Katherine McLain Presented at Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities Symposium at Fort Lewis College

2015 May 14

The Fort Lewis College School of Arts and Sciences held its annual Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities Symposium on Thursday, April 23, 2015. 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.

Katherine McLain, of Lake Oswego, OR, presented a project titled "Validating the Use of English Lavender Extract as an Herbal Remedy to Combat Inflammation," supervised by Shere Byrd. McLain's major is Biology - Cellular & Molecular Biology option .

The presentations can be seen on the Fort Lewis College You Tube channel via the archived live streams of the Morning & Afternoon sessions.