Livingston Student Center
The School of Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Research Conference features student presentations of our 2025-2026 Interdisciplinary Honors Theses (IHT) and the Interdisciplinary Research Teams (IRT). IHT presentations include scholarly monographs and substantial written work that develop a sustained argument from defined thesis questions. The work incorporates extensive original research, supported by evidence and critical reasoning, and demonstrates mastery of a subject field. IRT presentations showcase interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary projects that expand traditional notions of research through collaborative work.
Featured IHT presentations at the conference:
11 AM - 12 PM
Panel A: Mechanisms, Models, and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Shikha Agarwal, The Metabolic Effects of Nitrogen Mustard and Differentiation by Ca2+ and FK866 on Murine Epidermal Keratinocytes
Advisors: Jeffrey D. Laskin (Environmental & Occupational Health) and Raymond C. Rancourt (Pharmacology & Toxicology)
Denis Parfilko, A Charitable Reaxiomatization of Leibnizs Systemics
Advisors: Martin Lin (Philosophy) and Vladimir Retakh (Mathematics)
1 - 2 PM
Panel B: Economic Governance and Organizational Perception
Reya Brahmbhatt, United States Customs Receiverships in the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Haiti in the Early 1900s
Advisors: Michael Levine (German, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures) and Colin Campbell (Economics)
Anna Ninashvili, Mining Psychological Contract Breach in Naturally Occurring Employee Discourse: An LLM-Based Text Classification of Employee Job Reviews
Advisors: William Kane (Human Resource Management) and Michael Luvalle (Statistics)
2 - 3 PM
Panel C: Creativity, Perspective, and AI
Prakrati A. Kadekar, Designing a Generative AI Writing Revision Tool to Preserve Student Critical Thinking
Advisors: Carla Caponegro (English) and Matthew Stone (Computer Science)
Jack R. Hulme, Constructing a Multi-Perspective Script
Advisors: Mike Duffy (Writing Program) and Virginia Sharpe (Philosophy)
The full conference program is available HERE!
