Students take their skills across the country and around the world
New York City
Liberty University senior Kristine Johnson brought her fashion design portfolio with her to the Big Apple in February when she attended New York Fashion Week, one of the biggest weeks in the fashion industry each year. Johnson won the trip as part of a contest hosted by Liberty’s Department of Family & Consumer Sciences (FACS).
Timisoara, Romania
English graduate student Sophia Jantomaso showcased her “Language as Illumination” research project at The Symposium of Students in English conference in April. Through neuroimaging studies, she showed how the brain works when processing the English language and literature and researched the effectiveness of the Western form of education.
San Antonio, Texas
Second-year Liberty University School of Law students Roniqua Archer and Chavioleyette Fenelus won the American Bar Association (ABA) Regional Representation Mediation Competition, hosted virtually in early March, beating out over 80 teams to advance to the ABA National Mediation Competition April 15-16 at St. Mary’s School of Law, where they finished third.
Atlanta, Ga.
A team from Liberty University’s Aviation Maintenance Technician Program (AMTP) placed third out of 34 collegiate programs at the April 18-20 Aerospace Maintenance Competition (AMC), part of the Aviation Week Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) Americas conference. Liberty placed 21st out of 84 teams in the overall competition that featured representation from commercial and general aviation, space, education, military, repair, and manufacturing sectors. Competitors came from as far away as Australia, Brazil, and Canada.
Eau Claire, Wis.
Engineering Professor Dr. Hector Medina and divinity Associate Professor Jillian Ross presented research alongside 13 students from their schools as well as the Nursing, Biology, and History Departments, at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in April. The conference is the largest event of its kind in the world, with more than 3,600 students and faculty members participating.
HUNTINGTON, W.Va.
The School of Engineering’s Steel Bridge team placed second at regionals in the Student Steel Bridge Competition, sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the American Institute of Steel Construction. The team qualified for nationals, finishing behind Virginia Tech and ahead of Old Dominion University, Marshall University, James Madison University, Bluefield State University, and West Virginia University.
Washington, D.C.
Liberty University’s Office of Inclusion, Diversity, & Equity hosted a bus trip to the nation’s capital on Feb. 15 as part of its Black History Month events. Over 150 students visited the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. Memorials. They also met with U.S. Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.
Alexandria, Va.
Five groups of undergraduate students from the Department of Psychology presented their work at the Virginia Association for Psychological Science (VAPS) annual conference April 13-15, with one team tying for first place for the conference’s Frederick B. Rowe Award for the Best Undergraduate Paper.
Puerto Rico
Students from Liberty University’s Department of Theatre Arts spent their spring break on a 10-day outreach and service trip. They performed dramas at schools, churches, a girls group home, and on the streets around the island. One of their dramas was an original work that spoke to the hardships of the people on the island in the aftermath of multiple natural disasters in recent years.
