UM student, Savannah Whitefield, recognized by COPLAC

The Southeast Regional Undergraduate Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activities Conference was hosted by UVA-Wise April 21-22. Six COPLAC campuses were represented at the conference, five in person and one at a distance.

COPLAC’s undergraduate conferences are interdisciplinary experiences where students can connect with colleagues across disciplines in addition to their own fields. Not only do the presentation sessions span the disciplines, with art history and chemistry majors presenting alongside each other, but many of the research projects presented by students are interdisciplinary themselves.

For instance, Savannah Whitefield, Psychology major from University of Montevallo, presented research on “Demographic Predictors of Inmate Early Release.”…