Annual Research Conference 2018 Recap

Huge success!

Inver Hills Community College hosted the Inver Hills Annual Research Conference 2018 Wednesday, April 18, and Thursday, April 19, 2018, on the college’s main campus in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota. Conference hours are 8 a.m.–4 p.m. and 6 p.m.–7 p.m. both days. The theme for 2018 was Our Moral Compass: Navigating to More Meaningful Success.

Lisa Tracy, Inver Hills biology faculty and Annual Research Conference Committee chair, reported that the yearly conference gives Inver Hills students the opportunity to showcase their scholarly research via poster sessions and oral presentations in the Fine Arts building lobby.

“Members of the Inver Hills campus community, including faculty and staff, supported our students by attending their sessions and presentations during the conference,” Lisa said. “They also attended special panels and sessions as well as talks by our keynote speakers, Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, MDiv, associate professor of justice and peace studies at the University of St. Thomas, and Elizabeth Buchanan, PhD, Center for Applied Ethics director at the University of Wisconsin–Stout. Taiyon J. Coleman, PhD, assistant professor of English Literature at St. Catherine University, presented on the topic, ‘One Writer Shares Her Story.’”