Four students: Darcy Ellerbee, Isabella Bernard, Jonathan Parker, and Zane Johnston recently attended the NCHC meeting in Chicago in November. All presented posters (see below). They were accompanied by Director Kardas and Assistant Director Odendaal.
All took the Texas Eagle Amtrak train (in sleeper accommodations) from Texarkana to Chicago.
Waiting for the Texas Eagle. Train was nearly three hours late. L to R: Ellerbee, Parker, Johnston, and Bernard
The trip to Chicago took some 14 hours each way. The fare included meals in a dining car. The sleeper accommodations were tight but better than sitting in coach.
All four presented their honors project work. Bernard had two posters, one on Student Attitudes on Climate Change and she was co-author on another on ChatGPT.
Johnston's poster, like Bernard's, was a project completed in the Research Methods in Psychology course and both were supervised by Dr. Deborah Wilson.
Johnston's poster on Title IX
Ellerbee, Parker, and Bernard's poster was on ChatGPT. Specifically, it looked at the potential problem of honors applicants submitting AI-written admission essays. This was an honors project from the Cognitive Science course supervised by Ed Kardas.
Parker and Ellerbee stand by their poster. (Bernard, in the same session, could not be both places at once.)
It was not all work and no play, Odendaal made sure of that. All of the students saw other Chicago sites including the Aquarium. I guess it was Shark Week in Chicago.
We also ate a lot. Chicago has great restaurants. Here we are at Volare about to eat pasta.
Next year's NCHC meeting will be in Kansas City. If you want to go, prep a proposal.
Special Thanks to Josh Kee and the SAU Foundation for making this trip possible.
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