College of Arts and Sciences Research Conference

Welcome to the Fourth Annual College of Arts and Sciences Research Conference. The various sessions showcase the quality, depth, and breadth of original theoretical and applied research being conducted by the talented faculty, students and alumni from Indiana University Northwest’s College of Arts and Sciences and our colleagues from other divisions, schools and universities.

The importance of research as a way of informing one’s teaching and the pride I take in the research of faculty at IU Northwest represent major reasons for founding the conference. The event is the outgrowth of a strong constellation of academically excellent programmatic offerings. It illustrates the relevance of intellectual pursuit in the arts, humanities, social and natural sciences and interdisciplinary studies to the understanding of ourselves, our communities, our nation and our world. We know you will be intellectually stimulated by the caliber and variety of presentations. The conference has evolved to the wonderful benefit of faculty mentoring students’ research and showcasing students in a professional venue that is often not accessible to them at other institutions.