REL 494 projects win Undergraduate Symposium awards
Students in REL 494, Advanced Near Eastern and Mediterranean Archaeology, taught by Professor Lynn Swartz Dodd received awards in the 2006 Undergraduate Symposium this April.
Georgiana Nikias, Hannah Marcuson, and Kristin Butler, won first place in the humanities division for their research of ?Khirbet Mazra?a: The Lost Excavation?
Georginana Nikias also won an honorable metion for ?The Lost Shawabti: A Scribe?s Ancient Egyptian Funerary Figurine.?
Religion professor, Lynn Swartz Dodd, was the faculty sponsor for these projects as well as for the Interdisciplinary Award winner, Shaun Lea, who's project was entitled ?Andean Dye Project:The Mysteries of Textiles.?
Each year the Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work provides undergraduates with the unique opportunity to exhibit and share examples of their significant research and creativity with the university community.