2018 ACC Meeting of the Minds

2018 ACC Meeting of the Minds

Each year, usually in late March or early April, 5-10 outstanding undergraduate researchers (accompanied by a faculty/staff member) from each ACC university gather at a host university to present their research, either verbally or as a poster.  

At most universities, the student delegates are chosen through a refereeing process.  To be invited to the conference is a real honor. In April 2018, the ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference was held at Boston College and six remarkable Duke University seniors were chosen to present their work to their ACC peers.

Reena Debray
Major: Biology
Testing how social relationships “get under the skin”: mitochondrial DNA regulation in a social primate
 
Caroline Fernelius
Major: English
From the Convent's Innermost Walls: Female Collectives in the American Canon
 
Joseph Kreitz
Major: Biology
A rational bacteriophage cocktail design framework that improves the efficacy of phage predation in vitro
 
Cam-Ha Nguyen
Major: Public Policy/Asia and Middle Eastern Studies
Autonomy, But Together: Exploring Teachers’ Autonomy, Efficacy, and Job Satisfaction in Elementary Schools
 
Aron Rimanyi
Major: Political Science
Indivisible yet Separable? A new perspective on the political economy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
 
Kya Sorli
Major: Physics
Hydrodynamic Modeling of the Deep Impact Mission into Comet Tempel 1