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Cruz Lopez: To me, the Academic Excellence Showcase is a great way for students to

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be able to highlight the academic research they've done on campus and to validate that the work that they have done

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Is supporting the community that they are so involved in.

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Kayleigh Pierson: Being a part of the Academic Excellence, 

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is just a way to celebrate the hard work that students have done

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and be able to present the findings in a way that allows other students to learn from it as well. 

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Kailey Knospe: So our research was based on our work with the WOU and Polk County COVID19 project

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and we focused on how contact tracing that we did for the community transitioned into a hotline during the peak of Omicron.

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Being a part of the Academic Excellence Showcase is an honor to me because throughout my whole major, just kind of

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puts everything into perspective how much I've done and how hard I've worked and how hard our team has worked as well.

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My research was about improving and identifying transgender skeletal remains.

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The involvement with the Academic Excellence Showcase means I can continue this work and

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people see enough value in this work to allow me to continue to support me and my endeavors.

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Kayleigh: When I took Psych 460, the Research Methods course, and I did this whole research project,

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that's when I actually discovered that I want to do research for a career.

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Cruz: I think research is important, especially from a student perspective, because it gives us the opportunity to be able to inflict 

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change within our community.

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April Massoni: For me, the characters of Prufrock and the Underground Man connected because of their self dislocation.

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Something outside the existential condition is actually part of the existential condition.

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There are many causes to why landslides happen.

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Kai: It is a lot more complicated than what I'm so in right now.

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Kailey: The biggest thing I learned was how many people we reached in our

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community and how big of a difference we made in their world and in their lives.

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