LOTS Multidisciplinary Conference 2026 Schedule

Session IA: Natural Sciences Presentation 2 - Extraction of Essential Oils from Cannabis Seeds

Daniel Bennett, Gardner-Webb University

Dover Library Large Conference Room

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Session IA: Natural Sciences Presentation 3 - Review of Dihydroartemisinin and Its Potential as a Neutral Chemotherapeutic

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Matthew McCoy Stowe, Gardner-Webb University

Dover Library Large Conference Room

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Session IA: Natural Sciences Presentation 4 - Morphea Skin Disease

Bella Harding, Gardner-Webb University

Dover Library Large Conference Room

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Session IA: Natural Sciences Presentation 5 - Red Light Therapy: Mechanisms, Benefits, and Emerging Applications

Jada Pittman, Gardner-Webb University

Dover Library Large Conference Room

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Session IB: Undergraduate Roundtable - Ethics Bowl

Issa Cogdell, Gardner-Webb University
Hodges McCathern, Gardner-Webb University
Brock Nikkari, Gardner-Webb University
Maeve McGinley, Gardner-Webb University
Alaena Locklear, Gardner-Webb University
Sophie Boss, Gardner-Webb University

Dover Library Room 103

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Session IIA: Social Sciences Presentation 2 - Women’s Role as Perpetrators of Genocide and Why the Media Doesn’t Portray Them as Such

Bethany Durham, Gardner-Webb University

Dover Library Large Conference Room

3:40 PM - 4:40 PM

Session IIA: Social Sciences Presentation 3 - Press Control and Censorship Throughout the Reign of Terror

Allie Johnson, Gardner-Webb University

Dover Library Large Conference Room

3:40 PM - 4:40 PM

Session IIA: Social Sciences Presentation 4 - Federal Budgeting and Reducing the United States’ Deficit

Katie Westbrook, Gardner-Webb University

Dover Library Large Conference Room

3:40 PM - 4:40 PM

Session IIB: Religious Studies Presentation 1 - Corporate Personality and Sin in the Old Testament

Leanna Tally, Gardner-Webb University

Dover Library Belk-Ellis Lab

3:40 PM - 4:40 PM

Session IIB: Religious Studies Presentation 2 - Battle for the Womb: Reimagining Revelation 12 The Woman Clothed with the Sun Through a Black Womanist Hermeuneutic Lens

Dana Ijames, Gardner-Webb University

Dover Library Belk-Ellis Lab

3:40 PM - 4:40 PM

Session IIB: Religious Studies Presentation 3 - A Black Comparative Religious Study of Christianity and Islam

Brandon K. Richmond, Gardner-Webb University

Dover Library Belk-Ellis Lab

3:40 PM - 4:40 PM

Session IIIA: Education and English Presentation 2 - Fantasy Audiobooks and Medieval Aural Tradition

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Morgan C. Lilly, Gardner-Webb University

Dover Library Room 103

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Session IIIB: Religious Studies Presentation 1 - A Comparison and Analysis of Heaven and Hell in the New Testament, New Testament Apocrypha, and Dante’s Divine Comedy

Carson Ford Gruber, Gardner-Webb University

Dover Library Belk-Ellis Lab

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Session IIIB: Religious Studies Presentation 2 - Unchanging Gospel Message, Changing Context: Contextualization Strategies in Lukan Paul, Irenaeus, and Althanasius

Joy Axelsson, Gardner-Webb University

Dover Library Belk-Ellis Lab

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Session IIIB: Religious Studies Presentation 3 - Hospitality in an Old Testament Lens

Avery Marie Sharpe, Gardner-Webb University

Dover Library Belk-Ellis Lab

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM