McLelland wins SAU research grant

 Impacts of sedimentation, fecal coliform, total fecal chloral chloriform in small ponds is the title of Grace McLelland's research. It was recently awarded an SAU Research Committee grant.

The research is designed to sample "non point" impacts on several campus ponds. McLelland notes:

"This pollution of freshwater ponds can be divided into two types: point pollution which is an identifiable source of pollution where the pollution is discharged, meanwhile non-point pollution comes from multiple different places that run into a specific source but cannot be pinpointed."

She follows that up: "The interest is to see how the different areas of land affect the different ponds in sedimentation, fecal coliform, and total coliform in the ponds."

She hopes to collect, analyze, and present her data in a variety of fora including the Southern Regional Honors Council meeting in Charlotte, NC. That meeting will be held from March 30 to April 1, 2023.

Good luck!

Choo Choo--All Aboard

Four SAU Honors College seniors will be traveling to Greenville, South Carolina over Spring Break to present their research projects or original writings to the Southern Regional Honors Council.

The students are Sydney Kilgore, Mary McMillan, Nitish Narula, and Joshua Manuel. They will travel by car and by Amtrak train. They will meet the Amtrak Crescent in Meridian, MS and travel on it to Greenville, SC.

Once there, they will spend four nights at the Hyatt Regency before traveling back home. All are looking forward to spending some time on the rails and presenting their individual projects.

Taking the train was an economic decision, primarily. Four students could travel for about the cost of one plane ticket. But, sentimental reasons helped too. The four will produce a documentary of their trip. It won't be long, unfortunately, until train travel becomes a rare event in the USA.