Welcome to the NSU Research Council’s 37th Annual Research Day!
Faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students are invited to submit proposals to present their scholarly or creative projects at Northwestern’s 37th Annual Research Day. This face-to-face conference on the Natchitoches campus will include synchronous oral presentations (15 minutes + 5 minutes for questions), synchronous brief oral presentations (5 minutes), and a poster session. To apply to present this year, please complete the online form: https://forms.office.com/r/M2b9ryhr1E , paying special attention to the formatting instructions. The final date to submit abstracts is Tuesday, April 2, 2024.
- Student applications must designate a faculty sponsor. The faculty sponsor is responsible for ensuring the quality of the presentation.
- Faculty may use a Research Day presentation to satisfy the dissemination requirement for a Faculty Development Grant received in the past year.
We hope that faculty will encourage advanced distance learning students to contribute either poster or oral presentations of their research. These presentations can be conducted via WebEx.
Questions? Please contact Dr. Betsy Cochran (cochran@nsula.edu).
Phi Kappa Phi Student Research Awards: Each award consists of a $500 cash prize. The purpose of these awards is to recognize outstanding research, distinguished artistic performance, or creative work completed by a student, or team of students, while enrolled at NSU. (If a team project is selected, the prize will be divided equally between the project members.) This will be the sixteenth year that these awards have been made; both undergraduate and graduate students may be nominated. Nominees must apply to present their work in an oral presentation at Research Day.
Dr. Marietta Lebreton Louisiana Studies Award: honoring faculty members whose careers have been dedicated to research regarding Louisiana topics.
Dr. Mildred Hart Bailey Faculty Research Award: recognizing outstanding research or distinguished artistic performance or creative work substantially completed within the past three years (2018-2020).
Dr. Jean D’Amato Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award: honoring senior faculty members whose careers have included a significant commitment to research and service to their discipline.
Dr. Jean D’Amato Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award
2015- Dr. Julie Kane, Department of Language and Communication
2013- Dr. Shirley “Holly” Stave, Lousiana Scholars’ College
2012- Dr. Karen McFerrin, Department of Educational Leadership and Technology
2011- Dr. J. Mark Thompson, School of Creative and Performing Arts
Mildred Hart Bailey Faculty Research Award
2018- Dr. Dennette McDermott, Creative and Performing Arts (Music)
2017- Paul Christopher, School of Creative amd Performing Arts
2016- Dr. James J. Mischler, Language and Communication
2015- Dr. Patrick W. Dill, School of Creative and Performing Arts
2014- Dr. Richard Bach Jensen, Louisiana Scholars’ College
2013- Heather Salter Dromm, Language and Communication
2012- Dr. Andrew Crank, Department of Language and Communication
2011- Dr. Sanghoon Park, Department of Educational Leadership and Technology
2010- James Cruise, Department of Language and Communication
2009- Dr. Holly Stave, Louisiana Scholars’ College; Matt DeFord, Department of Fine Arts
2008- Dr. Keith Dromm, Louisiana Scholars’ College
2007- Dr. Lisa Abney, Language and Communication
2006- Dr. Mark Schaub, College of Business and Dr. J. Mark Thompson, Creative and Performing Arts (Music)
2005- Dr. Kristine Coreil, Creative and Performing Arts
2004- Dr. Julie Kane, Language and Communication
2003- Dr. Andrei Ludu, Chemistry and Physics
2002- Dr. Jack Wann, Creative and Performing Arts (Theatre)
2001- Dr. Richard DeVault, Mathematics
2000- Dr. Martin Rudd, Chemistry and Physics
1999- Dr. Subhash Durlabhji, College of Business
1998- Dr. Dennette McDermott, Creative and Performing Arts (Music)
1997- Dr. Frank Schicketanz, Louisiana Scholars’ College
1996- Dr. Lissa Pollacia, Computer and Information Systems
1995- Dr. Leslie Marlow, Dr. Duane Inman, and Dr. Maria Betancourt-Smith, College of Education
1994- Dr. Katherine Kearns, Language and Communication
1993- Dr. Michael Yankowski, Creative and Performing Arts (Art)
1992- Dr. Jean D’Amato-Thomas, Louisiana Scholars’ College and Dr. Subhash Durlabhji, College of Business
1991- Dr. Curt Phifer, Louisiana Scholars’ College
1989- Dr. Maureen McHale, Psychology
Dr. Marietta LeBreton Louisiana Studies Award
2018-Dr. James M.MacDonald, Department of Criminal Justice, History, and Social Sciences
2016- Dr. Tommy “Ike” Hailey, Department of Criminal Justice, History, and Social Sciences
2015- Dr. Charles Pellegrin, Department of Criminal Justice, History, and Social Sciences
2014- Dr. Susan Dollar, Department of Criminal Justice, History, and Social Sciences
2012- Dr. Hiram “Pete” Gregory, Department of Criminal Justice, History, and Social Sciences;
Mary Linn Wernet, Watson Library
Phi Kappa Phi Student Research Award
2018-Christina Arrechevala, Louisiana Scholars’ College; Hailey Jett, Department of Biological Sciences
2017- Kirsten Fontenot, Louisiana Scholars’ College
2016- Aaron Bradford, Louisiana Scholars’ College; Megan Duhon, Louisiana Scholars’ College
2015- Richelle Dorris, Louisiana Scholars’ College; Jacquelin Strug, Louisiana Scholars’ College
2014- Jules Guidry, Louisiana Scholars’ College; Matthew Petty, Creative and Performing Arts
2013- Rachel Pair, Louisiana Scholars’ College
2012- Saul Carcamo, Louisiana Scholars’ College; Christian Marks, Louisiana Scholars’ College
2011–Laramie Lemon, Department of Biological Sciences; Henri Loridans, Louisiana Scholars’ College
2010- Jacob Matherne, Department of Mathematics; Brittany Domangue, Department of Mathematics
2009- Robert Abernathy, Louisiana Scholars’ College; Elizabeth Ann Pryor, Louisiana Scholars’ College
2008- Elizabeth Maxwell, Louisiana Scholars’ College; Eliane Spaar, Louisana Scholars’ College
2007–Nicholas Reves, Louisiana Scholars’ College; Jennifer Shaw, Clinical Psychology Graduate Program
2006–Kelly Franklin, Biological Sciences; Elizabeth McNeil, Biological Sciences
2005–Jerry Sanders, History
Contact Us
Dr. Betsy Cochran is the faculty coordinator for NSU’s Research Day.
If you have any questions, problems or requests concerning Research Day please contact Dr. Cochran via email or by phone at 318.357.4575.
