Chelsea Rodriguez Presented at Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities Symposium at Fort Lewis College

2014 May 15

The Fort Lewis College School of Arts and Sciences held its annual Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities Symposium on Thursday, April 24, 2014. Student participants were selected by their departments to represent the best undergraduate research and performances done at Fort Lewis College this year. Each department (Anthropology, Art & Design, Biology, Chemistry, Exercise Science, Environmental Studies, Gender & Women's Studies, Geosciences, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics and Engineering, Psychology, Sociology, and Theatre) selects two students to give talks, and up to five groups of students to present posters or performances. Many of these students have also presented at professional conferences in their disciplines.

Chelsea Rodriguez, of Mesa, AZ, presented a project titled "The Roots of Eugenics: Key Shifts in the Early Development of Eugenic Ideology, 1869-1883," supervised by Ellen Paul and John Baranski. Rodriguez's major is History - Social Studies for Secondary Teachers Option .