2026 Celebration of Scholarship

Week of April 6, 2026

The 2026 Celebration of Scholarship schedule includes a week of live and recordings of scholarly oral and poster presentations by Shawnee State University students, along with two live sessions for those students nominated for the Trustees' Award and Excellence in Humanities Award to share their work.

The campus community and greater public is welcome to attend all presentations!

Please feel free to explore the sessions below to see the excellent scholarship our students have worked on over the last academic year.

Thank you to the following people who helped to make this event possible:

  • President Eric Braun
  • Provost Kimberly Inman
  • Interim Dean Michael Barnhart
  • Dean Jeff Hamilton
  • Interim Dean Adam Miller
  • Dean Christine Raber
  • Director of the Clark Memorial Library Suzanne Johnson-Varney
  • Polly Brown
  • Sandy Duduit
  • Kaleb Kendall
  • Jeremy Reed
  • Kara Stump

    • Finally, and most importantly, thank you to the students and their faculty mentors for their hard work over the last year on these scholarly endeavors!

    Enjoy!

    The Coordinating Committee:

  • JT Ok
  • Erik Larson
  • Wendi Fleeman
  • Leila Lomashvili
  • Paul Madden
  • Alicia Fink
  • Seongcheol Paeng
  • James Reneau
  • Mikel Stone

    • Browse the contents of 2026 Celebration of Scholarship:

    Keynote Address
    Upload submissions here
    Please uploaded abstracts/proposals here for consideration