Associate Professor of Media Arts, Susan Dever, spent many of her Sunday afternoons this fall in the Frontier restaurant talking about presentations with her students. She mentored seven students in film, video and scholarship projects as they prepared to participate in the university’s first annual Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium.
Her students offered presentations in various media. They included Robert Russell, who presented “Blood Only Means What You Let It,” Sarah Wentzel-Fisher, who presented, “Out of the Box, Sifting Through the Celluloid,” Marty Lee Martinez, who presented, “Seasons of Memory,” Sarah Williams, who presented “Reclaiming the Images, Rick Shepardson who presented, “Life is Nonsense: The Conundrum of Art and Sciences,” Ben Popp, who presented “Imagination and Film, and presentations by Alex Andrews and Jeremy Foote.
Dever is the chairperson of the Media Arts Departments. Her prize, the “Tempur-Pedic, ‘You’ve Earned a Nap’ faculty award, was a mattress from the Tempur-Pedic company, one of the founding sponsors of the Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium.
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