. Join us at any point in the day for engaging presentations, panel discussions, performances, and more.
The day begins with the Undergraduate Research Symposium from 9 am to 12 pm, followed by the BIAC Plenary at 12:15 pm, and the Faculty and Graduate Research Symposium from 1:30 to 6 pm, with many events taking place throughout the day.
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Improving Lives Together: Perspectives on Sustainable Living and Community 10:40 - 11:30 am | undergraduate panel session II Bertolon Central Classroom Building room 114
Will Reagan Faculty mentor: Anne-Marie Hakstian Saving for Retirement in America: The Struggle and the Solutions
Retirement is a part of life that all working Americans work towards. Sadly, it is not the reality a lot of people can enjoy. With the death of pensions, lack of retirement savings, poor finance education, and high cost of living, a lot of Americans don’t get to retire and work till the day they die. There are several avenues that can be pursued to remedy this crisis such as increased individual preparation by taking advantage of employer programs and saving earlier, increased financial literacy, and strength through numbers via unions and regulations.
Kieran Currier-Dougherty Faculty mentor: joe buttner Aquaponics as a User-Friendly, Sustainable Food Production System
Aquaponics is a form of sustainable food production that combines hydroponics and aquaculture. In hydroponics, plants are grown without soil and are suspended in water or in a medium. In aquaculture, fish are grown to and in the process excrete nitrogenous waste. In aquaponics the nitrogenous wastes are nutrients removed and used by plants. The process is facilitated by nitrogen fixing bacteria. Techniques are relatively user friendly and universally applicable at a small scale for educational or backyard use. Maintaining an aquaponics system can be a sustainable way to produce “organic quality” greens for consumption
Cynthia Boyd Faculty mentor: Sara Moore Resident Assistant's Experiences and Support
The central research question I am going to explore is as follows: What challenges do Salem State Resident Assistants (RAs) face in the RA role and how have these challenges impacted their job satisfaction and overall well-being as students? Answers to this question could potentially reveal more about the campus climate, particularly within the residence halls, and the issues facing this group of student leaders on Salem State University’s campus within their respective roles with a focus on Resident Assistants. Moreover, I am particularly interested in how Residence Life (Res Life) is situated within a larger institution like a state-funded college and more largely, higher education. Specifically, how has higher education, and therefore residence life and student affairs, changed in its role over the last twenty years? These findings could help identify some of the systemic issues shaping the lived experiences of RAs.
