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Morgan Webb
  • biology
  • Class of 2017
  • York, Pa.

Morgan Webb Presents Scientific Research at Disappearing Boundaries

2015 Jul 27

Morgan Webb joined 32 other Lebanon Valley College students who presented their scientific work at the sixth annual Disappearing Boundaries Summer Research Meeting on Thursday, July 17 at the College's Neidig-Garber Science Center. Webb, of York, Pa., is pursuing a bachelor of science in biology at The Valley. Webb is a graduate of Central York High School.

The annual event is designed to uniquely blend students and faculty with their counterparts from other institutions and disciplines. The meeting, brainchild of Lebanon Valley's Dr. Wally Patton, has become a collaboration of Central Pennsylvania colleges, including Albright, Dickinson, and Elizabethtown. Core to the concept is the idea that science benefits from networking, even amongst a myriad of scientific disciplines.

At the meeting, the Neidig-Garber Science Center was taken over by student and faculty research projects, much of the work recently completed. The summer, being a period in which lack of academic obligations allow for more research, is the perfect time for researchers to share their progress with their contemporaries.

However, project exhibition is only part of the meeting, which includes guest speakers at the start and end of the day as well as discipline specific breakout sessions. The speakers at this year's meeting included two Lebanon Valley College graduates, Phillip P. Domeier '10 and Seth Polydore '13. Although all speakers at Disappearing Boundaries meetings are chosen for their scientific prowess, Patton and his team try to track down recent graduates in order to better connect to current students.